Pop Culture: Reflecting America or Shaping It?

Pop culture reflects current events happening in our society. Pop culture is the main way we entertain ourselves. The things that become popular are only popular because mass amounts of people like them. Through the decades, fads have come and gone, celebrities have faltered, and genres of music and movies have been built up and torn down. The people will entertain themselves with what they want, and always find new ways to do it. Pop culture reflects what is happening in society because people need both distractions from bad things that are happening, and reminders that the good things are there.