Friday, 10 December 2010

Essay title...

I think my personal favourite lectures and sessions so far have been on Popular culture and also the Gaze. I think they seem to interlink quite well though not sure this is possible within an essay.

The one I will probably be able to get the most excited about and read most about would probably be popular culture as I have, since then, questioned this consumerist culture a lot and why we feel the need to constantly have the new stuff yet with this fall in line with everyone else around us... do we actually want to be like everyone else? or are we fooling ourselves into being individual. Are there deeper meanings into why we chose things, what we listen to or watch?
I think I want to prove Adorno wrong, though, I'm not sure that will be entirely possible.
I'm not one to spend loads of money on stuff but I am a sucker sometimes and have a tendency to feel that I NEED something then a few months later forget why I needed it.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Popular music video


Sadly I had to shame myself and search You tube for the X factors most recent single 'heroes' which I feel epitomises Adorno's description and hatred of popular music. The chords are all the same. The sequence is the same... theres a classic build up and of course it sticks in your head, which seems to be the most common denominator of most pop songs.

A classic.