Generations of Pop Culture

     Pop culture back in the day was more interesting and better then it is now. Back when my grandmother and grandfather were my age, in around 1965, pop culture was full of mainly musicians. These musicians include, some of my favorites, The Seekers, Cilla Black, The Animals, Dusty Springfield, The Ronettes, and The Beatles. The Grateful Dead was trending in 1965 at the time because they played their first ever concert in San Francisco. Also a few popular films like The Sound of Music, The Beatles Help!, and Mary Poppins were released. One thing I find interesting which can be part of pop culture, since smoking cigarettes was a thing and commercials back then always made it look fun and good for you, was that the UK banned cigarette commercials on TV.

The Ronettes

The Rolling Stones

     Moving up from that generation, my dad when he was 17, in 1990, pop culture was still big in music with people such as Mariah Carey, The B-52's, Vanilla Ice, Aerosmith, Billy Joel (one of my favorites, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Whitney Houston, and so on. A huge thing that had hit pop culture was when Milli Vanilli's producer had announced that the duo had been lip syncing and not even using their own voices on the recording albums. Movies like Edward Scissorhands and Home Alone were also released.

Foo Fighters

Stone Temple Pilots

     Now when my mom was 17, in 1999, pop culture had changed even more. More music that I do prefer to listen to quite often was introduced like Korn, Blink 182, Limp Bizkit, Foo Fighters and so on. There was still "pop" singers like Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys, Eminem, Cher,etc. Much better TV shows were a big thing in this year like South Park (childhood favorite), The Simpsons, That 70's Show, etc. Also in 1999, my favorite movies like American Pie, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, and Austin Powers came out.

Britney Spears

       I have noticed pop culture for the different years all have lots of famous musicians in common. It was one of the biggest things and still is to this day. I am not really surprised other than the fact of how all these popular things have brought us our own generation today.