Popular culture

Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. The most common pop culture categories are: entertainment (movies, music, TV), sports, news (as in people/places in news), politics, fashion/clothes, technology, and slang.

Popular culture is often viewed as being trivial and "dumbed down" in order to find consensual acceptance throughout the mainstream. As a result, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources (most notably religious groups and countercultural groups) which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, or corrupt.

History and definitions

The term "popular culture" was coined in the 19th century or earlier. Traditionally, popular culture was associated with poor education and the lower classes, as opposed to the "official culture" and higher education of the upper classes.

Pop

Pop may refer to:

Common meanings

People

Places

Entertainment

Publishing

Television

Products

Video games

Music

Culture

Culture (/ˈkʌltʃər/) is, in the words of E.B. Tylor, "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."

Cambridge English Dictionary states that culture is, "the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time."Terror Management Theory posits that culture is a series of activities and worldviews that provide humans with the illusion of being individuals of value in a world meaning—raising themselves above the merely physical aspects of existence, in order to deny the animal insignificance and death that Homo Sapiens became aware of when they acquired a larger brain.

Ardian Bujupi

Ardian Bujupi (born 27 April 1991) is a Kosovar Albanian singer-songwriter. Bujupi rose to fame when he finished third in the eighth season of the German talent show Deutschland sucht den Superstar in 2011.

Early life

Bujupi was born in Pristina, Kosovo (then part of SFR Yugoslavia) to Kosovar Albanian parents. His family moved to Germany in 1992/1993. He was raised there and attended his primer and high school in Heidelberg.

Career

2011: Deutschland sucht den Superstar

Bujupi decided to enter the eighth series of DSDS and successfully passed the first phases of the show and made it to the live shows. He was in the bottom three times but was saved by the public in all occasions. Although he became a huge favorite to win the show, he finished third, behind Sarah Engels and Pietro Lombardi who was declared as the winner.

2011-2012

Just a few months after DSDS, Ardian released his first single "This is my time", penned in English which became a huge hit on the radios and social networks, counting more than a million views over a week. He later released "Rise to the Top" and "I'm Feeling Good", all which had the same success as his first single.