Trends

Trends in popular American culture

There have been trends in pop culture every since America was founded, any time an activity or a lifestyle becomes popular people want to follow it. In the sixties it was rock and roll and going along with that was the “Make love not war“ mentality, in the seventies there was Disco and all the sycadelic sounds of it. Disco was mainly an American phenomenon with its origins in Soul, Blues and Jazz music. It spawned a variety of radio stations and TV shows, New York city’s WPIX-FM was the first disco radio station. The disco trend became even more popular after the release of the box office movie Saturday night fever in 1977 which became one of the best selling soundtracks of all time (www.en.wikipedia.org, 2004).

Some popular trends of the eighties were Rubik’s cube (which I enjoyed a lot), video games, along with new cartoons like GI Joe and the Transformers (which are still popular today), aerobics also surged in popularity, this trend reached across exercise videos, fashion, and even music like Olivia Newton-John’s music video Let’s Get Physical. The movie Flash dance inspired legwarmers as a fashion trend. Nike sneakers with Members only Jackets and my favorite “Raybans” were also popular trends in fashion in the Eighties (www.en.wikipedia.org, 4-7-08).

Popular trends of the nineties included such things as High top fades, baggy pants, and huge gold chains. Adidas sneakers and Carl Kani clothing were very big fashion trends of the nineties. There were also TV shows like Seinfeld which has been voted by many to be the best show of the �90s, and even controversial shows like Bevis and butthead. Reality shows like MTV and the real world also became popular in the �90s and are still popular today (www.thepeoplehistory.com, 2007).

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