Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.
I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.
In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia.
Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual purs...
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
