Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could be as well adjusted as Melinda's family, but he would have had to be medicated to pursue her list of pleasures.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.