Not all Pop Culture is Bad

Not all popular culture such as rap is trash. Rap artist common is praised by billboard.com saying,” The socially conscious rapper formerly known as Common Sense has been drawing respect for his honest and colorful street poetry ever since his debut in the early 1990s.” Common is following the same trend as Langston Hughes by writing poetry about the things he sees around him. Screen writer M. Night Shyamalan uses symbolism and foreshadowing and literary twists that are brought to life in movie form. These are all things that one would find in a novel or poetry compilations. This is no more trash than the things that preceded this modern “trash”. These modern linguists merely imitate those who have come before them. Unconventionality is not trash but simply a different approach at the same thing.