In This is Emo, Klosterman discusses the effect on people based off of romantic couples in the popular culture that we experience. It is obvious today that when people watch movies or read books, they get hooked on not only characters, but even their personalities and their every moves; including relationships. While reading this article, it is well brought up that the people in our society fall more in love with fictional characters in movies than their real relationships. Klosterman talks about his girlfriend who really loved John Cusack more. This is Emo discusses models the same way that Sulking with Lisa Loeb does.
In Sulking with Lisa Loeb, it is written the people in generations play a huge part in this need to be like our popular culture. A huge example in this article is Star Wars. When people saw Star Wars for the first time, they loved Luke Skywalker. They saw him as a real person instead of a fictional character in some weird movie. They saw him as someone else that related to their lives. This also relates to This is Emo because both articles of popular culture connected to the reality of people and how they see themselves or want their lives to be. Whether they connect to someone like Luke Skywalker or want a boyfriend like John Cusack, popular culture in this reaction, affected the population greatly.
It's kind of crazy how popular culture tends to run our lives. I liked your examples on how the articles showed that.
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