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Ali, Lorraine. "Same Old Song." Newsweek 136.15 (2000): 68. Print.

Same Old Song discusses the impact of pop music on today’s culture in the United States. It emphasizes the target of pop music, which seems to be the adolescence and how it’s supposedly meant to cause trouble to those who are older. It also suggests that other genres such as hip-hop and rap are soon to be no longer.

Mayer, Vicki. "Pop Goes the World." Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media & Composite Cultures 11.2 (2001): 309-24. Print.

Pop Goes the World focuses on young girls and the pop culture presented by pop music lately. There is references to what girls consider to be the definition of pop music and the amount of upcoming and new female pop artist and how they affect the girls in which their music is generally directed to. 

Strauss, Neil. "The Year that Pop Lost Popularity." New York Times 152.52344 (2002): E1. Print.

In this article, it actually goes back on all that the other articles and essay that i have chosen seem to be saying. The Year that Pop Lost Popularity is exactly as the title reads. It speaks on how the pop genre is no longer what it used to be and other genres such as country and surprisingly hip-hop are now become the majority of what’s liked.

Vuolo, Mike, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. "Taste Clusters of Music and Drugs: Evidence from Three Analytic Levels." British Journal of Sociology 65.3 (2014): 529-54. Print.

This article takes a direct correlation between the use of drugs and the music that has become the main thing that adolescents tend to listen to in todays time period. Emphasizing how the music genres of Rock and Hip-hop have the largest influence on the steady increase of drug use. The article also includes the type of music that does not really affect the statistics, these genres include pop and religious.