PSY's parody of the new materialism and the behaviour he saw around him was subtle and thus lost on the vast majority of listeners, particularly the new international fandom. ... - How does the Frankfurt School theory of culture industry apply to K-pop? ... Because of such reliance on commodified art, Adorno wrote that the consuming public had lost the ability to be discerning of issues that could possibly deserve attention – due to their inability to critically assess their situation as it is so much simpler to be docile and accept the imposed status quo. He wrote about how the cu...

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