Characteristically, popular music is a global cultural phenomenon and an accessible form of commercial music aimed at a worldwide audience. ... Studies of popular music encompass a range of approaches from musicological, whereby music is commonly analyzed as a text, to sociological, which tends to focus on the social uses of popular music and the dynamic and interactive relationship between popular music, culture, and society. ... The electric guitar's sound was increasingly distorted and modified and led to genres such as heavy metal and punk, which entailed a do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos ...

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Now within these different mediums come different pop culture icons such as MTV, Cosmopolitan, and The New York Times. ... Whether it be a music video that subconsciously influences us, or a little quiz we take in Cosmopolitan, to see if our lover is compatible with us, it is obvious that many of us turn to these mediums for answers, sometimes without even realizing that they are affecting us. ...

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