Have you ever been watching your favorite music video when suddenly a little MTV logo pops into to the corner of the screen? If so you have been a witness to one of the most influential devices of "pop" culture. MTV has influenced and supported pop culture by providing new trends in music, dress, and many other facets of pop culture. The smallest pieces of advertising can often be the most influential. As you can see, MTV intends to interrupt any programming just to catch the viewer's eyes and put a label what is going on. This advertising concept is not new, and chances are, parents of today's teenagers were distracted by the same MTV logo while watching music videos between March of 1981 and now. In many cases, when something works it is kept, and that is exactly what MTV did with their logo.
             The MTV logo is a symbol of the American way of life in the form of music, style, and important decisions. People have looked to MTV to provide them with new ideas for many years. These ideas have been anything from style, such as the recent mesh hat trend; to music, where would punk rock be without MTV? Just to think, MTV has been a way of life since the 80's. When watching MTV it is hard to not recognize style; it is everywhere! Any program that airs on MTV is cast with youthful people that set trends while portraying the "typical" teenager and/or college student. When MTV's targeted audience watches programming, everything from the way a person has their pants rolled up, to the way a certain girl wears her hair, the fashion statements are observed and duplicated across the nation. MTV programming helps any teenager and/or college student relate to what they are seeing and learn everything they can, including dress, communication (in the form of slang), music taste, etc. From what a viewer sees in the form of fashion trends, they can adjust their wardrobe to look like the "cool guy or pretty girl...