The music industry is an industry that is making billions of dollars a year. This is largely due to the impact of pop culture on music. Nowadays there are many different types of media that exemplify pop culture. Pop culture is marketed directly to American youth through the medium of large network television channels. These channels in turn tell millions of teenagers how to look, what to listen to and how to act hip.
             With the uprising of MTV,VH1, and BET, viewers have decided that the only way to be trendy and cool is to be in style. These stations have broken away from just playing music videos to doing just about everything else. The reality genre is huge and has almost taken over MTV, showing celebrity's houses, living in a house with seven strangers, and watching a newly wedded celebrity couple's first months of marriage. If it wasn't for music though, we would not have any of these channels. Music and dance play such an integral role in pop culture, and fans tend to idolize their favorite stars. This creates an important role for these celebrities to play, they themselves become an image. Their influence is widespread, and they are routinely copied immediately after they say, wear, or do something. For example, when Jessica Simpson wore her Ugg boots on her new show, Newlyweds, they became an instant trend, becoming impossible to find and making my girlfriend desperate for a pair. Music's role in pop culture is fascinating, and through this research project I want to find out if the genre of music that one listens to affects their viewing choice in music television stations (or if they watch any at all) and if that has a clear link to the following of the latest trends.
             A literature is difficult to do for my topic. It is hard to find scholarly sources that relate to my subject; you don't find to many journals or books about pop culture relating to pop music. I decided to search M...