How Would Pop Culture Be Role Models

How would pop culture be defined? Firstly, what is pop culture? The official definition of pop culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images, and other phenomena within the mainstream of a given culture. In the center of pop culture lies entertainment, and entertainment is provided and displayed by people known as celebrities. Why are they the center of pop-culture? Well that’s because celebrities consist of actors, musicians, and much more. A celebrity is someone who has received popular fame and attention from the media. Do these people, known as celebrities, make good role models?
Why on earth would we look up to
a celebrity? Well for one they are constantly on the news, or in our social media feeds, so why wouldn’t we want to know everything about them? When we see people in the limelight, we are often star-struck, this would lead us to have our own judgment clouded. If our judgment is clouded then how would we know how what is good and bad? If fame and fortune makes someone perfect then why aren’t celebrities living their lives perfectly as they should be. When people are seen in places of high regards, it’s not uncommon for those below them to see those above through rose-colored glasses. This term means to see something in an extremely optimistic way, meaning our admiration can often cloud our judgment.
The notion right now that celebrities are good role models is false, but celebrities do indeed have a great potential to be great role models.
Many celebrities today are on the media, not just on TV shows or movies, but also as representatives and sponsors for companies. This causes them to have a very major influence on both older and younger generations alike. Much power is held over individuals’ lifestyle and well-being, if this was used for the greater good than they could be great role models. Celebrities like Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, and Justin Bieber control the youth, the media focus on them opens the inevitable possibility of the younger generation copying
them.
An appropriate example that could be given, as for the copying of celebrities actions, would in fact be Justin Bieber.
In the entirety of his career his clothing style and attitude has been copied by many teenage boys across the United States of America. He, and many other musical artists have been known to partake in the smoking of marijuana and the drinking of alcohol. This is partly the reason that many teenagers are going into these dark places and doing such actions, the songs of the artists they listen to promote these self-harming acts and it encourages them to partake in it. Of course it would be a very ignorant thing to say that all celebrities are bad role models, for that is not the
case.

Celebrities have also been known to do good things, from dropping football contracts to make food for the poor, to donating 50% of their total income to charities, and adopting children from countries that are struggling. Often celebrities can give hope, resilience, and a voice to weaker to people. They all have the opportunity to have a positive effect on society, and some of them take that opportunity. Every time they are given an interview, or they appear at an award show, or they have their picture taken, they need to conduct themselves accordingly, and act as above reproach. The effect they have is a lot stronger than most of them realize.
To ask if celebrities are good role models is to ask if fruit is rotten or not. Every celebrity is different, they all act differently, and they all conduct themselves in different ways. Certain celebrities can ruin the majority of a generation, others can do the incredible feet of building that generation back up. What it comes down to, is the maturity and self-confidence of a celebrity, if a celebrity is mature enough to handle of the media attention of the press than odds are they can be a good role model. If they are cannot than they can have a very negative effect on society. Certain celebrities are good role models, certain celebrities are not good role models. Are celebrities good role models? It depends on which celebrity you are looking at.