Monday, August 13, 2007

It's A Given, Pop Culture Style

On the Monday morning broadcast of "It Is What It Is" (which airs on Sports Radio 1130 WDFN) host Sean Baligian did a segment called It's A Given. For the segment, he asked listeners to chime in with things that are inevitable in the sports world (for example, one emailer said that it's a given that the Detroit Pistons will make it to the Eastern Conference Finals every year).

I decided to run with the "It's A Given" idea and apply it to the world of pop culture. Below are some pop culture-related things that you can count on happening, just like the sun rising every morning.

1. A week will not go by without a member of young Hollywood having a run-in with the law.

2. A reality dating show will have a token black contestant, who will be gone within 2 weeks (sorry Lakeisha, no rose for you).

3. Will Smith will star in a movie that will debut at #1 at the box office. In a side note, Kevin Costner will star in a film that won't.

4. MTV's lineup will be dominated by programming that has little (if anything) to do with music.

5. Every few years a "new" Tupac CD will be released.

What are some of your pop culture "givens"?

3 comments:

Taj said...

Puffy will change his name again.

A rapper will "retire" and then release a comeback 2 years later.

An actor/actress will win an Oscar for their hype not their acting.

Someone will become famous every 6 months for sleeping with someone famous.

One could really go on and on with this! And #2 and #5 had me nodding in complete agreement! I was just talking about them both the other day.

Anonymous said...

It's a given that at least every other month some incident will occur that causes Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or Gloria Allred to slither out from under their prospective rocks.

Malcolm said...

Hi Taj: You are right... this could go on and on. I may revisit it somewhere down the line.

Your "givens" are pretty good. The one about people winning Oscars for hype and not ability makes me think of when Julia Roberts won for Erin Brockovich.

Pjazzy: Good call on those publicity hounds you listed.

 
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