You can sing the word "Monoculture" to the chorus of "Womanizer"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://idolator.com/5091067/bye-bye-bye-what-weve-learned-from-pops-trl-era

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[koganbot]

Well, what might be "monocultural" about Britney is that people who barely knew anything about her were still willing to define themselves against each other. I remember a man whose writer's group I was about to join telling me that Britney represented the emptiness of culture, and he hastened to add that he'd never actually heard her music. And in '01 or so the major Denver art's festival touted itself in its promotional literature and banner as being an alternative to Britney Spears.

Which of course means the monoculture is not dead!

[koganbot]

One reason I don't trust Andrew Sullivan is that he considers Britney and Paris to be cultural detritus (in comparison to Obama, who'd basically been abandoned by his parents and through application and intelligence worked his way up to heading the law review at Harvard etc.).

[koganbot]

The word "detritus" being telling in this context, since it literally means debris, fragments, loose particles, and derives from the Latin term for "wearing away."