I read today that my company has hired an expert on pop culture to go to fashion week and blog about it. It made me wonder how does one become a pop culture expert, exactly? Is there an actual POP CULTURE Degree?!? Is it a bit of modern marketing BS? It really made me go Hum.
I decided to Google it, because I thought hum… I could do that job. No, really, I could.
The answer, in a word… is No. You don’t need a degree*. You just need an internet connection.
How to become a Pop Culture Expert…
Thus, I hereby declare myself a Pop Culture Expert. I have an internet connection. (You can pay me the big bucks now!)
*I did google pop culture degree – there are actually universities and colleges offering pop culture degrees. It looks like it’s a MASTER’s Degree, and requires a Bachelor’s of Arts. So, I while you may not “technically” need one to call yourself a pop culture expert – if you want that piece of paper, I guess you could get it.
I did try to make you lot as fashionable as one could but for the first time in my 40-year-long-spanning career, after trying everything listed in the Andy Warhol’s guide to cool, I have come to admit that some brands are simply un-pop-able.
Please accept my resignation.
Best,
(very frustrated) Pop culture Expert
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Couldn’t they have sent, I DON’T KNOW, one of the fashion category managers? Or any one of the talented, smart, funny folks already working there? LIKE YOU! Or the Dean of Education/Radio King, maybe? I would have paid money to read either of those.
I don’t care about some pop culture EXPERT’S opinion of fashion week – everyone knows it’s ALL FLUFF. But fashion week from a real person’s perspective? THAT would be interesting.