Haley Lu Richardson Quotes

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

A song's lyrics can't be held culprit for the overall change in society.

Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.

I consider 'Dope' a part of the new mainstream.

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'

The Cold War was over, presidential sex scandals superseded foreign concerns, and the American public was more interested in reading about fiendish serial killers, dependable mystery series protagonists, and any book thought to be in the vein of Bridget Jones and her abbreviation-happy diary.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

One thing I've realized is that being a nerd has transformed. I like that it's easier to read comic books and, like, 'Lord of the Rings' now. You don't have to get punched in the chest in the gym locker room for that anymore.

There used to be a few 'Great Santinis', but now there's many 'Great Santinis'.

Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.

The Internet has essentially democratized the music industry in terms of what is popular and it's democratized the music journalism industry as well.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

Black culture - we dance and sing. We're entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like us.

The arrival of 'Star Wars' signalled the full absorption of the former counterculture into a new mainstream.

I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.

I'm glad that nowadays people are aware of varied dance genres, thanks to reality TV dance shows.

The crazy thing about the dab is like - dance moves, once you create them, they last forever.

I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

Anytime something makes money, no matter how outré, it's instantly mainstream. A good example is rock 'n' roll. When rock 'n' roll was first played to a wide audience it was considered the devil's music.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear