Remember 2012?

By: Serena

There's no doubt that "Gangnam Style" has dominated 2012; but what were the other trends in 2012? Well, that's why I'm here to tell you.

                   Music

     There were many great songs last year. Many were so memorable. This includes Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Getting Back Together", Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe", "Die Young" from Ke$ha, Bruno Mars's "Locked Out of Heaven", Justin Bieber's "Beauty and a Beat", Fun's "Some Nights", and last but not least One Direction's "One Thing", "Live While We're Young", and "Little Things". But tune in to the Grammy's on February 10, 2013 for some awesome performances and see who wins what.

                                                                              Word Up                

"Swag" was a commonly used term, except no one really knows what it means. The proper definition for "swag" is actutally an ornamenatal festoon of flowers, fruit, and greenery. So when people say, "I got swag", they're really saying," I have a decorative bouquet of flowers". Or in other words, they can also be saying,"I got Edible Arrangments" if they were talking about fruit. Another abbreviation that people were using was "YOLO"; which stands for "you only live once". When "The Motto" came out by Drake feat. Lil Wayne and Tyga, people on Twitter were tweeting things such as, "Didn't do my science project #YOLO" or,"Gonna try to go on #16&Pregnant!#YOLO." This "motto" was basically an excuse for people to do stupid things. But thankfully some people took the motto to experience something that will benefit them, instead of trying to get themselves killed.   

                                          Fashion

Fashion in 2012 was a twist of 80's and 90's fashion. This includes light colored jeans, crop tops, the Aztec pattern, cropped jean jackets, and combat boots. As for the guys, baggy pants, hats and caps, and varsity jackets were in style.

                                                         TV Shows

Shows such as X Factor, Pretty Little Liars, The Simpsons, Modern Family, Glee and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo were favoured in 2012. But unfortunately, Jersey Shore ended.

Sports

The San Francisco Giants won again last year. We won 2 years before and before that we won in 1954. And for this year, we are going to the Superbowl. We'll be going against the Saints on February 3, 2013. Make sure you cross your fingers!

K-Pop vs. J-Pop: Coming to America?

     You probably have heard Psy's "Gangnam Style" recently. He has been in the K-Pop(Korean Popular music) industry for quite a while now. But have you ever heard of J-Pop? J-Pop is short for Japanese popular music .
 Now that "Gangnam Style" has come out, K-Pop and J-Pop is slowly coming over to America.
     "I think that K-Pop and J-Pop should come to America because American pop music is getting kind of boring." a source says. While another source says, " I think that K-Pop and J-Pop should stay in Asia because we can't even understand it!"
      A popular group of J-Pop is called AKB48. They have hit record sales in 2011 of over $200 million in Japan. They also have a total of 91 members! WoW! But can K-Pop compete with that? Well, with the group" Girl's Generation", the  K-Pop industry may have something going on. But it'll be up to America to decide if K-Pop or J-Pop will make charts here.