The Culture Industry (with examples)

'Assembly Line Character'- 2008, X Factor runner's up, JLS are an example of this. Below are some of JLS' products.



'The idea of the culture industry to a model of mass culture'
Here we see that the capitalist corporation being the X Factor/Epic records has control over this group as we see their image/genre/style/songs have changed over the course of their music journey.

'Assembly Line'

These are all boy bands and they are basically all the same because they all appeal to women, are all commercial and have pop-orientated music.