Popular Culture
- In 2000, R&B singer Sisqó recorded the "Thong Song" on his Unleash the Dragon album.
- Writer-director Glen Weiss made three movies titled the Thong Girl, based on the comic book of the same name. The story of the films revolved around the Thong Girl, an independent superhero. Parts of the film were shot in Nashville's mayor's office in 2007.
- Beermaker Rolling Rock aired a commercial poking fun of male thong wearers during Super Bowl XLI.
- Shefali Zariwala, a model in India, became known as the "thong girl" for her performance in the music video of the song Kaanta Laga. The album sold two million copies and the music video became an overnight success in India.
- In 2008, a diamond studded thong worth US$122,000 was featured in a Singapore lingerie fashion show. It had 518 brilliant-cut diamonds, totaling 30 carats (6.0 g), studded into the front of a black lace thong in a floral pattern, as well as 27 white gold tassels hanging off it.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)