In pop culture, 2016 was a year of genre mashing and unexpected collisions
From Deadpool to OJ: Made in America, Hamilton to Sturgill Simpson, 2016 was a year of some pretty rich and unexpected pop-culture. But there’s one element many of the phenomena had in common: they all combined realms that had rarely lived together before. History met hip-hop, a TV series about a case was actually an epic work of cinema about race, heady songs on astrophysics took the form of country music and a raunchy R-rated comedy came dressed in superhero clothing. What the genre-mashing, form-bashing year told us about the state (and possibilities) of mass culture, and how other creations could further shapeshift in the year ahead.
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