YES! this articulates something I've been thinking but couldn't put into words. you could get the song/movie/etc hyper-personalized to you, but most people won't care. pop culture is a promise that you aren't listening/watching alone.
We therefore owe it to ourselves to try to reconcile the inside and outside views. Because let's not flatter ourselves: we believe crazy things too. We just have a hard time seeing them as crazy.