In Ben Aslinger’s “Nip/Tuck: Popular Music,” Aslinger explores the usage of popular mainstream music that helps shape the form of the program “Nip/Tuck,” with the culture and aesthetics. He mainly explains how the music works in such scenes involving performing surgery on patients, such as how the meanings from the songs are twisted in a way that fit the narrative of the show. While there are shows like “Mad Men” that showcase 1960’s songs to create a mood of that particular era, the songs in the surgery scenes from “Nip/Tuck” are presented in a diegetic form, meaning that the characters can actually hear the music. This can be seen when Sean McNamara, one of the main characters, turns on the Bang & Olufsen stereo playing “Paint It Black” by
