What do Lady Gaga and the economy have in common? According to the Internet, more than you might imagine. Lady Gaga is among the artists supposedly at the forefront of 2025’s boom of “recession pop,” ...

To some, Recession Pop is more than music. It is an economic signal. First rising during the 2008 downturn, the upbeat, glittery pop sound is resurging as Gen Z faces its own financial anxieties. But ...

It was inevitable nostalgia cycles would eventually land on the recession pop of the late 2000s. Nowadays there are overt indie sleaze merchants like Feng and Fakemink running around, but you can hear ...