The year is 2008, and the Great Recession has settled in. With the bursting of the housing bubble, the collapse of major investment banks like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, as well as the rise in ...

When the realities of life get hard, does music get ... happy? “Recession pop” is currently trending as people reach for the music of the mid-2000s for a mood boost. And you know what? It worked.

Defining “popular music” is the easy part. The study uses the lyrics to 353,320 English-language songs sourced from Genius.com, released in the years 1970 to 2020 and belonging to the most popular ...

All-night-long parties, bonfires and whiskey, belting karaoke: In their new single, Kesha and T-Pain may have single-handedly heralded the return of recession pop. “Yippee-Ki-Yay," released March 27, ...

Whether it's lipstick sales or buy-now-pay-later initiatives on food, speculation about potential recession indicators is at a high. And now, another has entered the mix: recession pop. Hinging on ...

As music becomes more accessible, new indie artists have started to adapt the qualities of whatever is popular at the moment to attain more engagement and clicks. But when indie artists start to ...

Here, two ELLE editors (one of whom is a former opera major!) discuss Rosalía’s bold new work, her religious inspirations, and why it might be the best album of 2025. I joke all the time about, “If I ...

Over the course of the past seven years since she first exploded into stardom with “Mooo!,” Doja Cat has proven to be a musical chameleon, equally willing to dive into bluesy R&B as she is aggressive ...

In her 25 years in the Christian music industry, Holly Zabka, president of Provident — a Sony subsidiary dedicated to Christian music — has never encountered a moment of such prominence for the genre.