Yahoo

What is 'recession pop' — and why is it making a comeback? New music from Kesha, Lady Gaga signals return to 'escapist pop bangers.'

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 ...
CNN

Pop music is messier — for the better — because of Chappell Roan, Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter

This year brought us new albums from some of the biggest artists in the world: Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift all put out music that thrilled fans. And yet some of the most ...
Digital Journal

Catching up with Lay Zhang: ‘Step’ album and the digital age

Chinese pop artist Lay Zhang. Photo Courtesy of Warner Music China. Chinese pop artist Lay Zhang. Photo Courtesy of Warner Music China. M-pop recording artist Lay Zhang chatted about his new album ...
Today

What is ‘recession pop’? Why people are reaching for music from the mid-2000s

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.
NPR

Pop music from the late 2000s is back — as 'recession pop'

You may have heard of recession meals and wardrobes. Now, we have "recession pop" - bangers from 2008-2010 gaining popularity with a younger audience. Let me take you back to the fall of 2008. The ...
NPR

A new wave of pop songs are drawing on music you might hear at church

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Yahoo News entertainment reporter, Kelsey Weekman, about a spate of new pop songs that draw on worship traditions in megachurches. ALEX WARREN: (Singing) They say the ...
CBS News

Dua Lipa knows pop music isn't always taken seriously. The singer has no problem with that.

This is an updated version of a story first published on Sept. 15, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. Plenty of teenagers want to become pop stars, but few convince their parents to let them ...
American Songwriter

The Story and Meaning Behind “Pop Muzik,” an Early Synth-Pop Standard by M

The late 1970s was one of the wildest eras ever in music, as genres formed and imploded with random, rapid flair. In 1979, “Pop Muzik” seemed to anticipate the decade to come in the way that it melded ...
Variety

The 10 Pop-Music Documentaries I Most Wish Someone Would Make

A few, like “Amy” or “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?,” are popular and vital enough to have carved out a place in the culture — and, in the case of both those films, to have inspired ...
The New York Times

The First Movie About Pop Music to Nail Its Mediocrity

This summer’s “Trap,” from M. Night Shyamalan, works hard to turn its fictional star — and her fans — into heroes. By Robert Rubsam Last fall, I went with friends to see a popular British rock band at ...
The New Yorker

The Summer of Girly Pop

Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is just what it ...