When President Donald Trump was asked about the possibility of the U.S. economy heading into a recession during a March ...

Kesha just released a new single with T-Pain titled Yippee-Ki-Yay, and it's recapturing that recession pop vibe. You know, those upbeat, dancey bops from the late 2000s and early 2010s when ...

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Though a retroactively coined term used to prescribe that era’s reign of club-ready music, “recession pop” has gained a second life in the present. Online, people heralded Kesha’s latest ...

Some prime examples of recession pop are “Tik ToK” by Kesha (2010) , “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” by Usher (2010), “Party in the USA” by Miley Cyrus (2009), “Club Can’t Handle Me ...

recession pop is back—-just listen to Kesha and T-Pain’s latest single “Yikkee Ki-Yay” or Lady Gaga’s new album Mayhem, both of which have been heralded as recession pop’s heirs.