Recession Pop: The Sound of Economic Turmoil - The Gryphon

Recession Pop: The Sound of Economic Turmoil - The Gryphon

Several months ago Lady Gaga’s seventh studio album Mayhem was announced, provoking pandemonium amongst the long-dormant community of ‘Little Monsters’ far and wide. The fanbase arose from over a decade of inactivity to embrace the not-so-new ‘recession pop’ sound of the singles, proclaiming that pop, is indeed, back.   An unlikely term intertwining the somewhat discordant topics of music and economics, Recession Pop can be defined as pop music …