Recession Core

It’s July 2007. Timbaland drops “The Way I Are” featuring Keri Hilson and D.O.E. Grammar ticks aside, the track tops charts worldwide with its catchy confession of connection under financial stress: “ If I have no money, no car, no card to buy you flowers – will you still like me, just the way I are? ” An eerie foreshadowing of the Great Recession ... See more

Fast forward to November 2014. The global economy is still under damage control. I had just graduated high school when Pitbull and Ne-Yo released “Time Of Our Lives”, the lead single from Mr. Worldwide’s eighth album, titled Globalization . Debuting on Billboard’s Hot 100, the duo describe scraping their last funds to party with the lyrics: “ This ... See more

We are entering what some online commentators call a ‘Silent Depression’ – an age marked by an inability to call things as they are, despite truly dire financial circumstances, so it makes sense that we’re seeing this reflected in our music. Periods of recession have typically always been defined by music with faster, frenetic melodies and a hooky ... See more