golden age pop 2025-09-13T15:45:32Z

Rain lashed against my apartment windows last Thursday, turning Manhattan into a gray smear of disappointment. I'd just bombed a client pitch—my third this month—and the silence in my loft felt like a physical weight. Scrolling mindlessly through Spotify's algorithmically generated "mood boosters" only deepened the funk; every autotuned chorus and synthetic beat grated like nails on a chalkboard. Modern pop had become sonic fast food, all empty calories and no soul. That's when my thumb stumbled

play 107Remember when Pop Music was King? When Britney, Backstreet, Mariah, Spice Girls, *NSYNC, Destiny’s Child, and Rihanna ruled the charts and airwaves? We do.