Yumi Zouma, "Right, Off The Bridge"

Our brief flirtation with economic collapse brings to mind an always-interesting three-drink question: If the various networked tradebots were to blow up the markets right now, setting of some sort of chain reaction that pundits would assure us was obvious in retrospect, which music would get dropped from the public consciousness? Are there genres or sounds that thrive at six percent unemployment but die at ten? Does all this great dreamy electronica seem silly, then? Does…nu metal come back? Guess we’ll have to wait a little longer to find out.