Remember Shuffle

Raise Your Glass-Stegal, tonight’s the night, this podcast episode will go on forever, but it’s also the last podcast of your life. Remember Shuffle regular Colette Shade joins us to talk about the culture of the Great Recession: Recession Pop, Stomp Clap, the Death of Bling Rap, DIY, Prepping, Indiesleaze, and so much more—forget the banking executives, let’s do a people’s history of the Great Recession.
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Articles mentioned in the episode:
This shitty vice article on how no pop acts responded to the Great Recession:
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/30/17561470/music-of-inequality
This blog post on Recession Pop:
https://soundstudiesblog.com/2019/10/21/tik-tok-post-crash-party-pop-compulsory-presentism-and-the-2008-financial-collapse/ 
This Defector piece on Stomp Clap Hey:
https://defector.com/the-tragedy-of-stomp-clap-hey 
This other blog post on Stomp Clap Hey music:https://dirt.fyi/article/2021/11/stomp-clap-hey?utm_source=chatgpt.com 
Another piece on the History of Stomp Clap Hey music:https://www.culturesonar.com/stomp-clap-hey-a-short-lived-genre/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 
This piece on Obamacore:
https://www.vulture.com/article/obamacore-obama-pop-culture-kamala-harris.html 
This article on how the Great Recession changed hiphop:
https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/111904168/Gilbers2018_Chapter_HowTheFinancialCrisisChangedHi.pdf 
Colette’s essay on the recession
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/great-recession-what-happened-aftermath-trump

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The Shuffle bois are joined by resident fashion correspondent Colette Shade author of “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on a future that never was.”) to review a masterpiece of 2000s cinema, The Devil Wears Prada. This is a film that simultaneously attempts to be a scathing satire of the fashion industry, a character study of an anti-hero in a deeply flawed industry, and a paint-by-numbers rom com about a woman trying to have it all. After describing its characters, plot, and style, the crew digs down into some of the film's themes, including its schizophrenic relationship to the fashion industry, its view of aestheticism and culture, and how Miranda Priestly functions as a Michael Mann protagonist. They close out by briefly discussing the 2026 fan-service sequel, The Devil Wears Prada 2, which attempts to criticize capitalism and consultants without using the word capitalism.

Follow Colette on bluesky , Twitter (@MsShade) and check her website out here: https://www.coletteshade.com/. Her tour dates are as:

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In part four of their ongoing series on the Great Recession, the Shuffle Bois turn to a topic near and dear to their hearts, the automotive bailouts of 2008/9. When cheap and easy credit dried up due to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the dominos of financialization began to fall, the three struggling American automotive companies were hit particularly hard. In this episode, the shuffle bois go through the history of the automotive industry, laying out both its long term chronic and short term acute issues, before tracing the Obama administration's response. It's a sprawling episode covering labour relations, corporate mismanagement, globalization, the place of the car in American identity, financialization and private equity, and environmentalism

Bibliography:
Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, Detroit: I do mind dying. Cambridge: South End Press, 1998
Paul Ingrassia, Crash Course: the American auto industry's road to bankruptcy and bailout - and beyond. New York: Random House, 2011
Steven Rattner, Overhaul: an insider's account of the Obama administration's emergency rescue of the auto industry. Boston: Mariner Books, 2011
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Honey, I shrunk the stimulus! In their third entry on the Great Recession, the Shuffle Bois trace President Obama's response to a cratering economy. After introducing the cast of neolib ghouls with whom Obama surrounded himself, they go through the history of Fall and Winter 2008/9 up to Obama's signing of the stimulus package. They also discuss Keynesianism, the Cassandras of the time, what might have been, and the Clintonite presidency that we actually got.
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Remember Shuffle turns to one of the most average "indie" bands of the 2000s, The Killers. After briefly describing the history of this group, the Shuffle Bois do three album reviews of the Killers' 2000 discography, tracing their evolution from something resembling a post-punk revival act to something resembling Bruce Springsteen-inspired heartland rock. They also discuss the reverse British invasion, indie sensibilities, the beautiful mind of Brandon Flowers, and the place of the Sun Belt in the 2000s.
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