Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more ...

It’s hard to imagine a songwriter as legendary as Paul McCartney ever stealing lyrics to a song. It’s even harder to imagine that McCartney would admit to the theft. However, the famed Beatles ...

It only makes sense that some of the greatest musicians of our time wanted their own lyrics etched into their gravestones when their time on this earth came to an end. For some musicians, the choice ...

Researchers found that lyrics in each of five popular music genres were becoming more repetitive and charged with negative emotions. Desi Mendoza via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the growing ...

Pop music lyrics have transformed over the past 50 years, revealing troubling patterns that mirror society's mental health struggles.

Songs and poems are like cousins in the creative world. Both art forms can layer their meanings in mystery, leaving the listener pondering what they've heard. Many of the songs on this list are ...

View post: Netflix Made Subtle Move Amid Warner Bros Merger Legendary R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe says we’ve all been getting the lyrics to one of the band’s most famous songs wrong for the last 38 ...

Presenting: 15 of the highest-performing songs in music history. "Bohemian Rhapsody" isn't just a song; it's a journey ...

Pop music has always been obsessed with icons — but in the 21st century, that obsession is measurable. A new analysis from lyrics and music data company Musixmatch found more than 1,000 individual ...

The expression of anger and sadness in pop music lyrics is on the rise, according to a recent language-based quantitative analysis (Napier and Shamir, 2018) of the emotional sentiment contained in ...