From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

Lyrics of successful songs in the United States have become simpler and more negative over recent decades, according to a ...

Even if you heard these songs from the 1970s multiple times, you might have missed the shocking lyrics hidden within.

Music just has a way of moving people. Whether to motivate, console or inspire, there is something about song lyrics that really makes a person think differently. And when it comes to the best song ...

Apple Music continues to catch up with Spotify, now giving subscribers the ability to share songs and lyrics to WhatsApp ...

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

Taylor Swift seems to have been playing around with some of the lyrics on her Reputation album, making sweary changes to two ...

The right ’70s song does more than trigger nostalgia, it feels like it could drop into a 2025 playlist without missing a beat ...

The real-life tragedy that inspired "Whiskey Lullaby" is the reason this song came close to never being written in the first ...

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but ...