Debating the merits of today’s popular music versus the hits of the past is largely a matter of taste. But regardless of your ...

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Modern pop songs are more negative than tracks made 50 years ago, a study shows. References to stress and negative sentiment ...

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

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

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

These lyrics make us reach for the skip button ASAP! Join us as we count down our picks for pop songs with the most uncomfortable, problematic, and downright disturbing lyrics. From creepy stalker ...

Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more stress-related words, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports. The ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Yahoo News entertainment reporter, Kelsey Weekman, about a spate of new pop songs that draw on worship traditions in megachurches. ALEX WARREN: (Singing) They say the ...

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