Think country music is all about tailgates and pickups? The data tells a different story, and it’s way more heartfelt than ...

André 3000 has pointed out that people ignore the message entirely because the beat is so joyful. The song describes couples staying together out of habit rather than happiness. That theme feels even ...

The Beatles were the band of the 1960s. And in 1965, they released these three incredible one-word title songs.

The Beatles’ songs contain some of the most famous lyrics in the history of classic rock music. During interviews, John Lennon and Paul McCartney said The Beatles would often use these two words in ...

From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay. Right about now, music critics are sharing their favorite albums of the year or ...

Sometimes I wonder what Shakespeare would think about 21st-century language. Like, would he think it’s “dope” that so many of the slang words we use actually have two meanings? Would he be super ...

Circa 1985, a pretentious young teenager in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I painstakingly typed out, on a typewriter, the lyrics to a song by an obscure English punk band—“Outdoor Miner,” from Wire’s 1978 ...