Three-year-old Aliyah Vaughan (full disclosure: she’s my niece) loves to ask her parents’ voice-activated speaker to play songs. She doesn’t always get the exact name of the song, but a lot of times ...

YouTube Music introduced the ability to share lyrics last year and is now upgrading the background options with generative AI.

The lyrics of modern-day music has become more repetitive over the past 40 years, a new study has found. The study published in the journal Scientific Reports found that lyrics of English-language ...

Lyrics can hold an immense amount of power. You scribble them on notebooks, repeat them in your head as mantras, adopt as life principles the ones that feel particularly aligned with your soul. You ...

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 ...

Which song lyrics from 2025 most moved our NPR Music critics?

NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped.

Misheard lyrics can be a golden moment of serendipity. Often, these mistaken lyrics, or mondegreens, are just words that slip past our attention. Despite their falsehood, these alternative listenings ...

Love makes the world go 'round... and it also helps sell music. Whether the best love songs are crushing classics that could make a generation of babies, or are a nausea-inducing love ditty, we can't ...

It's totally normal to need a good cry sometimes, and there's nothing that does the trick quite like the best sad songs can. Hearing your favorite artists of all time singing the saddest lyrics and ...