A new analysis of popular music from the last half-century reveals that while the lyrics of chart-topping American songs have generally become angrier and simpler over time, this trend shifts ...

A recent analysis of popular music from the past six decades suggests that song lyrics have become increasingly focused on negative moral concepts like harm and rebellion. Over the same period, ...

Some of the biggest songs to smash through the charts have had abysmal, creepy, or straight-up frightening lyrics. But if you add a catchy melody to a song, it’s easy to not pay attention to the ...

Song lyrics have a way of seeping into the public consciousness. You can not have heard a song in a decade and perfectly sing along to it when it comes back on. They stick in some rarified corner of ...