Pop songs are dumb and getting dumber, and hip-hop is the dumbest genre of them all. Or so screamed headlines reporting a 2015 analysis which calculated "readability" scores for lyrics from US ...

I love listening to Metallica, and for the first time I decided to contemplate the full message and meaning behind the lyrics of a favourite Metallica song of mine The Unforgiven. What follows is a ...

An in-depth study has revealed how the lyrical content of pop songs has changed over the past 70 years. The research, carried out by search platform Lottie, was based on analysis of more than 35,000 ...

A couple of years ago, as his fellow psychologists debated whether narcissism was increasing, Nathan DeWall heard Rivers Cuomo singing to a familiar 19th-century melody. Cuomo, the lead singer and ...

Have you ever listened to the lyrics of a favorite song? I mean, reeeeeeally listened? Better yet, have you ever read the lyrics of a familiar song while it has played? If so, what was that like for ...