These Motown songs from the 1960s have some notably dark lyrics; you might have missed them, what with those stunning ...

Here are some 1974 songs, from John Lennon to Gordon Lightfoot, that will make you believe in the magic of a Top 10 hit.

Songs have gotten more repetitive and angrier since the 1980s, according to a new study, furthering research that suggested songs have gotten shorter, simpler and more negative over the years due to ...

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 ...

An assessment of hundreds of thousands of songs confirms that choruses and hooks have taken over—but simpler isn’t necessarily worse “There’s more rhyming lines and also more chorus,” says the study’s ...