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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 ...

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 ...

NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped. Lyrics of a song can reach us in ways that no other speech ...

Far too often, we as a society tend to focus on our differences, instead of concentrating on those things that we share. The air we breathe. The things that we feel. The knowledge that nothing we do, ...

New research from Michigan State University finds that popular music has gradually become less explicit about emotion and relationships—both across generations of artists and within artists' careers.

Duh-duh-duh Duh-duh-duh-duh! You can just hear it. Those big drums, those strings. The onset of the onslaught that is the Led Zeppelin song, “Kashmir.” The song that, in the ’90s, Puff Daddy just had ...