In the lead-up to Christmas 2025, a purported risqué song in the style of 1940s or 1950s "oldies" tunes spread online. Its ...

These three country songs were all big hits in the 90s, likely because they all have stunning and unexpected lyrics.

The new film "Song Sung Blue" pays homage to the catalog of Neil Diamond, and it is one worth celebrating. We rank his 10 ...

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

Some of the lyrics on this modern classic were brave, but they helped laid the foundations for what was to come ...

From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

Nonsensical lyrics are everywhere in music. At times, lyrics are simply a meaningless placeholder to bolster the melody. At other times, the songwriter purposefully writes arbitrary words to ...

Rick James, Aaron Hall and Snoop Dogg are just a few of the artists who made songs that made us dance (and blush) with some pretty explicit lyrics Every generation, parents complain to their kids that ...

On May 5, 2024, a post emerged on Reddit, reading, "Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians ...

The "Live Like You Were Dying" singer's last song release was "King Rodeo," which came out this past August. Earlier this ...

“Tomorrow Never Knows” was one of The Beatles’ first psychedelic tunes, and had pretty far-out lyrics too. There are backward loops and strange lyrics, including, “Turn off your mind/ Relax and float ...

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 ...