Pop music lyrics have transformed over the past 50 years, revealing troubling patterns that mirror society's mental health struggles.

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Which words do we find beautiful? And do beautifully sounding words stick better in memory? A new study led by linguist Theresa Matzinger from the University of Vienna suggests that the phonemic ...

Bettering himself. Morgan Wallen is getting into some wholesome community groups while he's not on the road. During a recent ...

Faith No More's Bill Gould looks back on the making of We Care A Lot, his band's thrillingly unhinged debut album, now ...

Think of the lyrics of your favorite pop song. Are they like Taylor Swift's "All Too Well," which narrates the story of a ...

But before I give you some “Records & Radio” reading, a quiz question. In 2011, Billboard resumed compiling a weekly Top 100 ...

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