Lyrics of successful songs in the United States have become simpler and more negative over recent decades, according to a ...

Ron Sexsmith's "Secret Heart" imagines a conversation between a guy and his ticker. The heart's reluctance to talk speaks ...

Why this is important: Offline lyrics aren’t just a neat bonus, but they also fix a real-world pain point for many listeners, especially those with flaky internet or who travel frequently. Being ...

When Taylor Swift’s “Opalite,” the third track off her hotly anticipated 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, dropped at midnight, we wasted no time poring over the lyrics with a fine tooth comb ...

Welcome to “The Lyrics of a Showgirl.” Any Taylor Swift album is endlessly quotable, and her 12th is far from the first exception, even if you have to go a few tracks in to “The Life of a Showgirl” to ...

Keith Urban took a little time to tweak his song. Just days before Nicole Kidman and the country star’s breakup was confirmed, he made an eyebrow-raising change to the song "The Fighter," inspired by ...

So you’ve stumbled on the love of a lifetime, have you? Now you want to express just how you feel about them. Only you can’t quite summon the words that haven’t been said a million times before in the ...

When you imagine a lyric video maker, you’re likely to think of music—the boom of the bass in a pop song or the silky flow of rap music. However, what if we crossed that line? What if lyric-like ...

One of the phrases scrawled on a bullet casing belonging to Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson is a lefty Italian anti-fascist phrase associated with World War II. “O bella ciao, bella ciao” was ...

Sabrina Carpenter has finally released her long-awaited 2025 album, Man’s Best Friend, and the pop star wasn’t kidding when she warned that it wasn’t for “pearl clutchers.” After dropping the album on ...

Hi, I’m Tim Marchman, WIRED’s director of politics, science, and security, and I’m filling in for Jake this week. On August 7, the White House issued an executive order giving political appointees ...