Writers and musicians have very different job requirements. Writers must form an idea in their brain, and then find the precise phrasing to clearly and adequately convey that idea — the goal is to be ...

Rock history, especially the 1990s, is full of classic hits with nonsensical lyrics. So, how important are song lyrics? And do the words even matter?

We found four songs Chris Stapleton wrote for himself, which have lyrics that read like a stunning masterpiece.

Ever belted out a song at full volume, only to discover later that what you’d been confidently singing was completely, ...

When you well and truly love a song, you can sometimes cease to hear it for what it truly is. Misheard song lyrics can take on new forms, and ambiguous song meanings end up reinterpreted to basically ...

Was there ever a song you thought you were singing correctly for years, and then finally looked up the lyrics and discovered that you got some of them wrong? A new study by Wordfinder by ...

St. Patrick's Day is filled with food, music, fun and all things green! There are even country song lyrics about luck. Due to its Irish roots, the day has been widely associated with things like ...

More than two thirds of Billboard 100 number one songs that charted in 2017 feature explicit lyrics, a new study shows based on Spotify API data. Our taste for expletive-filled lyrics and has grown ...

Reflecting on Felix Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, this extraordinary quartet presents a new kind of music, and possibly a whole new genre that has never before appeared in this form either in ...

Circa 1985, a pretentious young teenager in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I painstakingly typed out, on a typewriter, the lyrics to a song by an obscure English punk band—“Outdoor Miner,” from Wire’s 1978 ...