The lyrics of more than 6,000 songs were analyzed. This is an Inside Science story. "Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth," sings Pharrell Williams in "Happy," but the joyful sentiments ...

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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 ...

Over the past 50 years, U.S. pop music lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive, and increasingly focused on stress and negative emotions.

Everyone knows these three '00s pop songs for their choruses. Far fewer know the rest of the words. How much do you know of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images The history of attempts to explain music with math and science goes back to ...

From cosmic voyages to streets of glam, Bowie’s music carved a path where innovation met rebellion, leaving echoes that still ripple through culture. David Bowie didn’t just make music; he sculpted ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Yahoo News entertainment reporter, Kelsey Weekman, about a spate of new pop songs that draw on worship traditions in megachurches. ALEX WARREN: (Singing) They say the ...

The history of attempts to explain music with math and science goes back to antiquity. In the past few years, though, it has ...

The expression of anger and sadness in pop music lyrics is on the rise, according to a recent language-based quantitative analysis (Napier and Shamir, 2018) of the emotional sentiment contained in ...