Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...

Think of the color yellow. I’ll think of it, too. What are the chances our thoughts are the same? If instead I said “submarine yellow,” would we both picture the shade on the cover of the Beatles’ ...

However, a few years later Carey’s story of how the song came about seemed to contradict this. In a 2017 interview with ...