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 ...

Song lyrics have a way of seeping into the public consciousness. You can not have heard a song in a decade and perfectly sing along to it when it comes back on. They stick in some rarified corner of ...

NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped.

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 ...

A new comprehensive analysis suggests that the words embedded in songs do far more than simply provide a narrative for a ...