NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped. Lyrics of a song can reach us in ways that no other speech ...

From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay. Right about now, music critics are sharing their favorite albums of the year or ...

Taylor Swift surprised fans with revised lyrics to two songs on her 2017 album, Reputation, via Apple Music. Eagle-eyed fans took to social media early Friday, December 12, to point out lyric changes ...

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There are many ways to use mnemonics to improve memory. Music is a common mnemonic device, which may explain why you can remember a pile of decades-old song lyrics but not a lick of what you’ve ...

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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 ...

A new Taylor Swift album dropped, so naturally the Swifties have on their detective hats to decode lyrics and figure out references. There has been a lot of discussion around the song "CANCELLED!" on ...

Taylor Swift's new song "Ruin the Friendship" is about wishing she'd kissed the secret crush she had on her friend, who has since passed. The song seems personal verses fictional due to a reference to ...

Keith Urban swapped out a romantic song lyric about Nicole Kidman just days before the actress filed for divorce. During a recent concert, Urban, 57, was performing his 2017 song “The Fighter,” ...

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 ...