Poetic allusions makes for the best song lyrics, and these three songs manage to say "I love you" without using the phrase at ...

Rick James, Aaron Hall and Snoop Dogg are just a few of the artists who made songs that made us dance (and blush) with some pretty explicit lyrics Every generation, parents complain to their kids that ...

In the lead-up to Christmas 2025, a purported risqué song in the style of 1940s or 1950s "oldies" tunes spread online. Its ...

Nonsensical lyrics are everywhere in music. At times, lyrics are simply a meaningless placeholder to bolster the melody. At other times, the songwriter purposefully writes arbitrary words to ...

“Tomorrow Never Knows” was one of The Beatles’ first psychedelic tunes, and had pretty far-out lyrics too. There are backward loops and strange lyrics, including, “Turn off your mind/ Relax and float ...

Not many people would disagree if you said The Beatles changed everything about pop music. The musicians who hated the band might disagree on principle, but their legions of fans would defend them.

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 ...

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 ...

Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn't originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...

Innovative guitarist Janet Feder draws her own sonic territory on this first collection of original songs. The Colorado-based guitarist is known for her extended techniques on the prepared guitar, and ...

Is it a racial slur or is it simply another language? The question has popped up frequently in the context of several Asian languages over the years. And now that Korean pop music has been dominating ...