My research collaborators at Yale University and I tried to figure out why we like sad art when we hate experiencing sadness in real life. We pay good money to see depressing movies and listen to Sad ...

You would think happy people would prefer to listen to happy music. Lyrics that speak to their positive mood, bringing them cheer and joy. Yet, sad music tends to have a longer-lasting appeal for many ...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Let us celebrate Irish culture today by sharing some traditional Irish songs. They harp tracks are perfect for relaxing this evening. #Irish #Ireland #StPatrick As part of ...

Please don't yell at me I hate putting anything down this low. It's songs like this -- and "Vigilante [Expletive]" from her Midnights album -- that take her career power struggles and lay them out for ...

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 ...

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It sounded like a slap in the face. A stinging jibe from one great rock artist to another. But was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s hit song Sweet Home Alabama really an attack on Neil Young? Guitarist Gary ...

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About 50 percent of people get chills when listening to music. Research shows that’s because music stimulates an ancient reward pathway in the brain, encouraging dopamine to flood the striatum—a part ...

Formed in Las Vegas in 2008 and led by frontman Dan Reynolds, Imagine Dragons helped define the sound of radio rock in the 2010s with Hot 100 top 10 hits such as “Radioactive,” “Demons,” “Believer” ...