Singer Shilpa Rao emphasizes that a singer's career is unpredictable, citing her own experiences with unsuccessful songs. She ...

These smash hit songs got us singing and dancing with their catchy lyrics and dance-y beats, but did you know that most of them have a hidden meaning? Whether they were written about lovers, trying to ...

The Recording Academy has officially named the 2026 Grammy nominees, and now the world is waiting for February 1st to see who will take home an award during the Los Angeles ceremony. And one of the ...

Only eight songs are left to vie for your votes in round two of our Best Rock Christmas Songs bracket. Some pretty big names ...

“The Skye Boat Song” is a late 19th-century Jacobite lament that has become inextricably tied to Outlander since composer Bear McCreary put music to the verses, drawing inspiration from upcoming ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

Taylor Swift has long turned to literature for lyrical inspiration. Since releasing her debut album, Taylor Swift, in 2008, the singer has referenced classics, poems, and more in her lyrics to her ...

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“8 Lights” features a duduk, a double-reed woodwind instrument from Armenia. The group decided to use when they met a ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The company that controls Eminem's early catalog, Eight Mile Style, also requested a jury trial Kevin Mazur/Getty Eight Mile Style, the publishing company that controls Eminem's early songs, is suing ...