Lyrics of successful songs in the United States have become simpler and more negative over recent decades, according to a ...

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

Researchers found that lyrics in each of five popular music genres were becoming more repetitive and charged with negative emotions. Desi Mendoza via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the growing ...

Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more stress-related words, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports. The ...

These 1960s tunes boast some shocking lyrics that you might have totally missed if you weren't listening closely.