The Beatles were a British band popular for changing the world of music with their powerful songs and unique style. The group sold millions of records and played sold-out shows worldwide. Their ...

Taylor Swift's music includes references to famous novelists, playwrights, and poets, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, ...

Circa 1985, a pretentious young teenager in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I painstakingly typed out, on a typewriter, the lyrics to a song by an obscure English punk band—“Outdoor Miner,” from Wire’s 1978 ...

Cigarettes After Sex is an American dream pop band formed in 2008 in El Paso, Texas, by singer-songwriter Greg Gonzalez. Known for their unearthly, slow, and melancholic sound, the band blends dream ...

Upon the breakup of One Direction, Niall Horan took his solo music in a singer-songwriter direction. With half the storytelling tradition of country music and half the anthemic qualities of classic ...

When D'Angelo entered the music scene, he wrote songs with deep soul and a profound reverence for Black women.

Because I use pop lyrics in my poems and review records for SPIN and elsewhere, people sometimes ask me whether I think of song lyrics as poetry. Looked at in certain ways, they obviously are; in ...

Among images in popular music, one of the most haunting figures is that of a car crash. Ironically, crashing into something ...

K-pop has introduced a plethora of love songs over the decades, from cute rhymes hinting subtle confessions, to deep narratives that make you feel the love as you listen to the song. While catchy ...

Most songwriters don’t try to do anything new. They’re busy enough just trying to write a good song. Stretching the form itself – that is something rarely tried mostly. Mostly the mission becomes ...

With Taylor Swift's new album, The Life of a Showgirl, being criticised for its poor songwriting, we look at some of its ...

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature last year, renewing an old debate: Are pop lyrics poetry? (Lex Van Lieshout/European Pressphoto Agency) Michael Lindgren is a frequent contributor to The ...