From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

Taylor Swift‘s 2017 album Reputation just had some switch-ups — and fans were not ready for it! Reputation is now available ...

The most striking update comes to track three, the explosive “I Did Something Bad.” Rather than the original lyric — “If he ...

Taylor Swift is sending her fans into a tizzy yet again. On Thursday night, so-called Swifties on social media noticed something strange about the singer’s 2017 album Reputation: specifically, that ...

The sale of the drafted lyrics at a Jan. 18 auction accounted for one-third of the collection's total sale of $1.5 million MARK HUMPHREY/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock; Michael ...

Taylor Swift didn’t make an announcement — she didn’t even post — but a quiet update to Reputation landed at a very specific moment. On Dec. 12, just one day before her 36th birthday, fans noticed ...

Seated in a New York courtroom witness box, Don Henley opened a large brown envelope Tuesday and paged through the aging yellow sheets of a legal pad. "Well, it's got two song titles written on the ...

Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" presents like a carefree drinking song, but the lyrics tell a more serious story that country fans know very well. "Tipsy" (as it's often called) opens with acoustic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Hip-hop is bigger than ever, as it’s the most-consumed genre of ...

The love ballad, which was written mainly, if not entirely, by McCartney, is featured on the Fab Four’s classic album Revolver. “I’m often asked what my favorite song I’ve ever written is, and I don’t ...