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

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey and "Christmastime Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi Trio are among the best ...

Peter Asher reflects on how he got from Peter and Gordon topping the charts with a Paul McCartney song to producing James ...

Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner talks writing the track "My Baby (Got Nothing at All)" for Celine Song's "Materialists." ...

Unlike the past few years where there were clearly dominant pop music storylines like the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef or ...

Two Stockton music artists are using their platforms to "give every child their voice back" while also calling for peace ...

Ethan Hawke, 55, is a girl dad, which shows when he sits down to speak with Sydney Sweeney. At 28, the actor-producer who ...

Taylor Swift brought 4.5 million page views to Genius thanks to the scandalous lyrics of her song "Wood" from 'The Life of a ...

“It was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat,” Fieger wrote in the liner notes for the 2002 digital remaster of ...

Avenue in Anna Nagar, Chennai. A pale November evening. The room glows softly; chairs lie scattered; someone tunes a guitar, ...

The musician and drag queen is an exvangelical who came to see that holding on to a theology of self-loathing was just ...

This year, Kehlani turned 30 after spending more than a decade flying — and at times flailing — in the public eye as one of R ...