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

Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone debuted 60 years ago on Highway 61 Revisited and is still hailed as the greatest rock song ...

The White House has turned Sabrina Carpenter's lyrics against her, using lines from her own songs to imply she's 'stupid' after the singer raged at officials for using her music in an ICE video.

New York–based hyperpop artist Underscores has shared a new song called “Do It,” along with its accompanying music video. In the self-directed clip, Underscores sings along to the electropop track ...

An international team has confirmed that large quantum systems really do obey quantum mechanics. Using Bell’s test across 73 qubits, they proved the presence of genuine quantum correlations that can’t ...

Welcome to “The Lyrics of a Showgirl.” Any Taylor Swift album is endlessly quotable, and her 12th is far from the first exception, even if you have to go a few tracks in to “The Life of a Showgirl” to ...

Taylor Swift is dancing through heartbreak so you can process yours at the Eras Tour. In “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart,” a new song from The Tortured Poets Department, the singer opens up about how ...

On July 4, 2025, my 18-year-old daughter Chloe Madeline Childress was killed. Not in a car or hunting accident, but because she listened to me as her father. I taught her respect for others. I taught ...

In his 2017 book “On Tyranny,” an analysis of America’s anti-democratic shift under Trump, Yale historian Timothy Snyder implores his audience, “Do not obey in advance.” “Most of the power of ...

It’s safe to say that the internet is obsessed with Lady Gaga’s new album, Mayhem. The pop culture icon earned her seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart thanks to Little Monsters blasting it ...

Lady Gaga’s new album Mayhem lives up to its title, but there’s a lot of sweetness and romanticism, too. In the track “How Bad Do U Want Me,” Gaga goes full-on ’80s prom ballad, even eliciting ...