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

In the lead-up to Christmas 2025, a purported risqué song in the style of 1940s or 1950s "oldies" tunes spread online. Its ...

Taylor Swift seems to have been playing around with some of the lyrics on her Reputation album, making sweary changes to two ...

Singer-composer Job Kurian belongs firmly to the latter. Nearly two decades into his journey, his career feels less like a marked timeline and more like a trail of lived moments: childhood listening ...

The White House social media team is in hot water with one of the world's biggest pop stars after using Sabrina Carpenter's song "Juno" in a video depicting law enforcement apprehending individuals in ...

"It was evident to me that this is a man who should get a pardon," Gov. Bill Lee said about country music star Jelly Roll.

Sabrina Carpenter calls White House video using her song ‘evil and disgusting’ (CNN) — The White House social media team is in hot water with one of the world’s biggest pop stars after using Sabrina ...

Pop music superstar Sabrina Carpenter is dealing with a different type of “Manchild” than she’s used to as The White House publicly insulted her Tuesday. While the barb didn’t come from President ...

Singer Sabrina Carpenter slammed the White House on Tuesday after it posted a video montage of ICE raids using her song “Juno.” The Grammy winner responded to the video on X, saying, “This video is ...

There was one John Lennon song that managed to comfort Yoko Ono in the wake of her husband's death, "Grow Old With Me." ...