Songs have gotten more repetitive and angrier since the 1980s, according to a new study, furthering research that suggested songs have gotten shorter, simpler and more negative over the years due to ...

Top 10 best rap songs of 2025: the most influential, innovative and culturally impactful tracks shaping modern hip-hop.

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 ...

Researchers found that lyrics in each of five popular music genres were becoming more repetitive and charged with negative emotions. Desi Mendoza via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the growing ...

Hip-hop celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, and from its early renegade beginnings to becoming a big fish in the mainstream, many a clever lyric has been turned out by talented rhymers who ...

No matter the genre- lyrics hold power. Whether the words to your favorite song praise God or celebrate life and love, there’s no denying that many times one of the strongest influences can be a ...

Did you know that the first-ever hit single from pioneering Atlanta hip-hop duo OutKast, 1993's "Player's Ball", was a Christmas song?

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

Many Vietnamese rap songs feature themes like drugs or sex, largely because some artists unthinkingly imitate their western counterparts. Once considered a niche genre, Vietnamese rap has grown ...

Scientific studies claim that modern music has become simpler than ever before, both lyrically and musically. But are they ...