Songs about love, sex, tax and demon hunters ranked among the best music of 2025, according to a "poll of polls" conducted by ...

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

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Modern pop songs are more negative than tracks made 50 years ago, a study shows. References to stress and negative sentiment have become more common in modern songs, according to an analysis of 20,000 ...

Over the past 50 years, U.S. pop music lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive, and increasingly focused on stress and negative emotions.

The research team say it could be due to more positive and complex music being used as a "form of escapism" during stressful ...