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

Composer Stephen Schwartz wrote two new songs for Wicked: For Good, including “No Place Like Home,” sung by Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba. Schwartz said the song shows “how much she loves Oz,” even if it ...

"Wicked: For Good" (in theaters Friday, Nov. 21) includes two original songs by composer Stephen Schwartz. "No Place Like Home," an emotional showcase for the ostracized Elphaba, is a callback to ...

Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn't originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...

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 ...

Margo Price has shared a new behind-the-scenes music video for “Love Me Like You Used to Do,” her duet with Tyler Childers from her fifth studio album, Hard Headed Woman. The collaboration between two ...

Margo Price and Tyler Childers offer a behind-the-scenes look at their collaborative process in the new video for their duet, “Love Me Like You Used to Do.” Written by Steve Knudson, the song is at ...

We're not going to write you a love song, but we can certainly recommend some. The best love songs evoke feelings across the swinging pendulum of love, from just meeting and getting to know each other ...

Limp Bizkit are officially back with new music, releasing a track that was recently teased through a TikTok drummer called "Making Love to Morgan Wallen." For some fans, the track is going to sound a ...

Seeing Tyler Childers‘ name on my New Music Friday playlist in any capacity is a sign that it’s a week full of good releases. And for anyone who did not read the headline before clicking on this ...

Tender, raw, euphoric, sometimes devastating: love songs are the heartbeat of popular music. They’ve captured everything from infatuation to heartbreak, lifelong devotion to one-night desire. The best ...