The pop songs you love might feel so catchy they’re magic, but their ability to get stuck in your head isn’t fairy dust and sparkles: it’s melodic math. Music researchers use melodic math to refer to ...

Many of us take pleasure in listening to music. Music accompanies important life events and lubricates social encounters. It represents aspects of our existing identity, as well as our hopes and ...

Plenty of pop stars out there have given rock music a shot through the years. While many pop icons didn’t exactly dive into straight-up rock-and-roll territory, many of them produced fairly good ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Benjamin is a New York-based writer covering global pop music. ROSÉ performs "APT." live with Bruno Mars at the 2024 MAMA ...

You may have heard of recession meals and wardrobes. Now, we have "recession pop" - bangers from 2008-2010 gaining popularity with a younger audience. Let me take you back to the fall of 2008. The ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Yahoo News entertainment reporter, Kelsey Weekman, about a spate of new pop songs that draw on worship traditions in megachurches. ALEX WARREN: (Singing) They say the ...

Think of the lyrics of your favorite pop song. Are they like Taylor Swift's "All Too Well," which narrates the story of a ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

The news gets even better on the pop charts since several of the singles and the soundtrack have landed in top slots. The film’s executive music producer Ian Eisendrath admits to having a hope that ...