If you find yourself studying beneath the amber trees of Harvard Yard looking for warmth in the chilly weather, here are 10 ...

If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...

The boundaries of “pop” grow wider and more fluid every year. We won’t draw lines around where it begins or ends. But as per tradition, the list skews toward Top 40 from the actual Top 40, with some ...

Taylor Swift has given the world some of the most popular love songs of modern times. A love song by a well-known indie band knocked her off of her feet. She said the tune was dark, but it managed to ...

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 ...

That title-page quotation from Stephen Merritt, a pop/rock singer-songwriter, arguably overstates the case but the importance of love songs is undeniable. In Love Songs: The Hidden History, American ...

Few musicians have more successfully navigated a full-genre crossover like Taylor Swift. Now a pop superstar, she started her career when she was in her teens with songs such as “Tim McGraw” and ...

Valentine’s Day 2024 is here, and (almost) everyone is in the mood to listen to love songs. K-pop has a treasure trove of songs for all the emotional states that someone in love goes through. From ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Popular music is still dominated by love songs but the innocent words of former hits have been replaced by edgy, sexual words and bad language, according to a new study.