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

Pop music lyrics have transformed over the past 50 years, revealing troubling patterns that mirror society's mental health struggles.

Debating the merits of today’s popular music versus the hits of the past is largely a matter of taste. But regardless of your ...

Over the past 50 years, the lyrics of popular songs in the U.S. have become simpler, more negative, and contain more stress-related words, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports. The ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The lyrics of more than 6,000 songs were analyzed. This is an Inside Science story. "Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth," sings Pharrell Williams in "Happy," but the joyful sentiments ...

The expression of anger and sadness in pop music lyrics is on the rise, according to a recent language-based quantitative analysis (Napier and Shamir, 2018) of the emotional sentiment contained in ...

The history of attempts to explain music with math and science goes back to antiquity. In the past few years, though, it has ...