My research collaborators at Yale University and I tried to figure out why we like sad art when we hate experiencing sadness in real life. We pay good money to see depressing movies and listen to Sad ...

Now that Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl has finally arrived, it’s time to analyze every last damn lyric, from the inspo behind “Actually Romantic” to all those theories about “CANCELLED!” ...

You would think happy people would prefer to listen to happy music. Lyrics that speak to their positive mood, bringing them cheer and joy. Yet, sad music tends to have a longer-lasting appeal for many ...

Please don't yell at me I hate putting anything down this low. It's songs like this -- and "Vigilante [Expletive]" from her Midnights album -- that take her career power struggles and lay them out for ...

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 ...

Taylor Swift the celebrity is such a magnet for attention, she can distract from Taylor Swift the artist. But Swift was a songwriter before she was a star, and she’ll be a songwriter long after she ...

It sounded like a slap in the face. A stinging jibe from one great rock artist to another. But was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s hit song Sweet Home Alabama really an attack on Neil Young? Guitarist Gary ...

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In a shocking turn of events, Punjabi singer Khan Saab’s father, Iqbal Muhammad, passed away on Monday, October 13, at the ...

For Reinier de Ridder and Brendan Allen, the road to UFC middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev runs through each other. De Ridder and Allen headline UFC Fight Night in Vancouver on Saturday. De Ridder ...