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

Miranda Lambert is one of country music’s most dynamic songwriters. She can seamlessly transition from the fiery spirit of “Gunpowder and Lead” to the heartbreaking “Tin Man,” running the gamut of ...

Oasis’ upcoming reunion is all fans have been talking about in 2024. It’ll definitely be exciting to see the iconic Britpop rock band back together, seemingly without expected conflict. There’s no ...

Classic rock brought us some great music and some legendary artists. Among the sounds, those guitar solos or bass riffs were other standouts in the songs, things that kept the music real and memorable ...

Hip-hop celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, and from its early renegade beginnings to becoming a big fish in the mainstream, many a clever lyric has been turned out by talented rhymers who ...

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but impossible. Still, we try.

Eminem performing on stage, wearing a black hoodie and jacket, holding a microphone. The background is filled with blurry lights. Eminem has never seemed real. Pressing play on one of his songs has ...

“Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients / Youngbloods can’t spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.” Mos Def raises the stakes of this rhyme in the first line by presenting the ...