He may live at the top of the charts, but nobody’s putting The Weeknd up for a Nobel Prize for literature. A new study showing a steep decline in songwriting skills over the last 40 years used folk ...

From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay. Right about now, music critics are sharing their favorite albums of the year or ...

We preselected all newsletters you had before unsubscribing.

I think part of that issue is that 20 years gives time for the cream to rise to the top. There was a LOT of terrible music in the 60s and 70s. The music from that era that you listened to in the 80s ...