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

In a matter of a few years in the 1960s, Dick Van Dyke became a star on Broadway, television and the silver screen.

Police found violent rap lyrics which glamorised a gang lifestyle when they searched the Nottingham home of a young ...

A shared love for "Sow Mercy" led to an incredible kidney transplant story in North Carolina, in which two lives were ...

Some of the lyrics on this modern classic were brave, but they helped laid the foundations for what was to come ...

Frank Sinatra dismissed modern music and David Bowie answered by transforming that criticism into a hit song with lasting ...

The career of a man Aretha Franklin calls “the greatest record man of all time". The Soundtrack of Our Lives is a guided tour of the cultural revolution from the ’60s to the rise of hip-hop, led by ...

Lü Xiaomin never received formal music training. But her worship songs have made her a household name in China’s churches.

Greg Lake was known for his work in the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. But one of his ...

Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

Jared Leto will be terrorizing the Masters of the Universe as the villain Skeletor in the upcoming live action movie adaptation. Skeletor is the main villain in the Masters of the Universe, and is a ...

The following year, the Happy Gilmore 2 actor dropped $8.8 million for a contemporary Hollywood Hills estate set on a little over half an acre. Set above the Sunset Strip, the property comprises an ...