Emotion is at the heart of country music, and it's what makes the genre such a godsend for difficult times. Let these country songs about funerals and losing loved ones speak your grieving words for ...

Flack and Peabo Bryson hopped in the studio together for this ballad in the early ’80s. If you only know Flack from “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” this song might come as a surprise to you. She’s ...

A pop-music giant if ever there was one, Taylor Swift has had an astonishing year, what with her ultra-lucrative Eras Tour finally wrapping up; her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, ...

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I was in the fourth grade when my white best friend told me a racist joke. “Why are black people so dark?” he asked a group of us at lunch, with a mischievous grin. I looked at him dumbfounded. I put ...

Jelly Roll is no stranger to laying his trials out for the rest of the world to see and learn from, and his favorite song off his October 2024 album, Beautifully Broken, is certainly a testament to ...

In the wake of a heartbreak, many of us turn to music. Songwriters have been writing about breakups — more specifically the romantic kind — for decades. There is, after all, a lot of varying emotions ...

The Oscar-winning actor will debut his new song live on Sunday, June 30, during the 2024 BET Awards Will Smith is back with new music — and a new sound. The four-time Grammy-winning rapper and actor, ...

I’m the kind of crazy Christmas junkie that Hallmark has made a mint on. I still cry every time Kevin McCallister runs across the foyer floor and leaps into Catherine O’Hara’s arms, I can recite Hugh ...

Like a good cup of espresso, music is a sensory experience that can stick with you long after it’s gone. Music doesn’t even need to be played out loud. Perhaps even reading the word “espresso” put ...