Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, the ...

What were the best hard rock songs of each year of the 1990s? What a decade it was, as we saw the end of hair metal's rule, the dominance of grunge and alternative music, a pop-punk revival and the ...

Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, explores many themes, from the pitfalls of fame to dealing with a frenemy — but one track off the orange-coded new work may be her most risqué song ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is a hit with audiences — and so is the film’s soundtrack. Anderson is known for his musical prowess, and his 10th feature film is packed with hits.

A choir teacher was exasperated with hearing slang like “67” in her middle school classroom. Rather than ban it, she asked her students to write and perform a song about it. “Some teachers get ...

Former Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider has just released a new song in tribute to the late Charlie Kirk, and in an interview, he says the song is a "battle cry" for conservatives. The 65-year-old ...

Bryan, a Grammy winner, upset some right-wing fans when he appeared to criticize U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a teaser for a new song. Grammy Award-winning country singer-songwriter ...

For most singers, switching up lyrics is a trick of the trade. But Keith Urban's recent musical revision has taken on a new light following his split from wife Nicole Kidman. A resurfaced concert clip ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

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 ...

Sammy Hagar gave fans a bit of a scare earlier this year when he released his new single, "Encore, Thank You, Goodnight." Naturally, people wondered if maybe he was musically signaling his plans to ...