Classic rock lyrics can be great, meaningless, or greatly meaningless. For example, Oasis’ “Don’t Look Back in Anger” doesn’t make a lot of sense when you listen to it with both ears. Regardless, the ...

The expression of anger and sadness in pop music lyrics is on the rise, according to a recent language-based quantitative analysis (Napier and Shamir, 2018) of the emotional sentiment contained in ...