The “six-seven” shrug—so viral that it has been tapped as the 2025 Word of the Year by Dictionary.com—is the latest of the unending stream of nonsensical jokes, rituals, and competitions that spread ...

If you haven’t listened closely to the lyrics behind these six classic songs, you may have been jamming to a tune about something wildly different than what you were expecting. Some non-Cohen fans ...

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

Back in 1963, a talented trio of songwriters penned a pop song based on a conversation one of them had heard between a teenage girl and a boy who was hitting on her. The writers – Bob Feldman, Jerry ...