The song as a whole scored 0.52 for sadness and 0.53 for fear, while joy scored just 0.09. The Village People's " YMCA ," released in 1978, on the other hand, scored 0.65 for joy and 0.11 for anger.

The newer, modified version of the ABC's song we all grew up singing may be hard for parents to grasp, but it's designed to help kids learn better.

From "Puff the Magic Dragon" to Britney Spears' new song "If You Seek Amy," songwriters and performers have been sneaking hidden meanings, sometimes dirty ones, into songs for decades.

Most English-speaking individuals are familiar with the so-called "Alphabet Song." Some people even still use the jaunty tune as a reference when confronted with the task of alphabetizing anything.

The song was written as a protest of American culture in the post-9/11 era, with verses summing up the band’s discontent with the country. The original lyrics of the second verse state, "Well ...

A kindergarten teacher on TikTok is going viral for revealing a new version of the alphabet song that is being taught at her Los Angeles elementary school. A, B, C. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

As the new alphabet song is going viral on TikTok, Rachel Platt tells PEOPLE why the changes are helping young learners ...

Pop songs are dumb and getting dumber, and hip-hop is the dumbest genre of them all. Or so screamed headlines reporting a 2015 analysis which calculated "readability" scores for lyrics from US ...

Over 25 years on from its original release, the British dance titans appear to have altered the polarising lyrics one of their biggest songs, Smack My Bitch Up.

(CNN) – Music lyrics have gotten simpler, angrier and more repetitive, according to a new study. Researchers compared English-language rap, pop, country, rock and R&B songs from the 1980s to 2020.

The lyrics in a church bulletin shocked people at a service featuring Christmas carols in Sri Lanka. Instead of traditional Christian prayers and hymns church-goers found the lyrics of rap legend ...