Ballads have a long tradition in both singing and dancing. And these 1986 ballad classics will have you doing both.

There’s something about a rock ballad that stirs feelings of nostalgia even when the lyrics aren’t particularly wistful. The music of the 1980s arrived with heightened earnestness as the decade became ...

Grab some tissues because Cynthia Erivo is about to make you cry. Again. For the upcoming documentary, John Candy: I Like Me, the three-time Oscar nominee has recorded a stripped-down and powerful ...

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 ...