The Bangles' 1986 hit, "Walk Like an Egyptian", has roots in Egypt, of course, but also (surprisingly) England and a small city in Ohio.

In 1983 American pop duo, The Weather Girls, released "It's Raining Men," the lead single off of their third studio album.

Back in 2014, the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England, issued a list of 20 tunes that it dubbed the ...

Boyz II Men’s "End of the Road" is a soulful ballad that captured the hearts of millions in the early 1990s. Released in 1992 ...

Gen Z and Millennials are documenting their reactions to finding out the true meaning the famous 'Macarena' - as lyrics talk of a young woman having a threesome.

How come some songs make us want to sing along and dance, while others just don't grab our attention? Catchy songs have been around as long as there's been music, but what makes a song stick in our ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

The hugely tipped Welly have been wonderfully crashing together the best bits of escapist pop, indie-disco, punk and DIY electronics since their inception in 2022. The group show true ambition to ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. In the history of the music industry, there are some songs that are pretty straightforward —think Color Me Badd’s “I Wanna Sex You Up,” for example (hey ...

After the homeland security secretary called the lyrics “disrespectful,” Bryan, a country music star, said they had been “misconstrued.” By Derrick Bryson Taylor After Kristi Noem, the secretary of ...

Country singer Zach Bryan faced backlash after teasing a song with a lyric about ICE raids. Bryan clarified the song is not a political statement but about national unity. Conservative figures, ...

Taylor Swift faces new criticism over lyrics in her latest song, “Opalite,” which listeners say target her fiancé Travis Kelce’s ex-girlfriend, Kayla Nicole. The song, from Swift’s new album, “The ...