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

Welcome to “The Lyrics of a Showgirl.” Any Taylor Swift album is endlessly quotable, and her 12th is far from the first exception, even if you have to go a few tracks in to “The Life of a Showgirl” to ...

Two years before Celeste Rivas Hernandez disappeared, the singer D4vd recorded a song called "Romantic Homicide." The release date was well before her death. That song, and its lyrics, are in the ...

Fans started speculating that Taylor Swift's new song 'Actually Romantic' was about Charli XCX before it even dropped. The lyrics address an unnamed singer who is obsessed with Taylor. Reminder: ...