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

Ella Langley fooled us. All week long she teased a sweet love song called "Never Met Anyone Like You." Turns out the lyrics to this new acoustic (at first) ballad aren't sweet at all. The bridge of ...

Longtime teacher Allison Watters approached her former student, Tessa Balaz, to commission a love song for her husband, Steve ...

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 ...

With “Boo’d Up,” Ella Mai turned everyday feelings into a global love anthem that reminded R&B how romance should feel.

Kelly Clarkson's "Where Have You Been" lyrics about the kind of love you see in the movies — or, in her case, on a television show. The singer explains that she got inspired after watching an episode ...

Relationships can get messy, love might transform into something horrifyingly unexpected, and the daydreamers could lose ...

They’re swooning for these sappy sounds. Spotify compiled a list of the Top 10 most streamed love songs of all time for The Post ahead of Valentine’s Day — and when it comes to romantic anthems, ...