Voice
John Waite Disliked 'Open Arms.' It Became Journey's Biggest US Hit: The Borrowed Chord That Resolves Into Its Title Line
Vanessa Carlton Couldn't Finish 'A Thousand Miles' for Months, Then Closed It Out in a Single Evening
Adele Planned to Re-Record 'Set Fire to the Rain' With Rick Rubin, Then Kept Her Demo Vocal Instead
Nobody Knows Who Wrote 'Baby Shark' and the Song Feels Like It Never Ends
Gerard Way Wanted My Chemical Romance's 'Cancer' to Be 'the Darkest Song Ever.' Writing It Took About 8 Minutes
The Five-Bar Phrases That Make Taylor Swift's 'The Fate of Ophelia' So Sticky
'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)': A Rejected Demo Turned Into Green Day's Biggest Hit
People Used to Skip Nirvana's 'Something in the Way.' Then The Batman Sent It to No. 46 on the Hot 100
Amy Lee and Ben Moody Wrote 'My Immortal,' Then Fought Their Label to Release the Real Version
Neil Diamond's 'Sweet Caroline' Chorus Works Because of the Gaps in It, Not the Notes, According to the Actual Sheet Music
How Dolly Parton's 'Jolene' Doesn't Follow a Standard Bar Count, and the Effect It Creates
Warner Bros. TV And The Friends Writers Were Furious When The Rembrandts Finished Their Theme Song Without Asking
Bad Bunny's 'EoO' Hits 1 Billion Streams on Spotify After Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Ella Langley's 'Weren't For The Wind' Is Trending Again, and It's Her First Solo Country Radio No. 1
Inside 'Life On Mars?': David Bowie's Revenge on 'My Way,' and the Late-Arriving Tonic That Makes It Work
A Song About Loving Yourself, Mitski's 'My Love Mine All Mine' Uses a Minor Chord to Keep the Loop Moving
Rewritten from Scratch, but the Title Survived: Jerry Lee Lewis' 'Great Balls of Fire' and Its Odd Songwriting Split
Stella Lefty's "Boston" And Breaking Into Fame From TikTok
'The Song Stays or I Go': How a Producer's Ultimatum Saved 'Over the Rainbow'
One Chord Makes 'California Dreamin'' Undercut Its Own Lyrical Promise: The Word 'Warm' Lands on C# Minor
Bare Power Chords and One Simple Bass Line: Why 'Eye of the Tiger' Hits So Hard
New World Cup Anthem and Its Hypnotic Minor-key Loop: Shakira and Burna Boy's 'Dai Dai'
