We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about some popular, older songs that have always been problematic *and*, alternatively, about a few songs they believe were ahead of their time ...

Taking an old film score and dropping it into a new film is “like wearing somebody else’s underwear,” veteran composer Earle Hagen used to say. Hagen, the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning composer of ...

I’ll confess: I never completely drank the Sombr Kool-Aid. I was too engulfed by the rapids of an Addison Rae summer to pay much attention to the curly-haired newcomer. Occasionally, I’d get the ...

Zhang’s explainer is a great snapshot of the zaniness of online communities built on the constant dissection of pop culture, but it unfortunately belies the racist roots of how terms like “khia” come ...

After receiving backlash following the release of the music video for his song “Perra” — in which Black women are portrayed as dogs — Colombian music artist J Balvin recently issued a public apology ...

The Atlantic's Entertainment Channel—editorial fellow Nolan Feeney plus editors Ashley Fetters and Spencer Kornhaber—discusses the songs that made us laugh, cry, rage, and want to hit the gym. Scroll ...

It was only five years ago that electronic punk band YACHT entered the recording studio with a daunting task: They would train an AI on 14 years of their music, then synthesize the results into the ...

Headphones can seem ubiquitous in a college library, a function of responsible students’ attempts to isolate themselves from the conversations and noises around them. However, another form of ...

How evolved is the Karnatik sound compared to the Hindustani sound? At one level I tell myself that the two must not be compared but I am instinctively comparing and judging. I know many musicians who ...