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 ...

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 ...

In the aftermath of widespread protests against racial injustice this summer, companies contorted themselves to atone for past mistakes. The music industry and the Recording Academy gave it their best ...

Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 premiered on Netflix on August 3, 2022, bringing forth the story of one of the most extraordinarily violent, chaotic, and problematic music festivals of all time. In Michael ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...