At their peak, these songs were impossible to avoid, dominating radios and playlists. But before we knew it, they slipped out of the spotlight. There was a time when you couldn't enter a public space ...

It's the time of year when seemingly innocent jingles tunnel into my brain. Right now I'm haunted by Ariana Grande's "Santa Tell Me," which I heard for the first time while researching this article.

Some things just can’t be unheard, which is something I’ve recently discovered with Natasha Bedingfield’s pop hit from 2004, “Unwritten”. The song was virtually inescapable in the mid-2000s, becoming ...

DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE: (Singing) Ah. DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE: (Rapping) Summertime. LAVETTE GOODMAN: (Singing) Summer, summer, summertime. DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE: ...

Maybe you've heard it on the radio recently or come by it by way of your Spotify algorithm: A raspy pop-country song about taking a train back to Boston and a budding relationship, from an emerging ...

There's a reason why certain songs get stuck in our brains, scientists say. They interrupt the musical patterns we expect with surprises that we... It's the time of year when seemingly innocent ...

DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE: (Singing) Ah. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: It's the first day of summer. Here come the beach trips, the cookouts and those ubiquitous summertime songs. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, ...