Each witch gets a new number as part of an effort to flesh out the arc of the stage show’s second act. As the composer Stephen Schwartz was working on the 2003 stage musical “Wicked,” one of the stars ...

One of the most popular messages of the 2025 Michigan high school football season is "We Not Done," the hook from popular Detroit rapper 42 Dugg.

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Part 2 of the movie musical, which is based on the second half of the Broadway musical, left off with Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) belting out “Defying Gravity” after she and BFF Glinda (Ariana Grande) ...

Wicked: For Good will feature two new original songs — allowing audiences to explore Elphaba and Glinda’s journeys on an even deeper level. Part 2 of the movie musical, which is based on the second ...

Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week's Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40.

IT SOUNDS LIKE a typical country tune, for a few seconds at least. “Country Girls Make Do” opens with a toe-tapping beat and twangy strains of fiddles and guitar. You expect a song about whisky or ...

The country star's latest song, "Bad News," has started a war of words with DHS. Country star Zach Bryan has responded to controversy sparked by his forthcoming song "Bad News," which contains lyrics ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

Freddie Mercury did not sing 'of the world' at the end of the original 1977 recording of "We Are the Champions." However ... What's False ... the line was present in the lyrics for the song as printed ...

Originally written by Jake Holmes in 1967, Led Zeppelin made this track a hit two years later on their self-titled 1969 LP. The song just somehow fits the end of the 1960s. Everyone was dazed and ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...