Music holds some very magical powers. It has many therapeutic benefits as well as lightening your mood. High tempo, exciting music genres provide us with comfort, happiness, relief, inspiration, calm, ...

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It's not a practice that's brand new by any means: from The Beatles to Nirvana to the Spice Girls to Rihanna, there have been plenty of artists who have offered up deceptive lyrics behind a tonally ...

Roll over, Beethoven. Elvis Presley too. Female singers with upbeat dance songs are far more likely to make the bestseller music charts, according to new findings. Yet the number of happy songs has ...

The days are getting longer, we're putting away our coats, and we're realizing maybe the low mood wasn't actually us, but the weather. Now that warmer days are upon us, I think we can all agree that ...

A new study shows that 5-month-old babies can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomier compositions. By age 9 months, babies can do ...

I noticed something weird last month as I sang like a giddy fool along with Hootie and the Blowfish and Barenaked Ladies at Coral Sky Amphitheatre as they led the crowd in the immortal Beatles' feel ...

Happy songs are hard to write. Most songwriters will agree that it’s much easier to craft a sad tune over minor chords. With upbeat numbers, it’s easier to slip into something cringe-inducing once you ...

Need inspiration? Happy background music can help get the creative juices flowing. Simone Ritter, at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and Sam Ferguson, at the University of Technology in Sydney, ...

A new Brigham Young University study shows that 5-month-old babies can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomier compositions. By age ...