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Since its premiere in the summer of 2022, the Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty has been winning audiences over with its intriguing love triangle — and equally irresistible soundtrack.

In a new study, high-energy, less acoustic songs evoked personal memories featuring amusement and excitement, while lower-energy, more acoustic songs evoked memories characterized by calmness, romance ...

According to the charts, Alex Warren's hit single "Ordinary" is the undisputed song of the summer. The song has reigned at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for 10 weeks, but fans and critics remain unenthused.

“That song, I've seen a lot of tattoos of it, which is how I know it really resonates with people," Miranda tells PEOPLE Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Disney+ Lin-Manuel Miranda is fully “satisfied” when ...

Anime makes itself memorable through creative stories and stunning animation, but sometimes it needs a little extra push, and that is why anime opening theme songs have become so popular. These catchy ...

Don’t mess with the Sandman. Adam Sandler is setting the record straight on the meaning behind a scathing lyric in his “SNL:50” song. During the 50th anniversary special of “Saturday Night Live,” the ...

Drake, Ed Sheeran and Tyler, the Creator, are usually reliable hitmakers. But the songs they’ve put out this summer haven’t stuck around. Instead, listeners keep returning to a power ballad from 1998: ...

I t happened earlier this month the same way it always happens. Jesse Welles was scrolling on his cell at home in northwest Arkansas — Siloam Springs, population 21,000 — when he came across a ...

L-R: Lola Tung, Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno in 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Season 1 and Taylor Swift Prime Video & Getty Images At this point, fans have come to expect at least a few ...

Sometimes in country music, the person singing a hit song isn't the one who wrote it. That's true for at least four of the No. 1 songs from the past 12 months, and we want you to meet the man behind ...

Fans of Jimin are infuriated by Song Da-eun's now-deleted ‘surprise’ video, saying that she posted the clip without his consent and questioned his privacy. BTS member Jimin and actor Song Da-eun have ...