Here are five deceptively upbeat-sounding country songs whose lyrics are anything but, from Marty Robbins to Dwight Yoakam.

Have you ever listened to a song and gotten entirely lost in the optimistically jubilant melody and rhythm only to realize the lyrics juxtapose the music? If you say no, you’re either lying or just ...

How can we track how happy we are? Just look at blogs and song lyrics, two professors say. Peter S. Dodds and Christopher M. Danforth, a mathematician and a computer scientist from the University of ...