MetroLyrics Blog

Sometimes while I’m looking around on MetroLyrics.com, I notice a trend. Today I noticed how often the word “baby” appears in song lyrics, and I decided to search for baby and see how often it came up. Pages and pages of baby-themed songs and artists came up, but as I was scrolling through the first [...]

Jay-Z has made the news repeatedly in October, first by making his debut appearance at London’s Alexandra Palace, then feuding with Oasis’ Noel Gallagher, and most recently by moving into Broadway with Will Smith. Since he’s also at the top of our charts (well, he’s in the number 2 spot, but that’s pretty close) with [...]

The celebrities are gearing up for Halloween, and so are we! Nicole Richie has her kids’ costumes planned, and we’re thinking about our own. Zombie bridesmaid? Madonna? Hmm… While planning Halloween parties, though, the music is a big deal. MetroLyrics has plenty of halloween songs to choose from, so I started scrolling through them, and [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard of this movie coming out next month called “New Moon”? I think it’s an indie film about a hot, young werewolf who gets pestered by a pale girl and a bunch of emotional vampires. Or something like that… Just kidding! New Moon, the latest in the Twilight saga, comes out November 20th, [...]

Kanye West has has a colorful year, what with getting spoofed as a gay fish on South Park and interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the VMAs. He’s back in the headlines now for pulling a 14-minute video directed by Spike Jonze from his Website and allegedly being dead. Pulling the video was probably a [...]

While checking out the MetroLyrics site today, I cam across something kind of funny: The Carpenters have a new album out. If you’re not familiar with The Carpenters, they’re a brother/sister soft-rock duo who mellowed our airwaves in the 1970s with hits like Close to You and Rainy Days and Mondays, and Karen Carpenter famously [...]

The Decemberists are playing at Royce Hall at UCLA tonight, and they’re a great band for singing along. Some of my favorite songs by them are “Angel, Won’t You Call Me,” and “Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect.” To prepare for the concert tonight, I’m spending a little time with MetroLyrics to brush up [...]

So, you’re a huuuuuge music fan, and you love to know when to look for some good red carpet footage and live performances with your favorite bands. But there are so many awards shows! Where can you look for a comprehensive list of awards shows and major events? Who has the resource you need to [...]

If you look at the MetroLyrics home page today, you might notice Barry Manilow’s new Christmas Album listed in the upcoming albums on the right-hand side of the screen. Is it already that time of year? With Halloween decorations everywhere, and the temperature dropping, it’s definitely getting to be the holiday season, so we thought [...]

Reuters reported yesterday that Michael Jackson’s posthumously released single, This Is It, sounds an awful lot like an 18-year-old song. The song, called “A Gift” by many, may actually be a rip-off of an old Paul Anka song. Lyrics | Michael Jackson Lyrics | This Is It Lyrics The Michael Jackson concert film, also called [...]

Bruce Springsteen is a rock ‘n’ roll legend. The New Jersey native has been in the public eye for nearly 40 years, and in addition to giving us hundreds of amazing songs (we’ve got more than 400 of his songs in the MetroLyrics.com lyrics database), he also contributed significantly to launching the career of Courteney [...]

Miley Cyrus holds the top position this week on both MetroLyrics.com’s chart and on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart. Something’s got people curious about the lyrics to “Party in the USA,” and you can satisfy your curiosity and the curiosity of others with the handy, embeddable lyrics scroller above. Use it for bedroom karaoke, and sing [...]

Ehren Ebbage is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter who has toured the United States extensively, played and recorded with a variety of notable musicians, and worked in tandem with a growing list of other songwriters on joint compositions. An independent artist, Ebbage is part of the renaissance in the music industry, re-defining what it means to “make [...]

MetroLyrics is excited to join the conversation in the blogosphere with this shiny, new blog. We hope you’ll join us here as we go in-depth with songwriters for the stories behind the songs you love and a look at the song-writing process. We’ll showcase top songs and top artists. We’ll break our own news and [...]