Many of the bands of the British New Wave developed a passion for American soul music. After Spandau Ballet’s popularity as a dance band started to wane, Martin Kemp decided to lean in a more soulful ...

Let’s be honest: Love songs always hit right in the feels. A ballad can transform from a regular song into the soundtrack of your relationship—whether you’re celebrating your 25th anniversary or just ...

The male-female duet has long been a part of the pop music scene. But perhaps no era featured this type of song quite like the 1980s. It helped that many popular films of the era required just such a ...

There is something about early '80s songs that have the power to transport us to a simpler, more care-free and wild time: In 1981, the first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched, the Cold War was ...

With the decade’s incessant use of neon, pastel suits too bright for the human eye, unattractive mullets, as well as the release of tacky, over-the-top films like “Top Gun” and “Pretty in Pink,” the ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

Despite ruling the summer of 2012 with the inescapable “Call Me Maybe,” Carly Rae Jepsen still feels like an underdog. Perhaps it’s because the Canadian Idol veteran’s music lands squarely on pop’s ...

It's prom season again, and while most schools will likely play songs like Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" (edited, of course) and Calvin Harris' "Sweet Nothing" at this year's dance, we ...

From Beyoncé and Adele to Etta James and Otis Redding, we ranked the best romantic songs ever made. Nat King Cole, Bobby Caldwell, and Luther Vandross also feature on Insider's list. "I Will Always ...