Contributor: Adam R. Holz

The Chainsmokers’ latest hit has been called a “Millennium romance anthem.” But it has a lot in common with Boomer and GenX love songs from decades past.

Ice Age: Collision Course may be showing the series’ prehistoric age, but in some important ways it also emphasizes traditional ideas about marriage and family.

Actress Hailee Steinfeld makes the leap to the music world in a predictably sensual song.

Justin Bieber and Danish singer MØ collaborate with this EDM act in a track that mostly majors in encouragement and faithfulness … after a stony start.

NEEDTOBREATHE’s sixth album still qualifies for the moniker “Christian rock,” but perhaps not in the ways we normally toss that phrase around.

Katy Perry’s official US Olympic Team anthem brims with smoldering determination, accented by some spiritual reminders of the faith she grew up with.

Do we need to wade through the brutal, cocaine-laced underworld that Bob Mazur inhabits?

Country singer and former American Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina returns with an empowering song for young women … and a few issues to navigate.

The breakdown between naughty and nice in this predictable, formulaic, raunchy flick is about 95% naughty, 5% nice. And that’s probably being generous.

Switchfoot knows we’re broken people sojourning in a broken land. But those hard realities don’t get the last word on its latest hope-drenched effort.

Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of this children’s classic is a delightful story contrasted with the specter of a rather macabre fate.

Demi Lovato continues to step deliberately—and explicitly—away from her teeny-bop roots into much more sensual material.

Central Intelligence takes some sadly predictable detours.

Radiohead’s ninth effort finds the critically acclaimed British alt-rock group once again traversing cryptic, melancholy lyrical territory.

Twenty One Pilots’ latest gritty hit comes to us courtesy of a soundtrack to a dark superhero movie that’s likely to be much grittier.