Writing music for animated features isn't child's play. By Melinda Newman, The Associated Press No disrespect to Disney, but there’s nothing Mickey Mouse when it comes to scoring animated features.

As school starts up again, I have to remind everyone not to forget the best part of summer: the bops. I love summer songs as much as the next person. In fact, for the most part, music is how I define ...

Back when MTV played music, a music video had the power to make a song more popular. (See also: $,$$$,$$$). In Millennial terms, the song would go “viral” on network television. Artists quickly ...

Since the onset of Norwegian pop group A-Ha's 1985 hit record, "Take On Me," the first animated music video to ever be shown on MTV, there's been an undeniable fascination and admiration for the ...

In 1985, two groundbreaking works of animation could be viewed, sometimes in the same hour, on MTV. One was “Take On Me,” the A-ha video in which a woman (actress Bunty Bailey) gets yanked out of a ...

Considered deeply uncool at one point, music from animated movies is back — and singing along is now not only OK for kids, it’s something adults record themselves doing on their phones and share on ...