Posts by Toni Mercia
How to Write Lyrics About Recovery from addiction
This is not another twee anthem about getting clean like breakfast cereal solves your problems. If you are writing about recovery you a...
How to Write Songs About Community
You want a song that makes strangers hug each other in the chorus. You want a lyric that turns a crowd into a choir. You want a melody ...
How to Write a Song About Delegation
Delegation is dramatic. It is the moment you stop carrying the grocery bags and hand one to someone else. It is the moment you let your...
How to Write Space Music Lyrics
You want lyrics that feel like a midnight mission control log and like a late night text at the same time. Space music is not just abou...
Good Song Ideas
Good song ideas are small, weird, sticky things. They can arrive as a half sung line in the shower, a ridiculous text, a drum pattern t...
Krautrock Songwriting Advice
Krautrock, a genre that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s in Germany, is characterized by its hypnotic rhythms, repetitive melodies, ...
How to Write British Folk Revival Songs
Want to write songs that smell like peat smoke, library ink, and late night pub confessions? You are in the right place. British folk r...
How to Write Free Jazz Lyrics
This is not a how to write safe pop song guide. This is a permission slip and a game plan for people who want words to behave like brok...
Neue Deutsche Härte Songwriting Advice
You want riffs that hit like a radiator and lyrics that sound like an industrial love letter. Neue Deutsche Härte, abbreviated NDH, is ...
How to Write Nederbeat Songs
Want to write songs that sound like a sweaty Amsterdam club in the sixties with jangly guitars, big melodic hooks, and the sort of atti...