Posts by Toni Mercia
How to Write Songs About Rivers
Rivers are dramatic by default. They carry history, secrets, lovers, trash, and hope. They are weather with a bank. Rivers can be a cha...
How to Write a Song About Physical Fitness
You want a song that makes people warm up, sweat, laugh, cry, or lift heavier than they thought they could. Whether you are writing a g...
How to Write Austropop Songs
You want a song that feels like Vienna at midnight and a beer garden at noon at the same time. You want a chorus that people can chant ...
How to Write Songs About Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition is the songwriting tool that makes a listener stop scrolling and tilt their head. You put two things that do not belong t...
How to Write Lyrics About Machine Learning
So you want to write a song about machine learning that does not sound like a grad student reading a PDF out loud. Good. You are in the...
Western European Songwriting Advice
You write songs. You want them heard. You want them paid for. You want a life that includes both coffee and decent rent. Western Europe...
How to Write Samba Lyrics
You want your words to samba. You want lines that sit inside the rhythm like they were born to be danced to. You want imagery that is t...
Music Industry Agents
Picture this: you're strumming your guitar in a cozy coffeehouse, crafting lyrics that spark movements, and suddenly, a slick music ind...
How to Write a Song About Remixes
You want a song that celebrates remix culture without sounding like a lecture or a DJ bio. You want lines that land for Gen Z and mille...
How to Write Lyrics About Remixes
You are writing lyrics that will survive being chopped, warped, stretched, autotuned to death, and turned into a festival drop. Good. T...