Posts by Toni Mercia
How to Write a Song About Gender Identity
You want a song that matters. You want lines that land like a hug and a production that gives the lyric room to breathe. Songs about ge...
Zydeco Songwriting Advice
Zydeco music, originating from Louisiana, is a unique blend of French, Spanish, African, and Caribbean influences. This genre is charac...
Shibuya-Kei Songwriting Advice
You want your song to smell like a vintage vinyl crate found behind a Tokyo boutique while still sounding like your weird brain made it...
How to Write a Song About Dance And Movement
You want people to hear your song and move without thinking. You want the chorus to feel like a permission slip to shake it out. You wa...
How To Write A Hip Hop Song
You want a hip hop song that punches the first time and grows teeth on the second listen. You want bars that make people nod and a hook...
How to Write Sufi Rock Songs
You want music that sounds like incense and amp feedback had a genius baby. Sufi rock mixes devotional intensity, ecstatic phrasing, an...
How to Write Modal Jazz Lyrics
Modal jazz is mood work not roadmap work. You are not following a string of chord instructions. You are stepping into a sonic room and ...
How to Write Experimental Hip Hop Lyrics
You want bars that feel like a glitch in the matrix. You want images so weird they become earworms. You want flows that throw listeners...
How to Write Progressive House Songs
You want progressive house that makes people raise their hands at 2 a.m. You want the journey to feel cinematic and inevitable. You wan...
How to Write Lyrics About Silence And Solitude
You want a song that makes silence feel like an object you can hold. You want lines that make the listener notice small sounds. You wan...