Posts by Toni Mercia
How to Write Noise Music Lyrics
Want your lyrics to be a wrecking ball or a haunted fax machine? Noise music throws the rulebook into a bonfire and listens to the embe...
Minneapolis Sound Songwriting Advice
Want to write songs that sound like they grew up on fried purple neon and rolled out of a drum machine with attitude? The Minneapolis S...
How to Write a Song About Jealousy
Jealousy is messy, human, and musical. It makes people say things they regret and hum things they crave. It can carry a beat, a hook, a...
How to Write Crossover Music Lyrics
You want your song to live in two playlists at once. You want the country aunt to feel it on the porch and the club kid to find it in b...
How to Write Vaporwave Lyrics
Vaporwave lyrics should feel like a sun faded commercial you remember but never lived through. They should taste like static, shopping ...
Progressive Country Songwriting Advice
Before diving into the world of progressive country songwriting, it's essential to understand the genre itself. Progressive country, al...
How to Write Gothabilly Lyrics
You want a song that smells like black lipstick and motor oil. You want lines that are spooky and funny at the same time. You want word...
Universal Music Group Managers in NYC
New York City – the concrete jungle where dreams and beats are born, and where the high-stakes world of music management intersects wit...
How to Write Early Hardcore [Fr] Songs
You want a song that hits like a fist and stays in the skull like a cheap tattoo. Early hardcore is brutal, quick, honest, and sometime...
How to Write Songs About Childhood
Want to turn that crooked backyard swing, your grandma's cereal bowl, or the mixtape you made on a boombox into a song that actually la...