Posts by Toni Mercia
Los Angeles Music Managers
Picture this: the bright Los Angeles skyline at dusk, where dreams and music mingle in a heady cocktail of creativity, ambition, and en...
How to Write Blues Songs
You want a song that sounds like a scar telling a joke that still hurts. You want a groove that shuffles the room without asking permis...
How to Write Lyrics About Death
Death is a heavy topic and a songwriting goldmine when handled with respect and craft. You want lines that land, not lines that limp. Y...
Ben Folds Five - Brick Song Lyric Breakdown For Songwriters
Brick</strong is the quiet wrecking ball of late nineties piano rock. It moved people the way only a small, honest confession can. I...
How to Write Synth-Pop Lyrics
You want a lyric that glows like neon and sticks like gum under a subway seat. Synth pop lives where nostalgia flirts with futurism and...
How to Write African Heavy Metal Songs
You want riffs that hit like a thunderstorm and lyrics that feel like someone opened your diary and then set it on fire. You want the g...
How to Write Grupera Lyrics
You want lyrics that make abuelas cry and the banda play your chorus on loop. Grupera lyrics live in the sweet spot between corrido sto...
Indo Pop Songwriting Advice
You want a song that hits like nasi goreng at 2 AM. You want a hook that feels obvious the first time you hum it while making tea. You ...
How to Write a Song About Storytelling
You want a song that makes people listen like their last text just exploded. You want characters, stakes, and a chorus that drops like ...
Progressive Folk Songwriting Advice
You like folk but you are done with polite acoustic wallpaper. You want stories that unfold in strange time, harmonies that feel like a...