How to Write Lyrics About Specific Emotions
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 Lyrics About Enemies
You want to write about someone who wronged you and make it feel epic, funny, and shareable. You do not want to sound petty or reckless...
How to Write Lyrics About Breakups
Breakup songs are emotional currency. They are how we process rage, sadness, relief, and the stupid things we did at 2 a.m. They are al...
How to Write Lyrics About Idealism
You want a song that makes people believe something again. You want lines that feel brave without feeling naive. You want imagery that ...
How to Write Lyrics About Collaboration
Collaboration is messy. Collaboration is magical. Collaboration is the reason half your best lines show up in a group chat at 2 a.m. Wr...
How to Write Lyrics About Villains
You want a song about a villain that people sing on the tram and whisper about in group chats. You want danger, charisma, and a line th...
How to Write Lyrics About Genre
You want to sing about genre without sounding like a music nerd at a party who will not stop talking. You want lines that punch, that w...
How to Write Lyrics About Rejection
Rejection is a universal punch to the chest. You have felt it in DMs, at auditions, on a text that never came back, or in an email from...
How to Write Lyrics About Nightmares
You want a song that crawls under the listener's skin and refuses to leave. You want words that smell like cold sweat and stale motel c...
How to Write Lyrics About Mentorship
Mentorship is not a magic filter that makes you better overnight. Mentorship is a messy, human, awkward, beautiful transfer of knowledg...