How to Write Songs
How to Write Alegrías Songs
You want sonic sunshine with grit. You want a song that makes people clap, stomp, and cry at the same time. You want the kind of alegrí...
How to Write Tropicalia Songs
You want a song that smells like warm rain on concrete and a protest banner folded into a love letter. Tropicalia or Tropicália is a mo...
How to Write Political Hip Hop Songs
You want your music to do two things at once. Make people bob their heads and then make them think, or act, or at least feel guilt abou...
How to Write Dream Pop Songs
You want music that sounds like cotton candy at midnight. You want guitars that shimmer like distant neon and vocals that feel like a s...
How to Write Big Beat Songs
You want beats that hit like a freight train and hooks that your crowd yells back at you. Big Beat is a sound that lives loud, proud, a...
How to Write Progressive Pop Songs
Progressive pop sounds like a contradiction at first. Pop wants the chorus to slap hard and fast. Progressive music wants to take you o...
How to Write Vaporwave Songs
You want a song that smells like a late checkout at a mall that no longer exists. You want reverb that feels like a ceiling too high to...
How to Write Seggae Songs
Seggae is the musical love child of sega and reggae. Think of it as a cultural smoothie that tastes like sun, sea, protest, and sticky ...
How to Write Country Rap Songs
You want boots and bass to sit in the same car and not fight. You want verses that spit truth and choruses that make folks sing along i...
How to Write Isolationism Songs
Want to write songs that make people feel seen while they binge scroll at 2 AM? Whether you mean personal isolation, quarantine era sol...