How to Write Songs About Life Situations
How to Write a Song About Minimalism
You want a song that sounds like an empty room and still makes the listener cry in the bathtub at midnight. Minimalism in songwriting i...
How to Write a Song About Getting Fired
Getting fired hurts like a public breakup with your bank account. You are angry, embarrassed, relieved, terrified, and weirdly poetic a...
How to Write a Song About Racing And Speed
You want the listener to feel tires smoking, heartbeat rising, and the finish line breathing down their neck. You want an adrenaline ru...
How to Write a Song About Expressive Arts
You want a song that smells like paint and moves like a body. You want listeners to walk through a gallery and hum your chorus the way ...
How to Write a Song About Apprenticeship
You want a song that pulls the thread between sweat and wisdom. You want lines that make listeners feel calluses, coffee breath, and th...
How to Write a Song About Going Through A Divorce
Yes you can make art out of the worst year of your life and still sound like a human. Divorce lyrics can be tender, funny, savage, or q...
How to Write a Song About Social Causes
You want your music to matter and not just trend for a day. You want lyrics that land like a call to arms without sounding preachy. You...
How to Write a Song About Problem-Solving
You want a song that makes people feel less alone when facing messy real life problems. You want hooks that stick, lines that sound lik...
How to Write a Song About Aging
Aging is a playlist with messy tracks. It can be funny, brutal, tender, petty, nostalgic, confused, and strangely freeing all at once. ...
How to Write a Song About Escapism
You want a song that makes people step out of their small lives for three minutes and think they are on a stolen plane to someplace bet...