How to Write Songs About Life Situations
How to Write a Song About Captivity And Imprisonment
You want a song that feels like a cell opening or slamming shut. You want lines that make the listener taste metal, feel the stretch of...
How to Write a Song About Dance Studios
You want a song that smells like rosin and regret and makes people nod their heads while remembering the warmup playlist. Dance studios...
How to Write a Song About Moving To A New City
You are packing feelings into a cardboard box and trying to make them sing. Moving to a new city is messy, loud, romantic, pathetic, br...
How to Write a Song About Bullying
Want to write a song about bullying that hits like a gut punch and then hands out a hug? Great. You also want to avoid sounding preachy...
How to Write a Song About Global Warming
You want a song that matters and still slaps. You want lyrics that do not sound like a biology lecture or a protest chant that fell asl...
How to Write a Song About Therapy And Counseling
You want a song that nails the weird, sacred, messy truth of therapy without sounding like a TED talk or a bad diary entry. Good. Thera...
How to Write a Song About Negotiation
You can make bargaining sound sexy. You can turn a tense meeting, a landlord fight, a label conversation, or a breakup debate into a ci...
How to Write a Song About Conducting
Yes you can write a song about a person waving a stick and somehow make it feel cinematic, human, and oddly horny. Conducting is dramat...
How to Write a Song About Recording Studios
You want to write a song that makes someone who has never been inside a studio feel the sticky carpet and smell the burnt coffee. You w...
How to Write a Song About Social Impact
You want a song that does two things at once. It must slap as an earworm and also wake somebody up enough to sign something or pick up ...