How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Freedom
You want to sing about freedom that actually lands. Not the generic banner with tired lines. Not the obvious metaphor that sounds like ...
How to Write Songs About Celebration
You want people to clap at the exact moment you planned it. You want a chorus that makes strangers sing along. You want a song that tur...
How to Write Songs About Connection
You want a song that grabs someone by the lonely part of their brain and convinces it that it is not alone. You want lyrics that read l...
How to Write Songs About Makeups
Makeup is more than mascara and contour. Makeup is armor. Makeup is ritual. Makeup is the thing you use to become a version of yourself...
How to Write Songs About Rain
Rain is the cheat code of songwriting. It is a mood, a sound, and a metaphor all at once. It carries regret, relief, sex, loneliness, j...
How to Write Songs About Assembly
You want a song about putting things together that actually feels like life and not like an instruction manual read by a robot. Whether...
How to Write Songs About Heritage
You want a song about your roots or someone else’s roots that actually matters. You want to avoid sounding like a college paper or a to...
How to Write Songs About Insecurity
Insecurity makes great material and terrible company. It is that jittery backstage light that shows every sweat stain. It is the voice ...
How to Write Songs About Power
You want a song that makes the room lean forward. You want a chorus that feels like someone turning the lights on. You want verses that...
How to Write Songs About Song
You want to write a song about song that actually feels like a song and not a journal entry read aloud at three a.m. A song about song ...