How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Realism
You want your song to feel true enough to bruise. You want listeners to point at the lyrics and say that is literally me or that is som...
How to Write Songs About Presentation
You want a song that makes stage fright feel like a character in the story. You want lines that an audience can mouth when the mic is h...
How to Write Songs About Leadership
You want a song that makes people stand a little taller. You want words that could be printed on a mug and still make someone act. You ...
How to Write Songs About Composition
You want to write a song about songwriting without sounding like a pretentious music professor. Or maybe you want to be gloriously pett...
How to Write Songs About Empowerment
Want to write a song that makes someone stand a little taller and maybe break a little stuff in a good way? Empowerment songs are like ...
How to Write Songs About Verse
Yes you read that title and laughed a little. You might be thinking write songs about verses which sounds like a meta art project or yo...
How to Write Songs About Fragility
You want vulnerability that sounds fierce not fragile. You want songs that make the listener feel seen instead of second hand embarrass...
How to Write Songs About Trees
You could write a sad breakup song or a dumb party anthem. Or you could write a song about a tree and sound like you discovered the hum...
How to Write Songs About Urban life
You want your music to feel like a walk across the city at midnight. You want lyrics that smell like cheap coffee and wet asphalt. You ...
How to Write Songs About Idealism
Idealism in a song should feel like a spark not a lecture. You want a track that makes people look up from their phones and remember wh...