How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Outsider
You want a song that makes room for the person who never quite fit the club photo. You want lines that sting with truth and hug with em...
How to Write Songs About Education
You want a song that teaches without sounding like a dusty lecture. You want lyrics that hit home with students parents teachers and li...
How to Write Songs About Judgment
You want a song that pinches the truth and then makes the listener laugh or wince or both. Songs about judgment live in that weird pock...
How to Write Songs About Approach
Approach is the emotional moment before action. It is the breath before the kiss, the wobble before the stage lights, the thumb hoverin...
How to Write Songs About Closeness
You want a song that feels like being folded into someone's jacket on a rainy night. You want the listener to think the singer knows th...
How to Write Songs About Collaboration
Collaboration is messy and magical. You will laugh. You will argue about a single syllable as if it is a national emergency. You will m...
How to Write Songs About Knowledge
You want a song that makes people think and feel at the same time. You want listeners to hum the chorus and later tell a friend about t...
How to Write Songs About Breakups
You want a breakup song that feels like someone stole your journal and put it on the radio. You want lines people quote on social feeds...
How to Write Songs About Continuation
You want a song that feels like tomorrow without pretending yesterday did not happen. A song about continuation is not a promise. It is...
How to Write Songs About Youth
You want songs that feel like a mixtape burned in the backseat of a first car. You want lines that nail the ache, the stupid bravery, a...