How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Escapism
You want listeners to step out of their apartment and into another life for three minutes. You want them to smell a foreign city, feel ...
How to Write Songs About Warriors
You want a song that makes people feel like they are charging into battle even if they are just charging their phone battery in bed. So...
How to Write Songs About Birds
Birds are tiny philosophers with wings and ridiculous attitudes. They are great at dramatic entrances. They will peck at your window at...
How to Write Songs About Redemption
Redemption songs hit different. They can make hair stand up. They can make an audience nod like they finally understood the plot of the...
How to Write Songs About Passion
You want heat in the song. Not the fake kind that smells like candle wax and a Spotify mood playlist tag. You want a song that makes li...
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 Predictability
Predictability is not boring unless you make it boring. A stale routine can be a goldmine for songwriting when you mine details, tensio...
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 ...
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 Play
You want a song that feels like a playground in your ears. You want to make listeners grin, bounce, or suddenly remember the thrill of ...