How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Failure
Failure is the secret club every artist is in whether they admit it or not. You have flubbed a verse in front of a producer. You have w...
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 Survival
You want a song that sounds like a pulse check from the edge of the map. You want lines that make listeners feel seen even if they have...
How to Write Songs About Tolerance
You want a song that makes people feel less alone and more awake. You want a chorus that can be sung at a backyard cookout, a classroom...
How to Write Songs About Compassion
You want a song that actually feels like a hug and not a motivational poster with a drum loop. You want lyrics that pierce without prea...
How to Write Songs About Cities
Cities are messy, loud, beautiful, ridiculous, and brutal in equal measure. That makes them perfect songwriting fuel. You can write a l...
How to Write Songs About Responsibility
Responsibility is messy, honest, and oddly magnetic. It is the pizza box you forgot to throw out the week your life collapsed. It is th...
How to Write Songs About Dreams vs. Reality
You want a song that makes listeners wake up and say wait did I just dream that or was that real. Songs about dreams and the space betw...
How to Write Songs About Weather
Weather is dramatic without trying. It moves without consent. It shows up at weddings and funerals. It ruins first dates, makes lovers ...
How to Write Songs About Identity crisis
You are not the only one who has googled themselves at 2 a.m. Identity crises are the secret fuel of great music. They make people paus...