How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Human rights
You want a song that wakes people up and does not sound like a PTA lecture. Good. Human rights songs work best when they are brave, cle...
How to Write Songs About Darkness
You want a song that feels like walking into a room and finding the light switched off on purpose. You want the listener to feel the ch...
How to Write Songs About Opinion
You want to say something and make people feel something, not just nod politely. Songs about opinion have teeth. They can comfort, anno...
How to Write Songs About Blueprint
You want a song that uses blueprints as more than a prop. You want the word to live in the chorus and breathe in the verse. You want th...
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 Perspective
Perspective is the secret sauce that turns an okay lyric into something your listener remembers and repeats at party karaoke. Not every...
How to Write Songs About Pause
You want your song to make silence feel like a character. You want the listener to notice the space between notes as much as the notes ...
How to Write Songs About Opponents
You want to write a song that calls someone out without sounding petty or boring. Maybe you have a rival who keeps stealing your spotli...
How to Write Songs About Civil rights
You want a song that hits like a truth bomb and also does not make things worse. You want to honor people who fought and struggle for j...
How to Write Songs About Innocence
You want a song that feels like a childhood memory and punches like an honest adult confession. Songs about innocence are a tricky spec...