How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
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 Magic
You want a song that feels like a spell. You want lyrics that sparkle, melodies that lift the hair on the back of the neck, and a story...
How to Write Songs About Action
You want the listener to feel like the camera is in their chest. You want kinetic verbs, percussion that hits like footsteps, melodies ...
How to Write Songs About Escape
You want a song that makes people pack their bags without actually leaving the room. You want lyrics that hit like a key sliding into a...
How to Write Songs About Skepticism
Want to turn doubt into an anthem? Great. Skepticism is a songwriting gold mine. It gives you tension, narrator voice, and a reason for...
How to Write Songs About Inequality
You want your song to land like a truth bomb and not like a lecture from your uncle at Thanksgiving. Songs about inequality can move pe...
How to Write Songs About Past vs. Future
Want to write a song that slaps and actually means something? Great. You are about to explore the easiest high concept in songwriting a...
How to Write Songs About Disconnection
You want a song that makes someone put their phone down in a subway and stare out the window for a minute. You want a lyric that names ...
How to Write Songs About Surrender
Want to write a song that makes people exhale and maybe cry into their coffee? Good. Surrender is a rich angle. Surrender is dramatic, ...
How to Write Songs About Setting goals
You want a song that turns ambition into an earworm. You want lyrics that make a listener feel grit, hope, and that delicious panic at ...