How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Diversity
You want to write a song that celebrates people, cultures, and identities without sounding like a press release or a performative tweet...
How to Write Songs About Choice
Choice is dramatic music waiting to happen. Every time a character picks a thing they accept more than an action. They accept a life. T...
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...
How to Write Songs About Charity
You want a song that helps people and does not make people roll their eyes. You want lyrics that raise money, attention, and dignity at...
How to Write Songs About Truth
If you want a song that hits like sunlight through a motel window you need lyrics that feel true. Truth in a song is not the same as a ...
How to Write Songs About Relationships
You want a song that makes someone text their ex at 2 a.m. Or maybe you want a song that saves you from texting your ex at 2 a.m. Relat...
How to Write Songs About Resilience
You want a song that does more than sound good. You want a song that sits in someone during a long night, that appears in their head on...
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 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...
How to Write Songs About Optimism
You want a song that makes people stand up a little straighter and maybe text their ex that they are fine but also glowing. You want op...