How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Realization
You want a song that feels like someone switched the lights on in your chest. A realization is that cinematic first breath when you see...
How to Write Songs About Dreams
You want a song that feels like a sleepover in someone else mind. You want weird images, the kind that make people pause the song and r...
How to Write Songs About Influence
You want a song that smells like persuasion but sings like truth. You want a chorus that pulls people into an idea and a verse that sho...
How to Write Songs About Flowers
Flowers are cheap to buy and expensive to feel. They show up at breakups, weddings, funerals, and first dates like tiny emotional stage...
How to Write Songs About Creativity
You want a song that makes creative thinking sound sexy, messy, and honest. You want lyrics that name the fear and the thrill at once. ...
How to Write Songs About Narration
You want your listener to feel like they are sitting in on a confession, a movie, or a messy voicemail from a version of you that has a...
How to Write Songs About Composition
You want to write a song about songwriting without sounding like a pretentious music professor. Or maybe you want to be gloriously pett...
How to Write Songs About Injustice
You want your music to matter. You want a chorus that hits like a protest sign and verses that show the world instead of shouting at it...
How to Write Songs About Idleness
You want a song that turns doing nothing into an idea people want to replay. Idleness is funnier and messier than you think. It is not ...
How to Write Songs About Impatience
Impatience is a full time emotion. It shows up in line queues, in DMs that are left on read, in buffering wheels, and in relationships ...