How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Rebellion
You want a song that makes people jump, think, or throw a fist in the air. You want words that bruise and melodies that feel like permi...
How to Write Songs About Fragility
You want vulnerability that sounds fierce not fragile. You want songs that make the listener feel seen instead of second hand embarrass...
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 Heartbreak
You want a song that makes people feel seen and possibly ugly cry at 2 a.m. You want lines that land like a punch and a melody that fee...
How to Write Songs About Meter
Meter is the invisible traffic cop of rhythm. It tells beats where to stand, when to march, and when to moonwalk. You can write songs t...
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 Childhood
Want to turn that crooked backyard swing, your grandma's cereal bowl, or the mixtape you made on a boombox into a song that actually la...
How to Write Songs About Legends
You want a song that makes someone believe ancient fires still burn or that a small town rumor lives forever. You want to write about a...
How to Write Songs About Culture
You want to write songs about culture that feel true and not performative. You want lines that make people nod, cry, laugh, and maybe a...
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...