How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Seasons
Seasons are songwriting cheat codes. They give you instant mood, visual detail, and emotional shape. Use them like a dramatic scaffoldi...
How to Write Songs About Villains
You want a song that makes people cheer for the bad guy or at least feel deliciously guilty for vibing with them. Songs about villains ...
How to Write Songs About Metaphor
Metaphor is the secret weapon every songwriter should steal and never admit to using in public. A great metaphor turns a feeling into a...
How to Write Songs About Unmaking
You want a song that excavates what falls apart and leaves a bruise that also feels honest enough to heal. Whether you mean the end of ...
How to Write Songs About Competition
Want to write a song that slaps so hard your rival will consider changing careers? Good. Competition songs are a deliciously selfish ar...
How to Write Songs About Armistice
So you want to write a song about armistice. Great. That means you want to write about endings that are loud enough to change everythin...
How to Write Songs About Symmetry
You want a song that feels inevitable and a little creepy in the best way. Symmetry is a tool that makes music feel tidy and mysterious...
How to Write Songs About Fate
You want fate to feel personal and cinematic at the same time. You want lines that read like a fortune cookie and sting like an old tex...
How to Write Songs About Nutrition
You can make carbs feel like a lover or a villain. You can turn a grocery list into a chorus that slaps. Songs about nutrition are a se...
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 ...