How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Identity
You want a song that smells like you without being a diary entry that only you can enjoy. You want a lyric that makes someone else nod ...
How to Write Songs About Control
You want a song that makes people feel held or freed depending on the beat. You want lyrics that smell like power or resistance. You wa...
How to Write Songs About Fairness
You want a song about fairness that lands like a mic drop and not like a lecture from an angry uncle. You want listeners to nod, screen...
How to Write Songs About Inclusion
You want to write a song that invites everyone to sit at the table without sounding like a corporate poster. You want lyrics that land ...
How to Write Songs About Tone
You want your song to feel like a mood in human form. You want a listener to hear the first chord and know whether they should cry, dan...
How to Write Songs About Learning
Learning is messy and beautiful and full of receipts you did not ask for. Whether you are writing about learning to play guitar, learni...
How to Write Songs About Characters
Characters are cheat codes for songwriting. They give you choices, stakes, voice, and a built in arc. A great character makes listeners...
How to Write Songs About Paradox
Paradox in songwriting is emotional cheat code. You tell two truths that seem to cancel each other and the listener leans in. Contradic...
How to Write Songs About Creation
You want to write a song that feels like the first breath. You want lyrics and music that conjure beginnings, births, origin myths, gar...
How to Write Songs About Blueprint
You want a song that uses blueprints as more than a prop. You want the word to live in the chorus and breathe in the verse. You want th...