How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Service
You want to write a song that honors work done for others. Maybe you are writing about a server who stays late for a table of regulars....
How to Write Songs About Conflict
You want the listener to feel the room heat up and then decide whether to walk out or throw a glass. Conflict creates emotion. Conflict...
How to Write Songs About Ambiance
You want your song to smell like coffee, neon, rain, or warm plastic wrapped in nostalgia. You want the listener to walk into a moment ...
How to Write Songs About Detachment
You want a song that feels like pulling your hand out of warm water and deciding that is enough. Detachment songs live in that thin gra...
How to Write Songs About Inaction
You want to write a song that makes doing nothing feel like a plot twist. Songs about inaction are quietly violent. They trap a listene...
How to Write Songs About Free will
You want a song that wrestles with destiny and makes people feel seen on the subway. You want philosophy that does not sound like a lec...
How to Write Songs About Analysis
You want a song about analysis that does not read like a professor wrote the liner notes. You do not want a track that sounds like a bo...
How to Write Songs About Mood
You do not need to name the feeling to make a listener feel it. You want a song that smells like a place, moves like a memory, and make...
How to Write Songs About Pattern
Patterns are the boring stuff that secretly runs our lives. Commuting routes. Bad habits. The way your friend always texts at 2 a.m. Pa...
How to Write Songs About Assembly
You want a song about putting things together that actually feels like life and not like an instruction manual read by a robot. Whether...