How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Distraction
Distraction is not a failure. It is a goldmine for songwriting. You are writing about a feeling that every listener knows intimately. P...
How to Write Songs About Recovery
You want a song that holds truth without being a lecture. You want lines that make people nod and cry and laugh because they recognize ...
How to Write Songs About Isolation
Isolation is the raw material of modern music. It is the small apartment with one light on at three in the morning. It is the group cha...
How to Write Songs About Innovation
You want a song that makes people imagine a prototype in their head and feel like they are part of the launch party. Songs about innova...
How to Write Songs About Contrast
Contrast is the secret sauce that makes songs feel alive. If your music is a meal, contrast is the hot sauce that wakes up the palate. ...
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 Diversity
You want to write a song that celebrates people, cultures, and identities without sounding like a press release or a performative tweet...
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 Experience
Want your songs to feel like truth in a bottle? Good. That is exactly the plan. Songs about experience are the ones that make people no...
How to Write Songs About Productivity
You want a song that turns to do lists into something a crowd can scream back at a bar or whisper into their earbuds at 2 a.m. Producti...