How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
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 Allegory
You want a song that hits like a metaphor and lands like a revelation. You want listeners to smile when they finally get the twist yet ...
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 Failure
Failure is the secret club every artist is in whether they admit it or not. You have flubbed a verse in front of a producer. You have w...
How to Write Songs About Foolishness
Foolishness is a songwriting gift wrapped in embarrassment and handed to you by life. People will laugh at the moment and sing along to...
How to Write Songs About Recital
You want a song that nails the sweaty palms and bright lights and makes someone remember the time they forgot a page of sheet music. So...
How to Write Songs About Presence
Make your listener feel like they are in the room with you. Songs about presence are not essays about mindfulness. They are invitations...
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 Outsider
You want a song that makes room for the person who never quite fit the club photo. You want lines that sting with truth and hug with em...
How to Write Songs About Form
You want a song that is about form and uses form as the point. You want structure to be the theme instead of something boring that sits...