How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Religion
Religion as a song topic is a loaded amp ready to blow up in the best way. It can comfort, provoke, convert, confuse, celebrate, or sta...
How to Write Songs About Power
You want a song that makes the room lean forward. You want a chorus that feels like someone turning the lights on. You want verses that...
How to Write Songs About Presentation
You want a song that makes stage fright feel like a character in the story. You want lines that an audience can mouth when the mic is h...
How to Write Songs About Harmony
You want a song that talks about harmony without sounding like a kindergarten music teacher or a yoga retreat brochure. You want lyrics...
How to Write Songs About Conformity
You want a song that calls out the herd without sounding preachy. You want listeners to feel seen, to laugh, to grimace, and to sing th...
How to Write Songs About Stars
So you want to write a song about stars. Good choice. Stars are emotionally generous. They give you wonder, yearning, loneliness, hope,...
How to Write Songs About Mentorship
Mentorship is messy, touching, hilarious, and worth a song. You want a track that honors a teacher, a road dog, a bitter wise friend, o...
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 Adversaries
You want to write about someone who wronged you and make it art and not a passive aggressive voicemail. Songs about adversaries are del...
How to Write Songs About Choice
Choice is dramatic music waiting to happen. Every time a character picks a thing they accept more than an action. They accept a life. T...