How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Animals
Animals make people feel things fast. They can be cute, terrifying, ridiculous, noble, or the perfect mask for messy feelings you canno...
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 Guidance
You want to write a song that feels like a compass for someone who thinks they lost theirs. You want words that land like a hand on a s...
How to Write Songs About Outlook
You want a song that nails a point of view and makes people feel seen. Whether you mean outlook like your life perspective or Outlook l...
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 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 War
You want a song about war that lands like a punch and holds like a hug. You want listeners to feel the dust, the fear, the weird quiet ...
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 Activism
You want your music to matter. You want people to sing with you at a rally. You want a line that makes someone share an Instagram story...
How to Write Songs About Debate
You want a song that argues and entertains. You want lines that land like clever zingers and a chorus that the crowd can chant back lik...