How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Reality
You want a song that feels true enough to bruise. You want listeners to nod like they just recognized themselves in a stranger. Writing...
How to Write Songs About Ignorance
Ignorance is a juicy topic. It is messy, human, and full of contradiction. Everyone has been blissfully unaware, intentionally tuned ou...
How to Write Songs About Desire
You want your listener to feel a heat that makes them move, call, cry, and maybe text an ex at 2 a.m. Desire is the engine of countless...
How to Write Songs About Consequences
You want a song that slaps and makes people feel the fallout. Songs about consequences live in that delicious pain that follows choices...
How to Write Songs About Fairy tales
You want a song that feels like a storybook shoved into a speaker. You want imagery that smells like wet leaves and stolen bread. You w...
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 Followership
You want a song that pins down why people follow someone and makes listeners say yes to the feeling every time. Followership is weird, ...
How to Write Songs About Unpredictability
Unpredictability is a mood, a weather report, and a character flaw all at once. It makes people stay, leave, laugh, and then cry in the...
How to Write Songs About Sacrifice
Sacrifice is dramatic currency. It buys stakes, reveals character, and makes listeners either cry into their oat milk or fist pump for ...
How to Write Songs About Tolerance
You want a song that makes people feel less alone and more awake. You want a chorus that can be sung at a backyard cookout, a classroom...