How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Voice
You want a song that makes someone feel heard. Whether you mean the literal singing voice, the inner voice that nags you at 2 a.m., or ...
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 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 Dependence
Dependence is messy, intimate, embarrassing, and sometimes heroic. It can be a late night reach for your ex name on the phone. It can b...
How to Write Songs About Hope
You want a song that makes people feel lighter and smarter at the same time. You want a chorus someone hums while fighting rush hour or...
How to Write Songs About Perseverance
You want a song that makes people stand up in the kitchen, wipe cereal off their face, and keep going even though life just delivered a...
How to Write Songs About Rivers
Rivers are dramatic by default. They carry history, secrets, lovers, trash, and hope. They are weather with a bank. Rivers can be a cha...
How to Write Songs About Division
You want a song that makes people shout yes or throw their phone across the room. You want a song that captures the crack where things ...
How to Write Songs About Trust
You want a song that makes people feel seen while also making them uncomfortable in the best possible way. Trust is sticky. It is a han...
How to Write Songs About Resolution
You want a song that lands like a mic drop but also feels honest. You want the feeling of something closing or changing to hit the list...