How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Human rights
You want a song that wakes people up and does not sound like a PTA lecture. Good. Human rights songs work best when they are brave, cle...
How to Write Songs About Mountains
You want a mountain song that makes people feel altitude without needing oxygen. Whether you mean the literal kind with rock and wind, ...
How to Write Songs About Determination
You want a song that makes people sit up, square their shoulders, and feel like finishing something they started. A determination song ...
How to Write Songs About Clarification
You want to write a song that untangles the noise in your head and hands it back to the listener like a clear receipt. Songs about clar...
How to Write Songs About Social justice
You want your song to do more than sound good on a playlist. You want it to make someone open their eyes, text a friend, or stand up at...
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 Deconstruction
You want to write about falling apart without sounding like a dull seminar. You want the lyric to feel honest, not performative. You wa...
How to Write Songs About Chaos
You want to turn a beautiful mess into a song people remember. Maybe your life looks like a stack of mismatched receipts, three half ch...
How to Write Songs About Work
Work is a mood. Work is a story. Work is therapy with a drum machine. If your day job gives you anger, joy, awkward romance, or a recur...
How to Write Songs About Detail
Details are the difference between a forgettable line and a lyric that tattooed itself on a listener. If you want people to sing your s...