How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Acceptance
You want a song that lands like a hug and a punch at the same time. Acceptance songs are weirdly powerful. They quiet the chaos and the...
How to Write Songs About Birds
Birds are tiny philosophers with wings and ridiculous attitudes. They are great at dramatic entrances. They will peck at your window at...
How to Write Songs About Discord
You want a song that captures the smell of a fight in a group chat. You want the tension, the petty receipts, the pinging anxiety, and ...
How to Write Songs About Escape
You want a song that makes people pack their bags without actually leaving the room. You want lyrics that hit like a key sliding into a...
How to Write Songs About Rebellion
You want a song that makes people jump, think, or throw a fist in the air. You want words that bruise and melodies that feel like permi...
How to Write Songs About Togetherness
You want a song that makes people put down their phones and look at the person next to them like, finally, this gets us. Songs about to...
How to Write Songs About Magic
You want a song that feels like a spell. You want lyrics that sparkle, melodies that lift the hair on the back of the neck, and a story...
How to Write Songs About Failure
Failure is the secret club every artist is in whether they admit it or not. You have flubbed a verse in front of a producer. You have w...
How to Write Songs About Construction
You want a song that sounds like a job site and a diary at the same time. You want imagery that clicks like a nail gun and a chorus tha...
How to Write Songs About Storytelling
Story songs are the songs that make people text their friends with one line, that sit in the back of your head like a guilty pleasure, ...