How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Family
Family songs hit hard because everyone brings baggage to the party. Whether that baggage is a casserole dish that never fits in the ove...
How to Write Songs About Stance
You want a song that does not hide behind polite ambiguity. You want a track that plants a flag, points a camera, or throws a thumb out...
How to Write Songs About Unmaking
You want a song that excavates what falls apart and leaves a bruise that also feels honest enough to heal. Whether you mean the end of ...
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...
How to Write Songs About Productivity
You want a song that turns to do lists into something a crowd can scream back at a bar or whisper into their earbuds at 2 a.m. Producti...
How to Write Songs About Seasons
Seasons are songwriting cheat codes. They give you instant mood, visual detail, and emotional shape. Use them like a dramatic scaffoldi...
How to Write Songs About Teamwork
You want a song that turns a ragtag group into a chantable army. Whether you are writing for a sports team, a corporate campaign, a mus...
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 Growth
Growth songs are not motivational posters with melodies. Growth songs are honest travelogues from one version of you to another version...
How to Write Songs About Agreement
You want a song about agreement that does not sound like a pamphlet from the DMV. A song about agreement can be tender, hilarious, poli...