How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Disagreement
You want an argument the audience can feel without needing subtitles. You want a song that smells like a kitchen argument at 2 a.m. and...
How to Write Songs About Protest
You want a song that people can shout at a march, hum on a bus ride, and feel in their bones when they wake up angry at dawn. Good. Tha...
How to Write Songs About Conflict
You want the listener to feel the room heat up and then decide whether to walk out or throw a glass. Conflict creates emotion. Conflict...
How to Write Songs About Strength
You want a song that steels someone up and still sounds human. You want lines that land like a fist bump and melodies that let people b...
How to Write Songs About Past vs. Future
Want to write a song that slaps and actually means something? Great. You are about to explore the easiest high concept in songwriting a...
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 Realism
You want your song to feel true enough to bruise. You want listeners to point at the lyrics and say that is literally me or that is som...
How to Write Songs About Rain
Rain is the cheat code of songwriting. It is a mood, a sound, and a metaphor all at once. It carries regret, relief, sex, loneliness, j...
How to Write Songs About Fantasy
You want to build a kingdom inside three minutes and make people care. You want lyrics that read like a page turner and melodies that f...
How to Write Songs About Authenticity
Authenticity is the thing listeners say they want and then immediately judge you for when you try too hard. Welcome to the paradox. You...