How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Authority
Authority is messy, loud, and adorable when it trips on its own power. It is the teacher who says study but forgets their own homework....
How to Write Songs About Blueprint
You want a song that uses blueprints as more than a prop. You want the word to live in the chorus and breathe in the verse. You want th...
How to Write Songs About Addiction
Trigger warning: This article contains frank discussion of substance use and self harm. If you are in crisis please reach out to local ...
How to Write Songs About Ruins
You want your song to smell like dust and taste like the last cigarette in an abandoned theater. You want listeners to feel the cold st...
How to Write Songs About Community
You want a song that makes strangers hug each other in the chorus. You want a lyric that turns a crowd into a choir. You want a melody ...
How to Write Songs About Platonic love
Your best friend deserves a bop. So does your ride or die roommate. So does the person who taught you how to tune a bass and how to eat...
How to Write Songs About Choice
Choice is dramatic music waiting to happen. Every time a character picks a thing they accept more than an action. They accept a life. T...
How to Write Songs About Doubt
Doubt is the ugly sweater of emotion. It is uncomfortable, it bleeds through your outfit, and yet it is one of the best things you can ...
How to Write Songs About Separation
You want a song that feels like it was sneaking out of your diary at 2 a.m. You want lines that sting and lines that make listeners lau...
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...