How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Childhood
Want to turn that crooked backyard swing, your grandma's cereal bowl, or the mixtape you made on a boombox into a song that actually la...
How to Write Songs About Heartache
Heartache songs are emotional land mines that also sell out small venues. They make strangers cry on public transit and make your ex wo...
How to Write Songs About Death
You want a song about death that lands like a hand on the shoulder and not like a bad eulogy. You want lyrics that are honest without b...
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 Joy
You want a song that makes people grin like they just found free pizza. You want the chorus to be the audio equivalent of sunlight thro...
How to Write Songs About Structure
Structure is sexy when you know how to sell it. You can write a song about a building, a friendship, social systems, or the architectur...
How to Write Songs About Diversity
You want to write a song that celebrates people, cultures, and identities without sounding like a press release or a performative tweet...
How to Write Songs About Melody
You want songs that people hum in the shower and text to their ex later for no good reason. You want melody that grabs attention on bar...
How to Write Songs About Pets
Pets are the emotional cheat codes of songwriting. They make people smile in the middle of doom scrolling. They are adorable, chaotic, ...
How to Write Songs About Narration
You want your listener to feel like they are sitting in on a confession, a movie, or a messy voicemail from a version of you that has a...