How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Makeups
Makeup is more than mascara and contour. Makeup is armor. Makeup is ritual. Makeup is the thing you use to become a version of yourself...
How to Write Songs About Breaking
You want a song that lands the first time a listener nods along in their car and says yes that feels true. Breaking is not one feeling....
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 Judgment
You want a song that pinches the truth and then makes the listener laugh or wince or both. Songs about judgment live in that weird pock...
How to Write Songs About Tradition vs. Change
You want a song that tugs at the family altar and then kicks open the window. You want listeners to feel the warmth of a ritual and the...
How to Write Songs About Naivety
If you want to write a song that sounds like someone who still believes in fairy tales but is writing in a bar bathroom at 2 a.m., this...
How to Write Songs About Animals
Animals make people feel things fast. They can be cute, terrifying, ridiculous, noble, or the perfect mask for messy feelings you canno...
How to Write Songs About Tolerance
You want a song that makes people feel less alone and more awake. You want a chorus that can be sung at a backyard cookout, a classroom...
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 Building
You want a song that makes people feel the grit of concrete and the warmth of a new foundation. Maybe you mean literal building, like a...