How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Setting
You want a place that feels like a character. You want listeners to smell the coffee, taste the summer air, and remember the streetligh...
How to Write Songs About Change
Change is the theme your fans are living through whether they ask for it or not. You want a song that feels like a mirror and a map at ...
How to Write Songs About Reality
You want a song that feels true enough to bruise. You want listeners to nod like they just recognized themselves in a stranger. Writing...
How to Write Songs About Conversation
You want your song to feel like you are eavesdropping on something honest and messy. You want characters who speak like actual humans. ...
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 Tone
You want your song to feel like a mood in human form. You want a listener to hear the first chord and know whether they should cry, dan...
How to Write Songs About Consequences
You want a song that slaps and makes people feel the fallout. Songs about consequences live in that delicious pain that follows choices...
How to Write Songs About Literature
You love a book so much you want to make it sing. You are not alone. Writers fall in love with characters, phrases, images, and moments...
How to Write Songs About Deconstruction
You want to write about falling apart without sounding like a dull seminar. You want the lyric to feel honest, not performative. You wa...
How to Write Songs About Oration
You want a song that sounds like a speech but hits like a chorus. You want the urgency of a mic drop combined with a melody a crowd can...