How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Chronicle
You want to turn time into a song. You want a track that reads like a page from a diary but hits like a stadium chant. Songs about chro...
How to Write Songs About Leisure
You want a song that captures the smell of sunscreen, the exact angle of sunlight on a sofa, and the way your phone buzzes but you do n...
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 Unpredictability
Unpredictability is a mood, a weather report, and a character flaw all at once. It makes people stay, leave, laugh, and then cry in the...
How to Write Songs About Engagement
You want a song that makes someone drop the fork and stare at the person across the table. You want a line that makes a partner cry in ...
How to Write Songs About Legacy
Legacy feels big and heavy until you start writing lines and it becomes personal and messy and human. You do not need to reinvent etern...
How to Write Songs About Memories
Memories are emotional landmines and treasure chests at the same time. You can step on one and blow up in a puddle of tears. You can op...
How to Write Songs About Activity
Want to write songs about doing things that feel as electric as a skateboard wheel hitting pavement? Good. Activity songs are the secre...
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 Foolishness
Foolishness is a songwriting gift wrapped in embarrassment and handed to you by life. People will laugh at the moment and sing along to...