How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Alienation
You want songs that make people feel understood without sounding like an internet pity party. Alienation is one of those emotions that ...
How to Write Songs About Celebration
You want people to clap at the exact moment you planned it. You want a chorus that makes strangers sing along. You want a song that tur...
How to Write Songs About Dreams
You want a song that feels like a sleepover in someone else mind. You want weird images, the kind that make people pause the song and r...
How to Write Songs About Empathy
You want listeners to feel seen, not lectured. You want songs that make someone nod in a subway and then text their friend because some...
How to Write Songs About Action
You want the listener to feel like the camera is in their chest. You want kinetic verbs, percussion that hits like footsteps, melodies ...
How to Write Songs About Space
You want a song that makes someone feel weightless on the first listen. Maybe you want to flex with a Bowie style epic. Maybe you want ...
How to Write Songs About Nonconformity
You want a song that refuses to fit the mold and still gets stuck in people heads. You want language that feels like someone flipping t...
How to Write Songs About Deserts
You want a song that tastes like dust and tastes like sunburn and still makes people nod like they understand a secret. Deserts are mus...
How to Write Songs About Recovery from addiction
You want the song to matter and to not blow it. You want lyrics that are honest without being exploitative. You want a chorus that hold...
How to Write Songs About Asymmetry
You want a song that sounds like life when life is off balance. You want lines that tighten like a screw about to give and a melody tha...