How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Adversaries
You want to write about someone who wronged you and make it art and not a passive aggressive voicemail. Songs about adversaries are del...
How to Write Songs About Foes
You want a song that feels like a mic drop. You want lines that sting, a melody that sinks into the cortex, and a chorus that people re...
How to Write Songs About Evaluation
Writing a song about being judged or judging yourself does not have to feel like listening to someone read their annual review aloud. Y...
How to Write Songs About Nostalgia
Nostalgia is not just memory. Nostalgia is a mood that smells like the past and sounds like a page turn. If you want a song that makes ...
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 Knowledge
You want a song that makes people think and feel at the same time. You want listeners to hum the chorus and later tell a friend about t...
How to Write Songs About Truce
You want a song that turns argument into anthem. You want a chorus that reads like a treaty and a verse that shows the small human bone...
How to Write Songs About Rural life
You want a song that smells like diesel, fresh cut hay, and the last good beer at a county fair. You want lines that make people who gr...
How to Write Songs About Detachment
You want a song that feels like pulling your hand out of warm water and deciding that is enough. Detachment songs live in that thin gra...
How to Write Songs About Rejection
You got ghosted. You did the safe thing and leaned in. The universe handed you a No and a blank text bubble. Now you want to write that...