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 Insecurity
Insecurity makes great material and terrible company. It is that jittery backstage light that shows every sweat stain. It is the voice ...
How to Write Songs About Composition
You want to write a song about songwriting without sounding like a pretentious music professor. Or maybe you want to be gloriously pett...
How to Write Songs About Home
Home is not a place only. Home is a mood. Home is a burnt spoon in a drawer. Home is the couch that remembers your shape. Songs about h...
How to Write Songs About Desire
You want your listener to feel a heat that makes them move, call, cry, and maybe text an ex at 2 a.m. Desire is the engine of countless...
How to Write Songs About Ambiance
You want your song to smell like coffee, neon, rain, or warm plastic wrapped in nostalgia. You want the listener to walk into a moment ...
How to Write Songs About Song
You want to write a song about song that actually feels like a song and not a journal entry read aloud at three a.m. A song about song ...
How to Write Songs About Dreams vs. Reality
You want a song that makes listeners wake up and say wait did I just dream that or was that real. Songs about dreams and the space betw...
How to Write Songs About Pessimism
Want to write a song that smells like rain on old promises? Good. Pessimism is rich territory. It is not the same as misery theater. Pe...
How to Write Songs About Simile
You want lines that hit like a freight train of feeling but sound like a text from your best friend. Similes are one of the songwriting...