How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Anger
You want a song that feels like a packed room yelling back at your feelings. You want language that stings and melody that carries teet...
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 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 Faith
You want a song about faith that does not feel like a pamphlet or a sermon. You want the feeling in the chest to translate into lines p...
How to Write Songs About Platonic love
Your best friend deserves a bop. So does your ride or die roommate. So does the person who taught you how to tune a bass and how to eat...
How to Write Songs About Human rights
You want a song that wakes people up and does not sound like a PTA lecture. Good. Human rights songs work best when they are brave, cle...
How to Write Songs About Religion
Religion as a song topic is a loaded amp ready to blow up in the best way. It can comfort, provoke, convert, confuse, celebrate, or sta...
How to Write Songs About Fate
You want fate to feel personal and cinematic at the same time. You want lines that read like a fortune cookie and sting like an old tex...
How to Write Songs About Talk
You want a song that feels like eavesdropping on the best conversation of your life. You want lines that sound like a real text thread....
How to Write Songs About Symbols
Symbols are the cheat codes of songwriting. A single image can carry a whole mood, a backstory, and a culture sized crater of meaning. ...