How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Satire
Want to write songs that roast the world without sounding like a lecture or a mean tweet? Good. Satire is your musical blunt instrument...
How to Write Songs About Storms
Storms are emotional cheat codes. They are loud, moody, cinematic, and everyone remembers a good thunder clap placed exactly where they...
How to Write Songs About Disassembly
You want a song that makes dismantling feel like a ritual and not a trip to the hardware store. You want the listener to feel sparks, l...
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 Metaphor
Metaphor is the secret weapon every songwriter should steal and never admit to using in public. A great metaphor turns a feeling into a...
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 Triumph
You want a song that makes people stand up, fist pump, and feel seen. You want the moment when the drums hit and the lyric lands to fee...
How to Write Songs About Stars
So you want to write a song about stars. Good choice. Stars are emotionally generous. They give you wonder, yearning, loneliness, hope,...
How to Write Songs About Presence
Make your listener feel like they are in the room with you. Songs about presence are not essays about mindfulness. They are invitations...
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...