How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Friends
You want a song that smells like summer BBQs, the couch where secrets got betrayed, or the group chat that never sleeps. Songs about fr...
How to Write Songs About Imbalance
Imbalance is the delicious mess of real life. It is a missed rent payment and a perfect sunrise. It is wanting someone and knowing you ...
How to Write Songs About Family
Family songs hit hard because everyone brings baggage to the party. Whether that baggage is a casserole dish that never fits in the ove...
How to Write Songs About Isolation
Isolation is the raw material of modern music. It is the small apartment with one light on at three in the morning. It is the group cha...
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 Journey
You want a song that makes people want to pack a bag or text their ex or both. Journey songs are emotional road maps. They can be liter...
How to Write Songs About Death
You want a song about death that lands like a hand on the shoulder and not like a bad eulogy. You want lyrics that are honest without b...
How to Write Songs About Critique
You got told your song was amateur hour and you want to write a song about that insult. Or you felt your last chorus was called out by ...
How to Write Songs About Tradition vs. Change
You want a song that tugs at the family altar and then kicks open the window. You want listeners to feel the warmth of a ritual and the...
How to Write Songs About Destiny
Destiny sounds big. It smells like cinematic lighting and smells like smoke machines and it also looks like your ex on the subway at 2 ...