How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Pattern
Patterns are the boring stuff that secretly runs our lives. Commuting routes. Bad habits. The way your friend always texts at 2 a.m. Pa...
How to Write Songs About Competition
Want to write a song that slaps so hard your rival will consider changing careers? Good. Competition songs are a deliciously selfish ar...
How to Write Songs About Focus
You want a song that feels like a laser beam and still has a personality. Songs about focus are tricky. Focus is invisible and messy. I...
How to Write Songs About Tolerance
You want a song that makes people feel less alone and more awake. You want a chorus that can be sung at a backyard cookout, a classroom...
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 Mythology
You want gods in your chorus and monsters in your bridge. You want a mythic line that makes people feel both tiny and epic while they s...
How to Write Songs About Beat
Want to write songs that land on a beat and live there like they pay rent? Whether you mean writing about the concept of the beat in a ...
How to Write Songs About Engagement
You want a song that makes someone drop the fork and stare at the person across the table. You want a line that makes a partner cry in ...
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 Action
You want the listener to feel like the camera is in their chest. You want kinetic verbs, percussion that hits like footsteps, melodies ...