How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Control
You want a song that makes people feel held or freed depending on the beat. You want lyrics that smell like power or resistance. You wa...
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 Youth
You want songs that feel like a mixtape burned in the backseat of a first car. You want lines that nail the ache, the stupid bravery, a...
How to Write Songs About Literature
You love a book so much you want to make it sing. You are not alone. Writers fall in love with characters, phrases, images, and moments...
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 Surrender
Want to write a song that makes people exhale and maybe cry into their coffee? Good. Surrender is a rich angle. Surrender is dramatic, ...
How to Write Songs About Fragmentation
You want a song that sounds like a memory with the edges chewed off. You want listeners to feel the jolt of being pulled in pieces and ...
How to Write Songs About Continuation
You want a song that feels like tomorrow without pretending yesterday did not happen. A song about continuation is not a promise. It is...
How to Write Songs About Disagreement
You want an argument the audience can feel without needing subtitles. You want a song that smells like a kitchen argument at 2 a.m. and...
How to Write Songs About Union
You want a song that makes people feel joined up. Maybe you mean two lovers finally synced like wireless earbuds. Maybe you mean a neig...