How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
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 ...
How to Write Songs About Consequences
You want a song that slaps and makes people feel the fallout. Songs about consequences live in that delicious pain that follows choices...
How to Write Songs About Wind
Wind is both weather and feeling. It can be playful like a friend pulling your hair. It can be menacing like that text from your ex at ...
How to Write Songs About Inspiration
Want to write a song that lifts someone out of bed, out of a bad mood, or out of self doubt? Songs about inspiration do exactly that. T...
How to Write Songs About Exclusion
Exclusion is a song goldmine. It carries sting, shame, humor, and righteous fury. It is the story your aunt tells at Thanksgiving and t...
How to Write Songs About Division
You want a song that makes people shout yes or throw their phone across the room. You want a song that captures the crack where things ...
How to Write Songs About Justice
You want your song to land like a street sign for the heart. You want people to sing your chorus while they march or put your line in a...
How to Write Songs About Treaty
You want a song that makes people feel the weight of paper and the heat of history. You want a chorus that can be sung into a crowd or ...
How to Write Songs About Heartache
Heartache songs are emotional land mines that also sell out small venues. They make strangers cry on public transit and make your ex wo...
How to Write Songs About Comparison
Comparison eats joy and makes great songs. If you have ever scrolled, scrolled again, and felt your chest go tight because your friend ...