How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
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 Structure
Structure is sexy when you know how to sell it. You can write a song about a building, a friendship, social systems, or the architectur...
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 Society
You want to make noise that matters without sounding like a rant from your high school podium. You want a song that grabs a listener in...
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 Separation
You want a song that feels like it was sneaking out of your diary at 2 a.m. You want lines that sting and lines that make listeners lau...
How to Write Songs About Ignorance
Ignorance is a juicy topic. It is messy, human, and full of contradiction. Everyone has been blissfully unaware, intentionally tuned ou...
How to Write Songs About Stop
You want the moment in the song where everything halts and the listener feels it in their bones. Whether your song is about stopping a ...
How to Write Songs About Enemies
You want to write a song that turns anger into something sticky and singable. You want a line that lands like a roast and a chorus that...
How to Write Songs About Celebration
You want people to clap at the exact moment you planned it. You want a chorus that makes strangers sing along. You want a song that tur...