How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Regret
Regret is the human superglue. It sticks to memory and refuses to let go. A song about regret can make listeners feel seen, make them w...
How to Write Songs About Start
You want a song that turns beginnings into a hook that hits like coffee on a Monday. Songs about starting land because everyone knows t...
How to Write Songs About Heritage
You want a song about your roots or someone else’s roots that actually matters. You want to avoid sounding like a college paper or a to...
How to Write Songs About Reality
You want a song that feels true enough to bruise. You want listeners to nod like they just recognized themselves in a stranger. Writing...
How to Write Songs About Light
Light is a cheat code for emotion. It can be literal sunlight on a subway window or the glow of a phone at 3 a.m. It can be a neon conf...
How to Write Songs About Passion
You want heat in the song. Not the fake kind that smells like candle wax and a Spotify mood playlist tag. You want a song that makes li...
How to Write Songs About Stars
So you want to write a song about stars. Good choice. Stars are emotionally generous. They give you wonder, yearning, loneliness, hope,...
How to Write Songs About Destruction
You want to make something that feels like an earthquake but still plays on repeat. Songs about destruction are powerful because they a...
How to Write Songs About Recovery from illness
You want to tell the truth without sounding like a medical pamphlet. You want a song that holds the ache and the weird small victories....
How to Write Songs About Togetherness
You want a song that makes people put down their phones and look at the person next to them like, finally, this gets us. Songs about to...