How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Assessment
Assessment is boring until you turn it into a savage earworm. You know that feeling when your stomach drops during an exam or when your...
How to Write Songs About Activism
You want your music to matter. You want people to sing with you at a rally. You want a line that makes someone share an Instagram story...
How to Write Songs About Sound
You want to write a song where the voice is not only singing about love or loss but is also pointing a spotlight at the noise, the whis...
How to Write Songs About Honor
You want a song that honors something bigger than a mood. You want a lyric that carries weight without sounding preachy. You want melod...
How to Write Songs About Wholeness
You want a song that feels like a warm, honest hug for the soul. Not a Hallmark card shoved into a drum loop. You want language that is...
How to Write Songs About Distance
Distance is a songwriting goldmine. It is the empty chair at the table. It is the unread message. It is the airport at midnight and the...
How to Write Songs About Battle
You want a song that feels like armor and a torch at the same time. Whether you are writing about literal combat or the kind of fight t...
How to Write Songs About Seasons
Seasons are songwriting cheat codes. They give you instant mood, visual detail, and emotional shape. Use them like a dramatic scaffoldi...
How to Write Songs About Failure
Failure is the secret club every artist is in whether they admit it or not. You have flubbed a verse in front of a producer. You have w...
How to Write Songs About Inaction
You want to write a song that makes doing nothing feel like a plot twist. Songs about inaction are quietly violent. They trap a listene...