How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Viewpoint
Viewpoint is the secret actor in every song. It tells the audience who is talking, where we stand in the room, and which parts of the s...
How to Write Songs About Chorus
You want the chorus to hit like a mic drop. Whether you mean the chorus as the emotional center of the song or you want to write a song...
How to Write Songs About Serenity
You want a song that makes someone breathe differently. You want ears to unclench. You want a verse that feels like a blanket and a cho...
How to Write Songs About Cities
Cities are messy, loud, beautiful, ridiculous, and brutal in equal measure. That makes them perfect songwriting fuel. You can write a l...
How to Write Songs About Perseverance
You want a song that makes people stand up in the kitchen, wipe cereal off their face, and keep going even though life just delivered a...
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...
How to Write Songs About Foes
You want a song that feels like a mic drop. You want lines that sting, a melody that sinks into the cortex, and a chorus that people re...
How to Write Songs About Isolation
Isolation is the raw material of modern music. It is the small apartment with one light on at three in the morning. It is the group cha...
How to Write Songs About Creativity
You want a song that makes creative thinking sound sexy, messy, and honest. You want lyrics that name the fear and the thrill at once. ...
How to Write Songs About Experience
Want your songs to feel like truth in a bottle? Good. That is exactly the plan. Songs about experience are the ones that make people no...