How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Resilience
You want a song that does more than sound good. You want a song that sits in someone during a long night, that appears in their head on...
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...
How to Write Songs About Making
When it comes to writing songs about making, it's essential to understand the concept of making itself. What does making mean to you? I...
How to Write Songs About Belonging
You want listeners to feel seen. You want a line that lands like a hugged chest. You want a chorus that people sing in a room full of s...
How to Write Songs About Rest
You want a song that makes someone sit down and breathe. You want the voice to feel like a bench in the park after a marathon. You want...
How to Write Songs About Movement
You want motion that the listener can feel in their chest and in their shoes. Whether movement is literal travel, a dance floor stomp, ...
How to Write Songs About Trees
You could write a sad breakup song or a dumb party anthem. Or you could write a song about a tree and sound like you discovered the hum...
How to Write Songs About Patience
Patience is not boring. Patience is dramatic. Waiting for a text, waiting for a record label to notice you, waiting for your brain to g...
How to Write Songs About Deception
Deception makes for great drama and even better hooks. Lies, half truths, self tricking, and performance that hides an ache are the fue...
How to Write Songs About Anger
You want a song that feels like a packed room yelling back at your feelings. You want language that stings and melody that carries teet...