How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Recovery from addiction
You want the song to matter and to not blow it. You want lyrics that are honest without being exploitative. You want a chorus that hold...
How to Write Songs About Motivation
You want a song that makes someone lace up shoes, open a laptop, or text their boss that they are done being passive. You want a chorus...
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 Longing
Longing is the music of wanting that never gets boring. It is the ache in your chest when you think about a late night text that never ...
How to Write Songs About Fantasy
You want to build a kingdom inside three minutes and make people care. You want lyrics that read like a page turner and melodies that f...
How to Write Songs About Darkness
You want a song that feels like walking into a room and finding the light switched off on purpose. You want the listener to feel the ch...
How to Write Songs About Identity
You want a song that smells like you without being a diary entry that only you can enjoy. You want a lyric that makes someone else nod ...
How to Write Songs About Justice
You want your song to land like a street sign for the heart. You want people to sing your chorus while they march or put your line in a...
How to Write Songs About Endings
You want an ending that lands like someone finally saying the thing everyone already knew. You want lyrics that make your listener nod,...
How to Write Songs About Friendship
Friendship songs are the emotional confetti of music. They celebrate the late night laughs, call out the betrayal, soothe a moving away...