How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Sentiment
Sentiment is cheap when it is vague. Sentiment is priceless when it is specific enough to make a stranger cry in a grocery aisle. This ...
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 Outsider
You want a song that makes room for the person who never quite fit the club photo. You want lines that sting with truth and hug with em...
How to Write Songs About Engagement
You want a song that makes someone drop the fork and stare at the person across the table. You want a line that makes a partner cry in ...
How to Write Songs About Detail
Details are the difference between a forgettable line and a lyric that tattooed itself on a listener. If you want people to sing your s...
How to Write Songs About Style
Style is louder than a headline. It tells a story before the first lyric lands. Your clothes, your walk, the coffee stain on your jacke...
How to Write Songs About Rhythm
You want a song that makes people move without thinking about it. You want a lyric that feels like a drum hit. You want melody and word...
How to Write Songs About Time
Time is the most relatable subject on the planet. Everyone has too much of it and not enough of it at the same time. Musicians write ab...
How to Write Songs About Warriors
You want a song that makes people feel like they are charging into battle even if they are just charging their phone battery in bed. So...
How to Write Songs About Breakups
You want a breakup song that feels like someone stole your journal and put it on the radio. You want lines people quote on social feeds...