How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Agreement
You want a song about agreement that does not sound like a pamphlet from the DMV. A song about agreement can be tender, hilarious, poli...
How to Write Songs About Perspective
Perspective is the secret sauce that turns an okay lyric into something your listener remembers and repeats at party karaoke. Not every...
How to Write Songs About Symmetry
You want a song that feels inevitable and a little creepy in the best way. Symmetry is a tool that makes music feel tidy and mysterious...
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 Plan
You want a song about a plan that feels human and not like a corporate PowerPoint. You want the listener to nod, laugh, cry, or roll th...
How to Write Songs About Belief
You want a song that makes a listener lean forward and decide to care. Songs about belief are strange beasts. They live at the crossroa...
How to Write Songs About Intelligence
You want to write a song about brains without sounding like your high school psych textbook read by a robot. Good. You also want it to ...
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 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 Opinion
You want to say something and make people feel something, not just nod politely. Songs about opinion have teeth. They can comfort, anno...