How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Conversation
You want your song to feel like you are eavesdropping on something honest and messy. You want characters who speak like actual humans. ...
How to Write Songs About Awareness
You want your song to make people wake up, feel something, and still bop along in the car. Songs about awareness are tricky. If you get...
How to Write Songs About Order
You want a song about order that does not sound like a lecture or a janitor giving a TED talk. You want lines that are clever without b...
How to Write Songs About Youth
You want songs that feel like a mixtape burned in the backseat of a first car. You want lines that nail the ache, the stupid bravery, a...
How to Write Songs About Uniqueness
You want a song that screams you without actually screaming into the void. You want lyrics that make strangers text you gifs to say tha...
How to Write Songs About Rivers
Rivers are dramatic by default. They carry history, secrets, lovers, trash, and hope. They are weather with a bank. Rivers can be a cha...
How to Write Songs About Cooperation
You want a song that celebrates teamwork without sounding like a corporate training video. You want lyrics that feel human and messy. Y...
How to Write Songs About Adversaries
You want to write about someone who wronged you and make it art and not a passive aggressive voicemail. Songs about adversaries are del...
How to Write Songs About Love
You want a love song that does something other than smell like clichés from a greeting card. You want lyrics that land, a hook that get...
How to Write Songs About Magic
You want a song that feels like a spell. You want lyrics that sparkle, melodies that lift the hair on the back of the neck, and a story...