How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Future
You want a future song that feels prophetic without sounding like a tired sci fi trope. You want listeners to tuck the chorus into a pl...
How to Write Songs About Construction
You want a song that sounds like a job site and a diary at the same time. You want imagery that clicks like a nail gun and a chorus tha...
How to Write Songs About Social justice
You want your song to do more than sound good on a playlist. You want it to make someone open their eyes, text a friend, or stand up at...
How to Write Songs About Duty
Duty is not glamorous. Duty shows up at 6 a.m. with coffee and a flannel shirt. You can make it holy. You can make it tragic. You can m...
How to Write Songs About Connection
You want a song that grabs someone by the lonely part of their brain and convinces it that it is not alone. You want lyrics that read l...
How to Write Songs About Technology
Technology is everywhere and it is dramatic. It ghosts lovers, rewrites identities, steals time, and promises miracles while asking for...
How to Write Songs About Unmaking
You want a song that excavates what falls apart and leaves a bruise that also feels honest enough to heal. Whether you mean the end of ...
How to Write Songs About Method
You want to turn routines, rituals, and messy systems into songs people sing drunk at 2 a.m. Whether your subject is the scientific met...
How to Write Songs About Laziness
You want a song that makes people laugh and nod while they are still lying on the couch. Songs about laziness are basically confessiona...
How to Write Songs About Lyric
So you want to write a song about a lyric. Good. That means you are ready to go meta and make music about music. You are not just chasi...