How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Metaphor
Metaphor is the secret weapon every songwriter should steal and never admit to using in public. A great metaphor turns a feeling into a...
How to Write Songs About Characters
Characters are cheat codes for songwriting. They give you choices, stakes, voice, and a built in arc. A great character makes listeners...
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 Teamwork
You want a song that turns a ragtag group into a chantable army. Whether you are writing for a sports team, a corporate campaign, a mus...
How to Write Songs About Silence
Silence is not empty. Silence is full of everything you were too scared to say. If you want to write a song that makes a room lean in, ...
How to Write Songs About Structure
Structure is sexy when you know how to sell it. You can write a song about a building, a friendship, social systems, or the architectur...
How to Write Songs About Building
You want a song that makes people feel the grit of concrete and the warmth of a new foundation. Maybe you mean literal building, like a...
How to Write Songs About Imagery
You want lyrics that stick like gum under a stadium seat. You want lines that make listeners smell old coffee, feel the sting of a chea...
How to Write Songs About Impatience
Impatience is a full time emotion. It shows up in line queues, in DMs that are left on read, in buffering wheels, and in relationships ...
How to Write Songs About Celebration of life
You want to write a song that honors someone and makes people laugh and cry in the same chorus. A celebration of life song must hold te...