How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Perseverance
You want a song that makes people stand up in the kitchen, wipe cereal off their face, and keep going even though life just delivered a...
How to Write Songs About Storytelling
Story songs are the songs that make people text their friends with one line, that sit in the back of your head like a guilty pleasure, ...
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 Realism
You want your song to feel true enough to bruise. You want listeners to point at the lyrics and say that is literally me or that is som...
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 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 Pain
Pain is a universal currency in songwriting. Everyone carries a version of it. Some people hide it under a poker face and a scented can...
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 Stop
You want the moment in the song where everything halts and the listener feels it in their bones. Whether your song is about stopping a ...
How to Write Songs About Collaboration
Collaboration is messy and magical. You will laugh. You will argue about a single syllable as if it is a national emergency. You will m...