How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Honesty
You want your song to feel like a truth bomb wrapped in a melody people actually want to hear. You want listeners to nod, text a friend...
How to Write Songs About Heartache
Heartache songs are emotional land mines that also sell out small venues. They make strangers cry on public transit and make your ex wo...
How to Write Songs About Authenticity
Authenticity is the thing listeners say they want and then immediately judge you for when you try too hard. Welcome to the paradox. You...
How to Write Songs About Forests
You want a song that makes a listener smell pine without actually lighting a candle. You want lyrics that feel like a hike at midnight....
How to Write Songs About Dependence
Dependence is messy, intimate, embarrassing, and sometimes heroic. It can be a late night reach for your ex name on the phone. It can b...
How to Write Songs About Unrequited love
You are not alone in the slow burn of wanting someone who will not want you back. Unrequited love is pain, comedy, poetry, and hit song...
How to Write Songs About Fragility
You want vulnerability that sounds fierce not fragile. You want songs that make the listener feel seen instead of second hand embarrass...
How to Write Songs About Realization
You want a song that feels like someone switched the lights on in your chest. A realization is that cinematic first breath when you see...
How to Write Songs About Self-discovery
You want a song that feels like someone finally lit the tiny lamp inside your chest. Songs about self discovery find listeners who are ...
How to Write Songs About Action
You want the listener to feel like the camera is in their chest. You want kinetic verbs, percussion that hits like footsteps, melodies ...