How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Cynicism
You want to write about being fed up without sounding like a broken record or a walking meme. Cynicism in music can be a deliciously sh...
How to Write Songs About Determination
You want a song that makes people sit up, square their shoulders, and feel like finishing something they started. A determination song ...
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 Creation
You want to write a song that feels like the first breath. You want lyrics and music that conjure beginnings, births, origin myths, gar...
How to Write Songs About Endurance
You want a song that feels like a slow burn and then hits like a fist full of sunlight. Songs about endurance are not about winning tro...
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 Turmoil
You want your chaos to feel true and not like a melodramatic audition tape for a soap opera. Songs about turmoil are magnetic when they...
How to Write Songs About Seasons changing
Seasons are the world texting you back with color and attitude. One minute you are in sweaty neon summer and the next you are arguing w...
How to Write Songs About Escapism
You want listeners to step out of their apartment and into another life for three minutes. You want them to smell a foreign city, feel ...
How to Write Songs About Chorus
You want the chorus to hit like a mic drop. Whether you mean the chorus as the emotional center of the song or you want to write a song...