How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Seasons
Seasons are songwriting cheat codes. They give you instant mood, visual detail, and emotional shape. Use them like a dramatic scaffoldi...
How to Write Songs About Blueprint
You want a song that uses blueprints as more than a prop. You want the word to live in the chorus and breathe in the verse. You want th...
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 Longing
Longing is the music of wanting that never gets boring. It is the ache in your chest when you think about a late night text that never ...
How to Write Songs About Wisdom
You want a song that sounds wise without sounding like a fortune cookie or a lecture from your aunt who owns an enlightenment mug colle...
How to Write Songs About Heritage
You want a song about your roots or someone else’s roots that actually matters. You want to avoid sounding like a college paper or a to...
How to Write Songs About Space
You want a song that makes someone feel weightless on the first listen. Maybe you want to flex with a Bowie style epic. Maybe you want ...
How to Write Songs About Memories
Memories are emotional landmines and treasure chests at the same time. You can step on one and blow up in a puddle of tears. You can op...
How to Write Songs About Lies
Lies are delicious for songwriters. They come with built in drama, moral friction, and a built in reason for a chorus to explode. Lies ...
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...