How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Innocence
You want a song that feels like a childhood memory and punches like an honest adult confession. Songs about innocence are a tricky spec...
How to Write Songs About Opponents
You want to write a song that calls someone out without sounding petty or boring. Maybe you have a rival who keeps stealing your spotli...
How to Write Songs About Human rights
You want a song that wakes people up and does not sound like a PTA lecture. Good. Human rights songs work best when they are brave, cle...
How to Write Songs About Procrastination
You keep opening a blank document and closing it to scroll social media. You have ideas, melodies, a notebook with half a chorus and a ...
How to Write Songs About Sound
You want to write a song where the voice is not only singing about love or loss but is also pointing a spotlight at the noise, the whis...
How to Write Songs About Comparison
Comparison eats joy and makes great songs. If you have ever scrolled, scrolled again, and felt your chest go tight because your friend ...
How to Write Songs About Symbols
Symbols are the cheat codes of songwriting. A single image can carry a whole mood, a backstory, and a culture sized crater of meaning. ...
How to Write Songs About Performance
You want a song that makes someone feel like they are standing in your shoes on stage. Whether that is sweaty palms in a dive bar, the ...
How to Write Songs About Music
You want to write a song about music that does not sound like a tribute band singing a Hallmark card. You want lyrics that are clever w...
How to Write Songs About Pact
Pact songs live in the beautiful place where vows meet drama. Whether you are writing about a teenage blood oath, a whispered promise b...