How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Discussion
Talking is messy, emotional, and hilarious. A fight over the last slice of pizza, a late night text chain that spirals into confessions...
How to Write Songs About Destiny
Destiny sounds big. It smells like cinematic lighting and smells like smoke machines and it also looks like your ex on the subway at 2 ...
How to Write Songs About Union
You want a song that makes people feel joined up. Maybe you mean two lovers finally synced like wireless earbuds. Maybe you mean a neig...
How to Write Songs About Pessimism
Want to write a song that smells like rain on old promises? Good. Pessimism is rich territory. It is not the same as misery theater. Pe...
How to Write Songs About Decisions
Decisions are drama you can sing about with a straight face and a bad cup of coffee. Whether a character chooses to pick up the phone o...
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 Alienation
You want songs that make people feel understood without sounding like an internet pity party. Alienation is one of those emotions that ...
How to Write Songs About Dreams vs. Reality
You want a song that makes listeners wake up and say wait did I just dream that or was that real. Songs about dreams and the space betw...
How to Write Songs About Success
So you made it or you think you will make it. Either way you want a song that sounds like a trophy but also feels like something your b...
How to Write Songs About Composition
You want to write a song about songwriting without sounding like a pretentious music professor. Or maybe you want to be gloriously pett...