How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Setting goals
You want a song that turns ambition into an earworm. You want lyrics that make a listener feel grit, hope, and that delicious panic at ...
How to Write Songs About Analysis
You want a song about analysis that does not read like a professor wrote the liner notes. You do not want a track that sounds like a bo...
How to Write Songs About Failure
Failure is the secret club every artist is in whether they admit it or not. You have flubbed a verse in front of a producer. You have w...
How to Write Songs About Recovery from illness
You want to tell the truth without sounding like a medical pamphlet. You want a song that holds the ache and the weird small victories....
How to Write Songs About Balance
You want a song that nails the feeling of walking a tightrope while texting your ex. Balance is the emotional and sonic sweet spot wher...
How to Write Songs About Presentation
You want a song that makes stage fright feel like a character in the story. You want lines that an audience can mouth when the mic is h...
How to Write Songs About Allegory
You want a song that hits like a metaphor and lands like a revelation. You want listeners to smile when they finally get the twist yet ...
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 Tone
You want your song to feel like a mood in human form. You want a listener to hear the first chord and know whether they should cry, dan...
How to Write Songs About Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition is the songwriting tool that makes a listener stop scrolling and tilt their head. You put two things that do not belong t...