How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Growth
Growth songs are not motivational posters with melodies. Growth songs are honest travelogues from one version of you to another version...
How to Write Songs About Assembly
You want a song about putting things together that actually feels like life and not like an instruction manual read by a robot. Whether...
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 Focus
You want a song that feels like a laser beam and still has a personality. Songs about focus are tricky. Focus is invisible and messy. I...
How to Write Songs About Ambition
You want a song that makes the listener want to stand up, quit the job they hate, and call their future self a name with respect. Songs...
How to Write Songs About Lecture
Lecture songs are a goldmine. Whether you mean the snooze fest in Room 204 or the classic relationship scolding, lectures give you conf...
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 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 Love
You want a love song that does something other than smell like clichés from a greeting card. You want lyrics that land, a hook that get...
How to Write Songs About Deconstruction
You want to write about falling apart without sounding like a dull seminar. You want the lyric to feel honest, not performative. You wa...