How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Solitude
You want a song that makes listeners feel seen while they are alone, stuck on their couch, or pretending they are fine. Songs about sol...
How to Write Songs About Teaching
You want a song that teaches without lecturing. You want lines that stick like chalk on denim and a chorus that students hum on the bus...
How to Write Songs About Unrequited love
You are not alone in the slow burn of wanting someone who will not want you back. Unrequited love is pain, comedy, poetry, and hit song...
How to Write Songs About Loneliness
You want a song that does more than say lonely. You want a song that puts the listener in the room where the loneliness happened. You w...
How to Write Songs About Turmoil
You want your chaos to feel true and not like a melodramatic audition tape for a soap opera. Songs about turmoil are magnetic when they...
How to Write Songs About Intelligence
You want to write a song about brains without sounding like your high school psych textbook read by a robot. Good. You also want it to ...
How to Write Songs About Disconnection
You want a song that makes someone put their phone down in a subway and stare out the window for a minute. You want a lyric that names ...
How to Write Songs About War
You want a song about war that lands like a punch and holds like a hug. You want listeners to feel the dust, the fear, the weird quiet ...
How to Write Songs About Literature
You love a book so much you want to make it sing. You are not alone. Writers fall in love with characters, phrases, images, and moments...
How to Write Songs About Meter
Meter is the invisible traffic cop of rhythm. It tells beats where to stand, when to march, and when to moonwalk. You can write songs t...