How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Desire
You want your listener to feel a heat that makes them move, call, cry, and maybe text an ex at 2 a.m. Desire is the engine of countless...
How to Write Songs About Oppression
You want to make a song that matters. You want lyrics that hit like a gut punch and melodies that turn grief into something people can ...
How to Write Songs About Conformity
You want a song that calls out the herd without sounding preachy. You want listeners to feel seen, to laugh, to grimace, and to sing th...
How to Write Songs About Platonic love
Your best friend deserves a bop. So does your ride or die roommate. So does the person who taught you how to tune a bass and how to eat...
How to Write Songs About Irony
You want to write a song that makes people laugh, wince, then replay it to figure out if you were serious or just very, very clever. Ir...
How to Write Songs About Cooperation
You want a song that celebrates teamwork without sounding like a corporate training video. You want lyrics that feel human and messy. Y...
How to Write Songs About Pause
You want your song to make silence feel like a character. You want the listener to notice the space between notes as much as the notes ...
How to Write Songs About Weakness
Weakness is not a bug. It is a songwriting superpower. Songs that name the soft spots, the cracked mirrors, the texts sent at 2 a.m. an...
How to Write Songs About Free will
You want a song that wrestles with destiny and makes people feel seen on the subway. You want philosophy that does not sound like a lec...
How to Write Songs About Closeness
You want a song that feels like being folded into someone's jacket on a rainy night. You want the listener to think the singer knows th...