How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Motion
You want motion, not just a pretty song about motion. You want listeners to feel feet tapping, windows rolling down, stomachs dropping ...
How to Write Songs About Awareness
You want your song to make people wake up, feel something, and still bop along in the car. Songs about awareness are tricky. If you get...
How to Write Songs About Inclusion
You want to write a song that invites everyone to sit at the table without sounding like a corporate poster. You want lyrics that land ...
How to Write Songs About Play
You want a song that feels like a playground in your ears. You want to make listeners grin, bounce, or suddenly remember the thrill of ...
How to Write Songs About Inequality
You want your song to land like a truth bomb and not like a lecture from your uncle at Thanksgiving. Songs about inequality can move pe...
How to Write Songs About Heroes
You want a hero song that does more than say thank you. You want a song that makes listeners feel the scrape of boots, the smell of smo...
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 Honesty
You want your song to feel like a truth bomb wrapped in a melody people actually want to hear. You want listeners to nod, text a friend...
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 Pattern
Patterns are the boring stuff that secretly runs our lives. Commuting routes. Bad habits. The way your friend always texts at 2 a.m. Pa...