How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Action
You want the listener to feel like the camera is in their chest. You want kinetic verbs, percussion that hits like footsteps, melodies ...
How to Write Songs About Themes
Theme is the secret sauce that turns a line you scribbled on a napkin into a song people feel in their bones. If you want songs that la...
How to Write Songs About Engagement
You want a song that makes someone drop the fork and stare at the person across the table. You want a line that makes a partner cry in ...
How to Write Songs About Beat
Want to write songs that land on a beat and live there like they pay rent? Whether you mean writing about the concept of the beat in a ...
How to Write Songs About Enchantment
You want your listeners to believe in small magic by the time the second chorus hits. You want a lyric that smells like midnight jasmin...
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 Modernity
You want a song that nails the weirdness of now. You want language that sounds like someone scrolling at 2 a.m. and finally saying the ...
How to Write Songs About Mindfulness
You want a song that calms without boring, that teaches without lecturing, and that still sounds like you. Mindfulness songs are not yo...
How to Write Songs About Foes
You want a song that feels like a mic drop. You want lines that sting, a melody that sinks into the cortex, and a chorus that people re...
How to Write Songs About Betrayal
You want a song that stings and holds up on repeat. You want a chorus that lands like a slap and a verse that looks like an evidence bo...