How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Chorus
You want the chorus to hit like a mic drop. Whether you mean the chorus as the emotional center of the song or you want to write a song...
How to Write Songs About Consequences
You want a song that slaps and makes people feel the fallout. Songs about consequences live in that delicious pain that follows choices...
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 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 Presence
Make your listener feel like they are in the room with you. Songs about presence are not essays about mindfulness. They are invitations...
How to Write Songs About Deception
Deception makes for great drama and even better hooks. Lies, half truths, self tricking, and performance that hides an ache are the fue...
How to Write Songs About Skirmish
Want to write a song that smells like adrenaline, bruises, and cheap coffee after a fight? Good. Skirmish songs can be cinematic and in...
How to Write Songs About Rivers
Rivers are dramatic by default. They carry history, secrets, lovers, trash, and hope. They are weather with a bank. Rivers can be a cha...
How to Write Songs About Separation
You want a song that feels like it was sneaking out of your diary at 2 a.m. You want lines that sting and lines that make listeners lau...
How to Write Songs About Self-love
You want a song that makes people feel seen by themselves. You want lines that sting and then soothe. You want melodies that can be hum...