How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About First love
First love is messy, intoxicating, naive, and unforgettable. It is the first time a heart takes a bruise and calls it meaning. It smell...
How to Write Songs About Reality
You want a song that feels true enough to bruise. You want listeners to nod like they just recognized themselves in a stranger. Writing...
How to Write Songs About Legacy
Legacy feels big and heavy until you start writing lines and it becomes personal and messy and human. You do not need to reinvent etern...
How to Write Songs About Form
You want a song that is about form and uses form as the point. You want structure to be the theme instead of something boring that sits...
How to Write Songs About Stars
So you want to write a song about stars. Good choice. Stars are emotionally generous. They give you wonder, yearning, loneliness, hope,...
How to Write Songs About Setting
You want a place that feels like a character. You want listeners to smell the coffee, taste the summer air, and remember the streetligh...
How to Write Songs About Oceans
You want a song that smells like salt and makes strangers feel suddenly small and deeply dramatic in the best way. You want waves in th...
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 Realism
You want your song to feel true enough to bruise. You want listeners to point at the lyrics and say that is literally me or that is som...
How to Write Songs About Verse
Yes you read that title and laughed a little. You might be thinking write songs about verses which sounds like a meta art project or yo...