How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Agreement
You want a song about agreement that does not sound like a pamphlet from the DMV. A song about agreement can be tender, hilarious, poli...
How to Write Songs About Ambition
You want a song that makes the listener want to stand up, quit the job they hate, and call their future self a name with respect. Songs...
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 Go
You want a song that captures the exact moment someone decides to leave. You want a line that fans text to their ex at 2 a.m. You want ...
How to Write Songs About Conflict
You want the listener to feel the room heat up and then decide whether to walk out or throw a glass. Conflict creates emotion. Conflict...
How to Write Songs About Celebration of life
You want to write a song that honors someone and makes people laugh and cry in the same chorus. A celebration of life song must hold te...
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...
How to Write Songs About Treaty
You want a song that makes people feel the weight of paper and the heat of history. You want a chorus that can be sung into a crowd or ...
How to Write Songs About Deconstruction
You want to write about falling apart without sounding like a dull seminar. You want the lyric to feel honest, not performative. You wa...
How to Write Songs About Procrastination
You keep opening a blank document and closing it to scroll social media. You have ideas, melodies, a notebook with half a chorus and a ...