How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Fairy tales
You want a song that feels like a storybook shoved into a speaker. You want imagery that smells like wet leaves and stolen bread. You w...
How to Write Songs About Dreams
You want a song that feels like a sleepover in someone else mind. You want weird images, the kind that make people pause the song and r...
How to Write Songs About Judgment
You want a song that pinches the truth and then makes the listener laugh or wince or both. Songs about judgment live in that weird pock...
How to Write Songs About Predictability
Predictability is not boring unless you make it boring. A stale routine can be a goldmine for songwriting when you mine details, tensio...
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...
How to Write Songs About Work
Work is a mood. Work is a story. Work is therapy with a drum machine. If your day job gives you anger, joy, awkward romance, or a recur...
How to Write Songs About Past vs. Future
Want to write a song that slaps and actually means something? Great. You are about to explore the easiest high concept in songwriting a...
How to Write Songs About Passion
You want heat in the song. Not the fake kind that smells like candle wax and a Spotify mood playlist tag. You want a song that makes li...
How to Write Songs About Closeness
You want a song that feels like being folded into someone's jacket on a rainy night. You want the listener to think the singer knows th...
How to Write Songs About Draft
Draft</strong is a tiny word with giant moods. It can mean being called up to fight, the first rough version of a song, the beer you...