How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
How to Write Songs About Soliloquy
Want to write songs that feel like someone talking to themselves onstage in slow motion. You want intimate confessions that still hit l...
How to Write Songs About Authenticity
Authenticity is the thing listeners say they want and then immediately judge you for when you try too hard. Welcome to the paradox. You...
How to Write Songs About Recounting
So you want to write a song that tells a story. Not a vague mood piece. Not a lyric that sounds like an Instagram caption. You want to ...
How to Write Songs About Communication
Communication is the drama engine of modern life. Text threads end relationships. Voicemails keep secrets. A read receipt can feel like...
How to Write Songs About Movement
You want motion that the listener can feel in their chest and in their shoes. Whether movement is literal travel, a dance floor stomp, ...
How to Write Songs About Weakness
Weakness is not a bug. It is a songwriting superpower. Songs that name the soft spots, the cracked mirrors, the texts sent at 2 a.m. an...
How to Write Songs About Approach
Approach is the emotional moment before action. It is the breath before the kiss, the wobble before the stage lights, the thumb hoverin...
How to Write Songs About Explanation
You are trying to explain yourself in a song. Maybe you want to say sorry without sounding weak. Maybe you want to justify a bad choice...
How to Write Songs About Recovery from addiction
You want the song to matter and to not blow it. You want lyrics that are honest without being exploitative. You want a chorus that hold...
How to Write Songs About Struggle
You want the room to feel less alone when your song ends. You want somebody in the crowd to mouth your line like a lifeline. Songs abou...