How to Write Songs About Specific Emotions
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 Childhood
Want to turn that crooked backyard swing, your grandma's cereal bowl, or the mixtape you made on a boombox into a song that actually la...
How to Write Songs About Perseverance
You want a song that makes people stand up in the kitchen, wipe cereal off their face, and keep going even though life just delivered a...
How to Write Songs About Fortitude
You want a song that feels like a friend who will not quit on you. You want lines that make listeners stand a little taller. You want m...
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 Reflection
You want a song that feels like someone opened a diary and left the light on. Songs about reflection invite listeners into a private ro...
How to Write Songs About Endings
You want an ending that lands like someone finally saying the thing everyone already knew. You want lyrics that make your listener nod,...
How to Write Songs About Cynicism
You want to write about being fed up without sounding like a broken record or a walking meme. Cynicism in music can be a deliciously sh...
How to Write Songs About Knowledge
You want a song that makes people think and feel at the same time. You want listeners to hum the chorus and later tell a friend about t...
How to Write Songs About Breaking
You want a song that lands the first time a listener nods along in their car and says yes that feels true. Breaking is not one feeling....