Popular songs, stories, and poems pretty much center around three things: love, loss and nature. These topics then get broken down into many different subtopics and subgenres. Good writers utilize these in a way that distinguish their work from all the others, but still is familiar enough with the audience to generate popularity and success. Nowadays it can be argued that popular music is centered around the elements of sex, dance, and partying with a few outliers. Many artists struggle to stay with the times while trying to hold on to their creative flare. As writers, we are the keys to success; for without the song itself, there is no music. Sometimes we just need to get out of our own heads and just write and see what happens. There is nothing wrong with writing about sex and dance. But some of us may want a little more of a challenge.
Below are 50 Songwriting Ideas that we artists could possibly use as inspiration to write. Whether they are just to get the creative juices flowing or may actually turn into a hit, these ideas are intended to assist the everyday writer with potential writer's block or boredom. Give some of these prompts a try and you never know what could come out of it.
Write a song about...
1. A childhood crush
2. An imaginary sport
3. Your heritage
4. A date gone wrong
5. A dream deferred
6. An event on a family vacation
7. Transitioning into adulthood
8. A piece of advice to someone that doesn't want it
9. Something that you weren’t allowed to do when you were young
10. You as a character in your favorite book
Write a song with the title as...
11. An acronym
12. A hypothetical question
13. A misspelled word
14. A dysfunctional relative
15. The same title as your favorite book
16. The city where you were born
17. An uncommon pet name for an ex or current boyfriend/girlfriend
18. An article of clothing
19. A local restaurant
20. A foreign dish
Write a song with music that...
21. Combines two unlikely musical genres
22. Is a poem set to music
23. Has bagpipes in it
24. Uses full orchestration
25. Sounds dissonant (unpleasant sounding)
26. Goes back and forth major to minor
27. Goes back and forth from English to a foreign language
28. That you could work out to
29. With a hook that would get stuck in your head instantaneously
30. That could be a theme song to a kid's show
Write a song that is...
31. A mash-up of two different songs
32. A parody of a serious song
33. For an artist you can't stand
34. A popular song in the style of a different genre
35. A response song to whatever is #1 on the charts
36. A song for a viral YouTube video
37. A replacement song for a music video
38. The opposite gender version of a song
39. Changed lyrics to your favorite song
40. Based off of a politician's speech
Write a song inspired by or dedicated to...
41. High school principal
42. Bus driver
43. A musician you dislike strongly
44. The richest person in the world
45. A bully
46. Waiter/waitress
47. A poster of a famous person
48. A movie star from the 1950s
49. Someone who holds a world record
50. Someone who does a good deed that no one notices
I hope some of these ideas work to your advantage and sparks something inside you to keep doing what you do. Keep the music alive. Keep writing. Stay focused. Be inspired. Be you.
~L~
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