It is hard to sit down and write a regular blog post with everything going on right now. The world feels like it is falling apart. It is hard to have enough endurance to keep up with all of it and still try to make a difference. Burnout is real. Frustration is real. Feeling completely alone is real. However, in times like this, I find it especially easy to write a song. For me, fight, frustration, helplessness, and perseverance all get poured into a song rather than festering inside. Music isn’t just a…

Songwriting can come about in many different ways. You can start with the lyrics, the melody, the instrumentals, the hook, whatever. Everyone has their own creative process and finding yours is what matters. 

My Songwriting Process 

For me, I find that inspiration hits at different and sometimes random moments. It is thus important that I write down or record the ideas the moment they hit. If I don’t, I will forget them and this will drive me crazy. I also find it helpful to not worry about perfection. When…

I’ve been writing music for as long as I can remember. I wrote my first song at the age of 7. Though my musical style and sound has evolved since then, it has always been a blend of moody mainstream with a twinge of experimental. When I was younger, however, I didn’t showcase the experimental side as much as I was a little hesitant about putting myself out there like that and not being accepted. Now though, as music becomes more and more generic and I don’t have the doubts and self-consciousness I did as a…

For me, writing song lyrics comes about in different ways. Sometimes, I aim to write a song and other times I try to accomplish something else and end up writing a song. Often, lyrics come out of trying to cope or process something uncomfortable. Gray Days came out of a combination of emotionally taxing situations that left me feeling unrightly judged and unfairly treated. 

At a younger point in my life, the kinds of situations that inspired the lyrics of Gray Days may have left me weak, exposed, and…