r/Songwriting

My girlfriend really loves music, like more than anything and I want to write her a song. It is my first song and I need some tips. Anything is appreciated

i am try to write a song for my girlfriend for her birthday. now don’t get me wrong the song is 100 percent going to sound terrible but i would still like the lyrics to be good. the issue is I CANT WRITE MUSIC. i mean i had a little rapping phase in 5th grade but lets js say theirs a reason i wiped it off the internet. i am terrible at turning my thoughts into words. me and her love midwest emo and post hardcore music so i think it would be a silly gift to give her a cd with me covering a whole bunch of out favorite songs and it sounding terrible but i would like to sneak it a song in their that actually means something. i mean i think i have a decent voice according to me driving alone at night. but IM GETTING OFF TRACK!!! if there are any song writers out their that are willing to help my cause that at familiar to midwest emo please dm me.!!!!

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Yesterday AFP published a report that's been picked up globally. Four fully AI-generated country artists are among the most-streamed in the US. None of them wrote a single lyric by hand.

What's alarming for songwriters: a Berklee professor said the prompts used to generate AI country songs were "not particularly detailed." The genre's predictability did most of the work.

Country songwriter Nicole Jordan put it bluntly: "The lyrics aren't as deep as they used to be. A big portion of popular country music has become kind of shallow, so that is pretty easy to duplicate."

Breaking Rust hit #1 on Billboard Country Digital Song Sales. It took roughly 2,500 downloads. The project has 2.4M monthly Spotify listeners and is not registered with BMI or ASCAP.

The silver lining: there's a new wave of country artists going back to the "old school way" of showing real emotion. Jordan says that will be harder for AI to duplicate.

Full story: https://www.votemyai.com/blog/ai-country-music-takeover.html

I've been struggling a lot lately with my mental health and I can't get my feelings out. Usually what I'll do is learn a song on guitar that explains how I'm feeling, but there is no song that I've been able to find that explains me at this point in time.

How do I put my feelings into lyrics? I'm not great with words and when I write my feelings down, it's very literal.

I produce music as a hobby and on piano or digitally it is easy for me to try new chords and experiment. But I feel stuck on guitar. If I stick to a scale I have 7 chords, but they feel the same and basic. Then even if I add a 7nth or something it just seems basic

I didn’t for a long time until now .

Made this instrumental track and was looking to see if anyone would be interested in adding lyrics/vocals. Any feedback is welcome of course!

Im new to recording songs but I’m just curious how much it matters.

So i really wanna make music.. i really enjoy psychedelic rap (think travis scott) and would love to create similar songs (i really enjoy the rage and trippy beats aspect of it, especially in drugs you should try it and Maria im drunk).. Problem is my voice.. I have a very soft feminine sounding voice and I CANNOT rap for shit.. my voice is just too soft.. Think lana del rey if she had no vocal training... I really do enjoy her music as well and wouldnt mind making something similar (lyrically and musically, especially with her more ethereal sounding songs, such as west coast) but i just loveeee the psychedelic rap aspect of music... I feel like if i can somehow find a way to merge both these styles aesthetically, It could really work but i really dont know how that would work out... sorry for the rambling, any advice is appreciated!!

"Tell me a story that takes me away, not forever but just for a day a few moments in time to live, that aren't mine"

Thanks for your time.

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