EPISODE · Mar 17, 2026 · 12 MIN
Lyric Writing Techniques To Reach Peak Levity
from Love Music More (with Scoobert Doobert) · host Scoobert Doobert
You're in the studio. One verse just isn't quite landing. What do you do? Grab a pen and paper, and dip into these strategies.Evocative writing and internal vs. external perspectives can unlock a world of difference and a new level of speed. Doesn't matter the genre or the story. Just dial up or down.For 30% off your first year with DistroKid to share your music with the world click DistroKid.com/vip/lovemusicmore 🌎Watch guest episodes on YouTube 📺Want to hear my music? For all things links visit ScoobertDoobert.pizza 🍕Subscribe to this pod's blog on Substack to receive deeper dives on the regular 🏊♂️Pick up my new LP "I" on vinyl in its full spinning colorfulness while they last 🎨Score pod merch 🥥A word salad poem cut from episode excerpts by the podcast producer 🫛The parlance of our times. Pointing toward something universal. Weave them together. Into interesting settings and scenes. A little vignette. Find that gradient. Going for. Workflow art and science to this process. Immerse into it. Feel the weight of the words and the compression of the syllables. Find a title or a metaphor. The go further. Create raw material that you can pull from. There’s prosody. There’s a beauty. Interest, tension, and contrast. Song arcs. Highlighting what works. The feeling and free association. That moment of levity. Emotion grounded in. Decisions. Talk a bit about. Fragments. The combination switching. Mapping out. If it fits. Twists. Flips around. Draws the through-line across. Dial that fader. Like a game of telephone. 📞Podcast Produced by Beformer
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You're in the studio. One verse just isn't quite landing. What do you do? Grab a pen and paper, and dip into these strategies.Evocative writing and internal vs. external perspectives can unlock a world of difference and a new level of speed. Doesn't matter the genre or the story. Just dial up or down.For 30% off your first year with DistroKid to share your music with the world click DistroKid.com/vip/lovemusicmore 🌎Watch guest episodes on YouTube 📺Want to hear my music? For all things links visit ScoobertDoobert.pizza 🍕Subscribe to this pod's blog on Substack to receive deeper dives on the regular 🏊♂️Pick up my new LP "I" on vinyl in its full spinning colorfulness while they last 🎨Score pod merch 🥥A word salad poem cut from episode excerpts by the podcast producer 🫛The parlance of our times. Pointing toward something universal. Weave them together. Into interesting settings and scenes. A little vignette. Find that gradient. Going for. Workflow art and science to this process. Immerse into it. Feel the weight of the words and the compression of the syllables. Find a title or a metaphor. The go further. Create raw material that you can pull from. There’s prosody. There’s a beauty. Interest, tension, and contrast. Song arcs. Highlighting what works. The feeling and free association. That moment of levity. Emotion grounded in. Decisions. Talk a bit about. Fragments. The combination switching. Mapping out. If it fits. Twists. Flips around. Draws the through-line across. Dial that fader. Like a game of telephone. 📞Podcast Produced by Beformer
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