# Song subjects ideas? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-subjects-ideas/147145 "2003-01-07T14:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fallus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5e925/32.png) [@Fallus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fallus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-subjects-ideas/147145/1 "2003-01-07T14:44:31Z")
Hi, I need to come up with quite song songs in a very short amount of time. I make hip hop music. My main problem right now is I can’t come up with enough original subjects to write lyrics about. Does anyone have some good ideas? I need to write about 15 songs in 4 weeks, so any help is greatly appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-subjects-ideas/147145/2 "2003-01-07T16:05:43Z")
Fifteen songs in a month? That’s easy for an ex-punker! Not that these are all good, but:[ul][li]National politics.[/li][li]Why you broke up with your last boyfriend/girlfriend.[/li][li]Cover or redo an old song. [/li][li]Write about whatever you wrote in your diary/journal yesterday.[/li][li]Pick the silliest sounding psychological term and use it in a story.[/li][li]If you’re still in school, write a song about the lunchroom menu, critique each entree one by one.[/li][li]Gossip about your friends, tell everything.[/li][li]Why Brawny paper towels are the real picker-upper.[/li][li]Why movie _a_ sucks and movie _b_ is so much better.[/li][li]Why drugs suck (alt: why the’re cool or why they just cost too much.)[/li][li]If you have roommates, who stole my food out of the fridge?[/li][li]Cover or redo another old song. [/li][li]Clubs want too much to get in.[/li]Why you hate writing fifteen songs in four weeks.[/ul]That, or just read the personal ads in rhythm to the music. ---
**Author:** ![Fallus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5e925/32.png) [@Fallus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fallus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-subjects-ideas/147145/3 "2003-01-07T16:24:40Z")
While I do appreciate your input, this is not quite what I am looking for 🙂 I write rap lyrics, and most of the subjects you gave me are not very suitable. The first one is, but I don’t know too much about politics. The second subject is alright too, but I was already working on something similar. Covers are not what I want, I don’t have a journal, I’m not in school, don’t have interesting gossip, … But thanks a lot for the effor! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-subjects-ideas/147145/4 "2003-01-07T18:19:40Z")
How about a vague concept album? Come up with a theme or story and then write a song about each aspect of it. It’s tough to come up with the idea, but gets easier when you have a rough outline to write your lyrics from. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-subjects-ideas/147145/5 "2003-01-07T20:18:25Z")
Eh, I didn’t expect to bat 100% anyway. 🙂 What are your other songs about, and what’s audience? I may not be any help, but someone else might if they knew who you were rapping to. ---
**Author:** ![Fallus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b5e925/32.png) [@Fallus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fallus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-subjects-ideas/147145/6 "2003-01-08T06:11:50Z")
It’s not for an album but for a gig. My other songs? Most of them are old and are the regular boasting and dissing seen way too often in hiphop… It’s not me, and I want to write more intelligent material, but I’m running out of time. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-subjects-ideas/147145/7 "2003-01-08T12:18:11Z")
Are you interested in De La Soul’s more quirky abstract raps? Check out the lyrics to \*Tread Water/i] for inspiration.