Song structure choices with Mike’s Songwriting Challenge

For our second host answer episode for our 2022 Songwriting Challenge, Mike shared his journey with the structure, arrangement, and production of his song.

Download the lyrics.

We talked about:

• Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
• Primus to Pay Tribute to Rush on 2022 North American Tour
• structural weirdness in Mike’s song
• writing a “tough love” song
• keeping a dummy lyric if it makes sense for the song