How to write a Sticky Sweet Sad Song against the System

Claire Lefevre

Choose your content:

-Pick a pastel colour (mint, baby blue, soft pink…)

-Pick a cute animal (kittens, bunnies, koalas…)

-Pick an emotion (jealousy, anger, nostalgia)

-Pick a political cause or a system you want to burn to the ground (heteropatriarchal white supremacy, ableism, specism, global warming…)

For example:

A lavender bunny is stressed by capitalism

 

Turn that into a 4 lines chorus:

The more it rhymes the better. Cheat with this website.

For example:

My little bunny is lavender

But it is slowly losing its fur

My anxiously shaking lavender bunny

Worries about renting, investments and money

 

Now write your verses

Give the back story, add some details, make it more tragic, use cuteness to touch your audience´s hearts and urge them to fight the system. Feel free to namedrop political leaders and relate to the current news. To find synonyms and expand vocabulary around your topic (especially your original content, I recommend using this https://www.thesaurus.com/ )

For example:

My rabbit works from 8 to 5

it feels burnt out with no sex drive

My bunny struggles to make ends meet

Its fluff fades away from violet

 

Find a melody

Have fun. Be cute. Fuck the system.

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