The Science of Songwriting
Published on 22. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
979-8-1981-7662-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Strange Engineering of Feeling A song is one of the most suspicious inventions humans ever created. It is not food, shelter, transportation, medicine, plumbing, or a reliable financial strategy, and yet people will build entire identities around three minutes and forty-two seconds of organized vibration. A song can make a teenager feel immortal, make a retired man cry in a grocery store, make an entire stadium yell the same chorus as if civilization has briefly agreed on something, and make one person text another person at 1:13 in the morning, which is why songwriting should probably be regulated by several agencies and at least one emotionally stable aunt.