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Power nouns are essential to create interesting names of persons, places and things in your lyrics. This songwriting secret is simple. The more power nouns you can include the better. Use them to be specific in your songwriting.

Here are two examples. Which of each pair is more interesting?

• The man walked down the road.
• Charlie walked down Heartbreak Ave.

• The girl twirled her hair and ate desert
• Bonnie twirled her golden hair and ate strawberry ice cream

Be ruthless in your song, name everything. Pack it with names of everything you can think of. Basically if it’s worth mentioning in your song, it’s worth finding a way to name it.

You will sometimes catch yourself saying “oh it won’t fit” or “people will understand” etc. That may be true, people may understand, but that’s not the point. Getting your listener hooked emotionally is how to write songs that will stand out.

Power nouns are your best friend, doing everything you can to get them into your songwriting game. Over doing it is possible; however you will be surprised at how many power nouns you can fit into your song. You still need an interesting story and all the rest of proper songwriting technique.

Try this, use a person’s name in the title of you next five songs. That means the name should likely also be in the hook line of your chorus. Just that alone will make your songs more interesting. Again look at the great songs out there and see how many use names in the titles.

Using as many power nouns as possible is how to write songs that people will remember.

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