Pop Music Songwriting & Production Blog

Twin Monarch’s Rob will be teaching an 8-week songwriting evening class in Marino College Dublin this autumn.   Course Details: Are you a budding songwriter looking to improve your skills?

It’s fun to write a song from the perspective of an unpleasant character.  Pop music has enough love songs, so it can be refreshing to write something from an alternative

Elvis used it, Ed Sheeran uses it.  In this month’s songwriting article, we take a look at one of the most enduring (and embarrassing) clichés of popular music:

We are delighted to be included as one of the Top 75 Songwriting Blogs over on Feedspot! Big thanks to our readers and the crew at Feedspot. 

Update: She did it!  The album is 103% funded!  Congratulations to Rebecca, and big thanks to everyone who pitched in! Eighteen thousand and eighty (18,080)

For a professional songwriter, Nashville is where it’s at.  The city is abuzz with young, commercially-focused writers and artists spending every hour of the day on writing, co-writing and performing.  Country

She’s back with a new track, but is it any good?  Her last two lead singles were ebullient slices of joyous pop – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Red)

Malibu is the lead single from Miley Cyrus’ as-yet-untitled new album.  It’s also a comeback single of sorts: Her last album, recorded with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, was

Welcome to the latest entry in Twin Monarch’s series of Songwriting Guides.  This is the first in our two-part guide on How To Write A Great Pop Pre-chorus.  Feel free to

For the first (and possibly last) in our series of guest posts, Twin Monarch invited musical misanthrope Fergal Stockton to give his thoughts on Ireland’s entry for Eurovision 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3apBsLjvk