{"id":18841,"date":"2022-02-07T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/?p=18841"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:53:49","slug":"how-to-choose-a-song-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/how-to-choose-a-song-title\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Choose a Song Title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-learn-how-great-songwriters-find-titles-that-spark-ideas-and-shape-memorable-lyrics\">Learn How Great Songwriters Find Titles That Spark Ideas and Shape Memorable Lyrics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"excerpt-callout-block_6568a7ca94be183105c65caabc708798\" class=\"excerpt-callout style-default\">\n    <div class=\"excerpt-content\">\n        <p><em>The following information on how to choose a song title is excerpted from the Berklee Online course <a href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/courses\/lyric-writing-writing-from-the-title?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Lyric Writing: Writing From the Title<\/a>, written by <a href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/instructors\/pat-pattison?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;tum_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pat Pattison<\/a>, and currently enrolling.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a songwriter, finding a song title is the big question, and the hard one, because a title is only as good as your imagination\u2014your ability to do something interesting with it. You could take a DNA title like \u201cTangled Up in Blue\u201d and take it nowhere. You could take a parasitic title like \u201cAll of Me\u201d and move the audience to laughter or tears. In general, however, effective titles seem to have some of the following characteristics. They:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Distill and embody the central idea of the song.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Define a foundation that all the sections of the lyric move toward and develop from.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are able to be developed over a series of sections, maintaining interest and focus as the song evolves.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are engaging and interesting, either in themselves or in the ideas they are able to provoke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-make-a-song-title-interesting\"><strong>How to Make a Song Title Interesting<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Song titles often have features that make them interesting. Any listing of these features is doomed to be incomplete and arbitrary, arrived at inductively by looking at lots of titles. The list is as varied as your imagination. I could say, for example, that titles sometimes contain colors, and point to \u201cBlue Monday,\u201d \u201cThe Purple People Eater,\u201d and \u201cTie a Yellow Ribbon.\u201d Does that mean you should get out the big box of crayons and start browsing? Maybe. But it\u2019s still a crap shoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-get-specific\">Get Specific<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes these titles effective could be that they provoke a sense response. They are specific rather than general.&nbsp;Does that mean that \u201cThe End of the Innocence\u201d isn\u2019t a good song title? Hardly. But looking at categories like \u201cone-word titles,\u201d or \u201cnames of states,\u201d or \u201cpeople\u2019s names\u201d can be stimulating. So can seeing a good movie or eavesdropping on a conversation in a bar. An introduction and the subsequent \u201cHow do you do\u201d might stimulate \u201cHow do you do what you do to me?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-transform-cliches\"><strong>Transform Clich\u00e9s<\/strong><br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps your friend says they can\u2019t stand the ups and downs in their relationship, and you think \u201cThey\u2019re on a real roller-coaster ride. Well, they bought the ticket to ride when they proposed.\u201d So now you see that sometimes titles can suggest or contain metaphor or simile. (\u201cWind Beneath My Wings,\u201d \u201cTrain in the Distance,\u201d \u201cYour Body is a Wonderland,\u201d \u201cHard Candy Christmas,\u201d \u201cCleaning Out My Closet\u201d)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should you now tune your title-sniffer to the land of comparative language, browsing through <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eudora_Welty\" target=\"_blank\">Eudora Welty\u2019s<\/a> short stories for the gold mine of similes contained therein? Absolutely. Should you take note when the businessperson at the bar raises their glass to the server and says &#8220;Nurse?&#8221; Maybe. Anything to stimulate your own creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-use-a-clever-twist-on-words\">Use a Clever Twist on Words<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Then you get the email containing the 25 worst country music titles and read \u201cShe Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.\u201d It\u2019s like watching a car crash. You don\u2019t really want to look, but you can\u2019t look away. Should you start looking for titles containing a clever twist on words, like \u201cDon\u2019t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, the answer is yes.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should I now start looking in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlebrown.com\/titles\/john-bartlett\/bartletts-familiar-quotations\/9780316375313\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bartlett\u2019s Familiar Quotations (opens in a new tab)\">Bartlett\u2019s Familiar Quotations<\/a><\/em>? Couldn\u2019t hurt.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-components-of-good-titles\"><strong>Components of Good Titles<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>And how about those wonderful titles that sound so nifty? You notice that they contain some sonic relationships, or sonic bonding, either with vowels (assonance) or consonants (alliteration), or both. (\u201cAin\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019,\u201d \u201cBewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered,\u201d \u201cBlue Moon,\u201d \u201cFeeling I\u2019m Falling,\u201d \u201cThe Right Time of the Night,\u201d \u201cHelp Yourself.\u201d)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should you start listening, using your rhyming dictionary, or perhaps a dictionary of alliteration? Great ideas!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Opposites (wrong, right; sun, moon; dark, light; in, out; up, down, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Repetition (\u201cTurn, Turn, Turn,\u201d \u201cOn and On\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Repetition with Variation (\u201cAlready Ready\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Double meanings (\u201cMean to Me,\u201d \u201cNight Moves,\u201d \u201cJust about Now\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-where-titles-can-be-found\"><strong>Where Titles Can Be Found<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many places to stimulate your imagination. If you pay attention, you can often find effective titles in places like these:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Billboard signs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Product slogans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Book and movie titles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interesting things people say<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Songs, especially lines you misunderstand<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thesaurus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dictionaries of phrases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rhyming dictionary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dictionary of alliteration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But remember, no matter where you find your title, or how good it is, you are still responsible for developing it effectively and imaginatively. \u201cWho, what, when, where, why, and how\u201d are among the most effective focusing devices. But make sure that you explore a plethora of possibilities. Don\u2019t jump at the first development idea that presents itself. That\u2019s the one that would come to most everybody first, and that most people would write. Songwriter <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Burr\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Burr<\/a> always goes, \u201cFour or five angles down the road, to the one most people wouldn\u2019t get to.\u201d That\u2019s the one he writes. You should too, only stopping when you find an interesting and natural angle to work from.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you commit to the concept of seeing the song title as the centerpiece of the song\u2014as the concept from which everything else will flow, you will be on your way to more efficient and effective songwriting. The entire process will open up, and your creativity and imagination will have a launching pad it can rely on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/songwriting?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">STUDY SONGWRITING AT BERKLEE ONLINE<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a songwriter, finding a song title is the big question, and the hard one, because a title is only as good as your imagination\u2014your ability to do something interesting with it. 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