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Songwriters on Process

Songwriters on Process

Auteur(s): Ben Opipari
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In-depth interviews with songwriters about their songwriting process. Nothing else. No talk of band drama, band names, or tour stories. Treating songwriters as writers, plain and simple. By Ben Opipari, English Lit Ph.D.

© 2025 Songwriters on Process
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  • Billie Marten
    Oct 23 2025

    "I get a physical tingling sensation. It's beyond my control, an impulsive feeling where I have to sit and wait for it," Billie Marten says about that moment before a wave of inspiration strikes. The problem, Marten told me, is that it's been a while since she's written anything.

    But as we soon realized, Marten has been writing a lot: she pulled out her Notes app and scrolled through all the freewriting and thoughts she's written over the past year. "Look at this," she says. "I haven't written anything, but I've written something every day." Good writers know that pen to paper is only a small part of the writing process. And as you'll hear, when Marten writes songs, she loves to write diagonally.

    Billie Marten's latest album is called Dog Eared.

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    54 min
  • William Prince
    Oct 15 2025

    "I allow myself to miss the guitar. And the guitar comes calling when I start to feel bored," says William Prince. A multiple JUNO award-winner, Prince is also a member of Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, Canada, writing often about his experience as a member. Prince also finds long drives to be productive--and those long drives in Canada are common. "So many voice memos happen with my windows cracked an inch on those long drives from Calgary to Vancouver or Winnipeg to Calgary. I’m always trying to recreate the language then."

    William Prince's latest album is Further From the Country

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    41 min
  • Jay Som
    Oct 6 2025

    "It's important to separate my sense of self-worth from my creations. If I was so self-aware of my output, I don't think I'd be having fun," Melina Duterte, who goes by the performing name Jay Som, told me. She says that output is proportional to her introspection: "How much I express through music depends on how much work I've been doing on myself," she says. And there's no better place for Duterte's introspection than at her kitchen sink, doing the dishes.

    Jay Som's latest album is Belong on Polyvinyl Records.

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    41 min
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