Song Name Generator

Most song titles are the hook. Pull the line the chorus lands on and you have the title, which is why so many great ones are short, singable and slightly strange out of context. The rest come from a concrete image (a porch light, a borrowed car, a dead phone), a place or time stamp (Midnight at the Dollar Store, Seventeen Summers), or a plain-spoken sentence that sounds like something someone actually said (Tell Me When It's Over, Say Less). Abstract nouns like Destiny or Eternity rarely make a real tracklist because they give the listener nothing to picture.

Genre shapes the shape. Pop and hip-hop favor one to three words that fit on a thumbnail and survive being shouted in a crowd. Country and Americana lean on place names, weather, vehicles and small-town detail. Indie and emo get away with long, wry sentences, lowercase titles and parentheticals. Rock likes a noun and a verb with some friction between them.

The titles below are written to cover all of those modes: short hooks, image phrases, full sentences and a few odd pairings. Pick one that matches the feeling of the track rather than its subject, say it out loud with your artist name in front of it, and check it isn't already a well-known song before you release.