Song Title Generator

How the Song Title Generator works

Song title generator: choosing a name that fits

A song title is the hook written down, usually the phrase the chorus lands on, and titles fall into shapes that each genre repeats, which is why the Genre select changes the words and the Shape select changes the grammar. The imperative form, Tell Me Again, Hold Me Tonight, Kiss Me Slowly, Save the Lights, is the pop shape, a verb aimed at someone with an adverb that becomes the last word of the chorus, and it is the commonest title there is because a chorus is nearly always a request. The two-nouns form, Neon Heartbreak, Fire and Bones, Whiskey Sunday, Gold Chains, is the rock and hip-hop shape, a mood adjective and a concrete noun or two nouns side by side, and it names an atmosphere rather than a request. The gerund form, Dancing on the Highway, Falling in the Rain, Still Breathing, Holding On with You, is the shape that describes the song's one continuing action, and it is the shape of the slow song and the driving song. The place-and-time form, Sunday Morning Ghost, Midnight on the Rooftop, 4am in Tokyo, Saturday Night Radio, is the setting as title, a time of day or a month and a place, and country, pop and electronic music all use it, since a song is usually about one night. The negative command, Don't Wait Up, Don't Call Me Tonight, Never Leave Me Slowly, is the imperative in reverse and reads as the sad version of the same song. And the parenthesis, Midnight (Still Here), Tell Me (Reprise), Neon Fever (Slowed), is the twentieth-century pop convention that puts the chorus's second phrase, the version, or a stage direction in brackets, and a tracklist with one parenthetical title in it looks like a real record.

The words are ordinary English in the shapes songs use, so a result is a new combination rather than a real song by design, though short song titles are the most-repeated titles in any art form, hundreds of songs are called Tonight, and titles are not copyrighted, so a coincidence is normal and harmless. A song title is also read on a streaming screen and shouted at a gig, so the shapes here are one to five words, and the parentheses are short.

For the band, the Band name page in the Online section; for the record, the Album name page; for the songwriter's stage name, the Stage name page in the People section; for a poem the song might be set from, the Poem title page; for the film it plays over, the Movie title page; and for the label, the Business section.

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