The Hollywood Reporter: “WriteGirl Teams Pro Songwriters With Local Youth to Create Original Music”

The organization recently hosted a workshop pairing women who've written hits for the likes of Demi Lovato with underserved teen girls looking to find their own voice.

Boy trouble figured into several of the songs, like this one sung by Heidi Rojas (who has had a No. 1 hit in the U.K. with the girl group Little Mix): “I hope you get gum in your hair and can’t get it out/Hope you forget your pencil while taking a test, baby.” But some pieces reflected other kinds of challenges. Goffin sang an immediately haunting song called “Betraying the Carnival,” the enigmatic metaphors of which became clearer as Goffin subsequently read a note that the writer, a girl named Anna, put atop the lyric sheet: “I’m bipolar, and the song is about the struggle to separate my life from the chaos of the mood swings.”