Custom songs by occasion
A personalised song for no reason at all
No birthday, no anniversary, nothing in the diary. Which is exactly why it lands. From $21.99.
Gifts with a date attached are partly obligation. Everybody knows the birthday was coming, so part of the present is just evidence that you remembered a number. The nice thing gets absorbed into the admin of the occasion.
Send someone a song about their own life on a Tuesday in February and none of that applies. There is nothing to explain it except that you thought about them for ten minutes and then paid for something. That is why people tend to react harder to these than to the ones we write for weddings.
What to put in a no-occasion brief
With no event to hang it on, the song has to be about the person as they are right now. Present tense, close up.
What they are dealing with this month
The job they hate, the new baby who does not sleep, the course they are halfway through and want to quit. Current beats historic here.
A thing you have never actually said
That you copied them. That they held the family together in 2019. Most of these songs exist because saying it out loud was not going to happen.
One ordinary detail from your week together
The voice note they send at 7am. The blue tin on the windowsill. The chair nobody else is allowed to sit in.
Why now
Even if the honest answer is no reason. Tell us that and the song can say it, which is the whole point of the thing.
Which genre tends to work
Acoustic folk
Sounds like it was written at a kitchen table, which suits a gift with no ceremony.
Hip hop
For a friend who would find anything sincere unbearable unless it also has jokes in it.
Pop
Bright and easy to replay. Best when you want it stuck in their head for a fortnight.
Reggae
Loose and good-humoured. A song for someone who needs cheering up rather than moving.
Who these usually go to
Long friendships, mostly. The person you have known since school and now speak to four times a year, where a birthday text feels thin and a phone call feels like an event that needs scheduling.
Then the harder ones: a parent you are not good at talking to, a sibling after a falling out, a partner in a flat stretch of a long relationship. A song can carry a sentence you cannot say to someone's face, and it arrives without demanding an immediate answer, which is often what makes it possible at all.
Why the lack of an occasion is the point
An anniversary song proves you know the date. A random Tuesday song proves you were thinking about them when nothing prompted it, and that is a much rarer thing to be handed.
It also removes the comparison. Nobody weighs it against what they got last year or what someone else gave them, because there is no year and no someone else. It just turns up, uses their name, mentions the chair nobody is allowed to sit in, and that is that.
There is no deadline, which is the difficult bit
Nothing forces this one, so it tends to sit on a mental list for months. If someone came to mind while you were reading the paragraph above, that is the whole signal. The form takes about ten minutes and the money is $21.99.
Speed still matters when you want it to arrive while the reason is live. If a friend had a bad week, Express delivery gets the song to them within the hour, Priority within four, and Standard within sixteen. A song about a rough Monday is better on Monday night than the following Sunday.
Questions
Do I need an occasion to order?
No. Pick Just because in the form and answer the questions about the person as normal. The lyric is written to stand on its own without a date attached to it.
Will it seem strange to send one out of nowhere?
It surprises people, which is different. Adding a line about why you sent it takes care of any awkwardness, and no reason is a perfectly good line to send.
Can I write one for myself?
People do, usually after finishing something nobody else witnessed. Brief it in the first person and choose the voice you want singing it.
What do I actually receive?
An original song of two to three minutes with verses, a chorus, a full arrangement and studio-quality vocals, on its own page with the lyric sheet and a permanent download. No subscription, no watermark, no expiry.
Ready when you are
About ten minutes of questions. A finished song in as little as an hour, from $21.99, yours to keep forever.
Start their song