Custom songs by occasion
A custom song for a new baby, mostly for the parents
A first name in a chorus, recorded properly, kept forever. From $24.99, ready in as little as an hour.
New babies are given a great deal of stuff and almost none of it is for the parents. The fifth muslin set, another sleepsuit in the size they have just outgrown. Meanwhile two people are sitting on a sofa at 4am wondering what happened to their life, and nobody has said anything to them about it.
A song is one of the few gifts that goes to them. It uses the baby's name, how the pregnancy actually went, who drove to the hospital and how badly. We write the lyrics from your answers and record them with a full arrangement and studio-quality vocals, so it plays like a real song rather than a nursery rhyme.
What to put in a new baby brief
Skip the weight and the length, they are on the card already. What makes this land is the specific chaos of the weeks around the birth.
The name and how it was chosen
The grandmother it came from, the shortlist that lasted eight months, the fact that they only agreed in the car park. Names carry more story than anything else you can give us.
How the news arrived
The test on a Tuesday morning, the phone call that woke someone up, the way one of them cried and still denies it.
Something small and daily already
The hand that will not let go of a finger. The one blanket that works. The song that stops the crying at 3am. Newborn life is made entirely of these.
Who the song is from
A grandparent, a friend, an aunt, or a parent writing to the child to be played back in fifteen years. This decides the whole voice of the lyric.
Which genre tends to work
Piano ballad
Quiet and slow enough to play in a room with a sleeping baby in it.
Acoustic folk
Plain and warm, and it ages well when the child hears it back at eighteen.
Afrobeats
For families where a birth is celebrated loudly and the whole house is coming round.
R&B
Smooth and adult. Good when the song is really a love letter between the two parents.
A song from a parent, for later
The other common version is a parent writing to the child, not about them. Everything they are thinking in the first month and cannot say to a newborn, put into a lyric with a date on it and kept.
Those songs sit unused for years and then get played at an eighteenth, a graduation or a wedding, at which point they do a great deal of damage in a good way. The recording does not expire and the download is permanent, so it will still be there.
Adoption, second children and hard roads
Not every arrival is straightforward. We write these for adoptions, for babies who came after years of trying, for the ones who spent their first fortnight in a neonatal unit with a parent sleeping in a chair. Tell us the real version and the song holds it without being grim about it.
Second and third children are worth a song too, and the brief is different: less about the shock and more about the house rearranging itself around another person. Say which number this one is and we write it accordingly.
When to order
There is no rush on this one. Most people order in the first few weeks, once the name is settled and the family have stopped visiting in shifts. Standard delivery is 16 hours and costs the least, which is the sensible pick when nothing is urgent.
The exceptions are the hospital visit and the naming day or christening, where you want it on your phone before you arrive. Priority is 4 hours and Express is 1 hour, and the form takes about ten minutes to fill in.
Questions
Is the song for the baby or for the parents?
Usually the parents, because they are the ones who can hear it. Plenty are written from a parent to the child instead, to be played back years later. You tell us which in the form and the lyric is written from that point of view.
Can we use the baby's name in the lyrics?
Yes, and it is the single best thing you can give us. First name, middle name, and the nickname the family already uses instead of it.
Is this appropriate as a baby shower gift?
It works, though the name is usually still undecided. Many people wait until after the birth so the name can go in the chorus, then send it as the first proper gift the parents get.
How long does the song last and where is it stored?
Two to three minutes, delivered on its own page with a lyric sheet plus a download you keep. No subscription, no watermark and no expiry date on it.
Ready when you are
About ten minutes of questions. A finished song in as little as an hour, from $24.99, yours to keep forever.
Start their song