Custom songs by occasion
A custom love song for Valentine's Day, about your actual relationship
Written from your story, not a rhyming dictionary. Two to three minutes, studio-quality vocals, from $21.99.
Valentine's Day has a sincerity problem. Everything on offer was designed by a committee: the same roses at four times the price, a card that says love in a font, a set menu you are being rushed through by half past eight. None of it says anything about the two of you specifically, and both of you know it.
A song is the cheap trick that is not a trick. Ten minutes answering questions about how you met, what you argue about, the flat with the terrible shower, and you get back an original record with a real chorus. It costs less than the flowers and it is still there next February.
What to put in a Valentine's brief
Love songs fail when they could apply to anyone. Everything below is chosen to make yours impossible to transfer to another couple.
The unglamorous beginning
The dating app opener you are both ashamed of. The party you nearly did not go to. The colleague who would not stop mentioning them. Real starts beat romantic ones in a lyric.
The thing you argue about on repeat
The thermostat. Loading the dishwasher like a man being deliberately provocative. Put it in. It is funny, it is true, and it proves the song was written about you and not bought.
What you call each other in private
The name nobody else has ever heard you use. It is going in the chorus and it will do more work than any line we write.
An ordinary Tuesday you remember
Not the holiday. The takeaway on the floor because the sofa had not arrived, the walk you do the same way every Sunday. Small scenes are what make a listener believe the rest.
Which genre tends to work
R&B
Smooth and unmistakably romantic, with the kind of vocal that makes a private line sound like a proper record.
Piano ballad
Direct and slow. Choose it when you want the words heard clearly and nothing else competing.
Pop
Bright, with a chorus that sticks by the second listen. Good for a newer relationship that has not gone solemn yet.
Afrobeats
For a couple whose love language is a dancefloor. Warm, rhythmic and cheerful rather than earnest.
New relationship or fifteen years in
Early on, keep it light and specific. A first Valentine's song that reaches for forever sounds like pressure, so we write it around the small evidence instead: the way they text, the thing they said on the second date, what they are like at eight in the morning.
Fifteen years in, the opposite is true. The brief should carry weight, because you have earned it. The bad year, the flat you hated, the fact that they still make two cups without asking. That version of the song is the one people say they were not prepared for.
How to play it without ruining it
Do not announce it as a surprise and then stare at them. Put it on, sit down, and let the first verse do the explaining. The moment you are waiting for is when they realise the words are theirs, and that lands better without an audience of one watching for a reaction.
Afterwards, send the link. The song lives on its own page with the lyric sheet and a permanent download, so they can read the words back later, which is when most people notice the line about the argument.
When to order for Valentine's Day
Order a few days before the fourteenth. Not for production reasons, but so you can decide how you want to play it: over dinner, in the car on the way somewhere, or sent at nine in the morning so they carry it around all day.
For the annual population of people who remember on the thirteenth at eleven at night, Express delivery is one hour. Priority is 4 hours and Standard is 16 hours, so even a next-morning realisation is fine.
Questions
Is a custom love song too much for a new relationship?
Not if the brief is light. Tell us it is early days and we keep it playful and specific rather than declaring anything permanent. It reads as attentive rather than intense.
Can I get it on the day itself?
Yes. Express delivery is one hour from the moment you finish the form, and the form takes about ten minutes. Standard is 16 hours and Priority is 4 hours if you are ordering ahead.
What if they find it embarrassing?
Choose a genre with some humour in it and give us the funny details as well as the sincere ones. A song that teases them about the thermostat before it says anything tender is much easier for a private person to receive.
Can I use it for a proposal on Valentine's Day?
People do. Tell us in the brief and we can build towards the question or stop just short of it, whichever you prefer. Order a couple of days early for that one so you know exactly where in the song your moment is.
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