For your best friend
You have the stories nobody else has, including a few you will absolutely leave out.
A birthday song for your best friend, from the person who knows everything
You have the stories nobody else has, including a few you will leave out. Pick three that are safe to sing and we make a two-minute song that puts your best friend’s name in the chorus.
Hear the second a name lands
Dante, you're my brother and my guide,
You wrote“Best friends since second grade, when he traded me his pudding cup.”
The song singsYou traded me your pudding cup and built a bond to last.
From a real song made here: “A Bond Built to Last”, for Dante, from what his best friend typed.
The moment you give it
You stand up like you're going to give a toast and press play instead. The verses are the three stories that are safe to sing, and the look they give you says they know which ones you left out.
A SONG FROM THE ONE WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING · A SONG FROM THE ONE WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ·
Birthday dinner, the private room · Long table, everyone watching the birthday face
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
A real song for a best friend
Xiomara’s best friend wrote about night school and 2 am voice notes; birthday or not, the shape is the same.
What you get for $12.99
You hear it first, free. You pay once, only if you keep it.
- Free preview
- The first 60 seconds, ready in about two minutes after you enter your email. No card.
- The song
- The full song, about two minutes long, as an MP3 to download and keep.
- Lyrics
- Every line is on the preview page before you pay. Unlocking adds the lyric sheet, to print or save as a PDF.
- Their link
- A private link that plays the whole song without an account, with your name and a short note. Switch it off any time.
- Photo video
- Free: a vertical 9:16 photo video of your photos with the lyrics on screen, plus 15- and 30-second cuts. Made in your browser.
- The name
- Unusual name? Type how to say it (SEER-sha for Saoirse) and the singer says it that way.
- Re-record
- One free re-record per song: change a line, the style or the voice and record it again.
- Name sung wrong?
- After you pay, a free remake with the name fixed, once per song.
- Languages
- Sung in English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese.
- Teaser
- Before you pay, a 15-second teaser link that tells them a song is on its way.
- For this song
- Posting it? The 15-second cut fits an Instagram story and the 30-second cut a Reel, with the lyrics already on screen.
- Want a nudge next year? Opt in and we email you three weeks and one week before the date.
Friendship details that sing well
- How you met, and how unlikely it was that you stayed friends.
- The thing you always do together, however busy you get.
- Their worst haircut, kindly described.
- The time they showed up when it mattered.
- A message they send you that nobody else would understand.
- Where you both thought you would be by now, and where you actually are.
Keep the room in mind
If the song will play at a party, leave out anything their parents should not hear. A safe rule: if you would tell it in a toast, it can go in the song.
Styles friends pick
Upbeat pop is the party choice. R&B / soul suits the friend who is the reason the night ever got started, and it is the style of the Xiomara sample. Indie folk works for the friend you have known since school and still call every Sunday.
If you are far apart
- Send it at the start of their day, in their time zone.
- Ask someone at their party to play it for you.
- Film yourself hearing it for the first time and send that too.
More song ideas
Questions
Every story you can safely sing.
Choose three and hear the first minute of their song.