A Custom Birthday Song for Your Best Friend

It is her birthday in nine days and the group chat has landed on brunch again. You already know the thing that would actually mean something, and it is not brunch. It is the joke that takes four sentences to explain to anyone else. It is the nickname nobody in her family has ever used. It is the year you two agreed to stop bringing up, which you still bring up.

That is what a best friend song is made of. None of it has to make sense to strangers, because the song is not for strangers. Write it down the way you would say it out loud. She names every car she has ever owned. She answers the phone by continuing your last text instead of saying hello. She still has the receipt from that diner in her wallet. A lyric can carry a detail like that without a footnote, and the explanation stays between the two of you.

You also get to set the dial. There is the roast version, with one honest line held back for the end, built for a loud table and people talking over each other. There is the straight sincere version, closer to something for one person and a car stereo. Tell us which, or ask for the roast that turns sincere in the final verse.

If the worry is that a roast goes too far, say so in the notes and name the two subjects that are off limits. The ex, the job she walked out of, whatever it is. We write around them. A joke half the room cannot follow is fine. A joke she has to explain to her mother is not.

Here is what you get: one original studio-quality song about her, written from what you send. $19.99, in your email within 24 hours.

Open the order form and start with the nickname.