A custom song for your daughter
A song she keeps, for the rooms you will not be in.
Lyrics and music made with La Ritournelle AI
Most of what you want your daughter to know, you will only get to say a few times, and probably at the wrong moment. In a car, in an argument, at an airport gate. The rest of it lives in your head while she grows up and leaves.
A song is a way of putting it somewhere she can reach later. On a hard week at nineteen. Before her own wedding. Long after you are done being the person she calls first. That is the thing this gift does and a bracelet does not.
How to write your brief
Ideas to include
What you want her to know
The one thing you would want her to hear on her worst day. Say it flatly in the brief, and the song will carry it.
Her, not a daughter
Her actual stubbornness, her actual laugh, the thing she does that nobody else does. Specific beats sweet, every time.
The women she comes from
A grandmother's name, a family line, the traits that skipped a generation and landed on her anyway.
Perfect for
- A dad who wants to say it before she leaves home
- A mom writing to the woman her daughter is becoming
- Parents marking a birthday, a graduation, or a wedding
- A grandmother passing something down while she can
Tone ideas
- Tender and honest, with no performance
- Proud and fierce, written to be leaned on
- Nostalgic, following her from small to grown
- Light and playful, with one line that lands hard
Message example
Sophie, La Ritournelle helped me turn all of it into a song for my daughter. Keep it. Play it on the days you forget what I think of you, because it will still be true then.
Brief examples
What you want her to know
Name: Sophie. Bond: daughter, from her dad. Occasion: No occasion. Tone: tender and honest. Anecdote: an argument at an airport gate that never got finished, to adapt with a real memory. Delivery: sent as a private link. Indicative example, exact lyrics not promised.
Her, not a daughter
Name: Ruby. Bond: daughter, age six. Occasion: Birthday. Tone: light and playful. Anecdote: negotiates bedtime like a lawyer, to adapt with a real memory. Delivery: played at breakfast. Indicative example, exact lyrics not promised.
The women she comes from
Name: Claire. Bond: granddaughter. Occasion: Eighteenth birthday. Tone: proud and fierce. Anecdote: the same temper as a great grandmother she never met, to adapt with a real memory. Delivery: given at the family dinner. Indicative example, exact lyrics not promised.
How it works
You tell us
Share her name, who she really is, and what you want her to still have in ten years.
We compose
We write the lyrics for your review, then produce a fully sung, studio quality track.
You gift it
Give it to her now, or hold it for the day you already have in mind.
Why La Ritournelle
- Written from who she actually is, not from a template about daughters
- You review and approve every line before we sing it
- Studio quality audio, ready in minutes, yours to keep as a file
- For 7,99 €, something she still has when everything else is gone
Frequently asked questions
Can I write it now and give it to her years from now?
She is little. Should I wait?
How do I keep it from being sentimental?
Can it be from her mom and dad together?
Other occasions
Go further
- Starting kindergarten songsSee the milestone version, for the morning she first walked in alone.
- Back to school songsExplore a song aimed at a nervous first morning of the year.
- Birthday songsFind the version made to play when the candles come out.
- New baby songsGo back to the beginning, with a lullaby on a newborn's name.
Ready to write their song?
Tell us the story, we handle the rest. Your song is ready in minutes.