A custom song for your daughter

A song she keeps, for the rooms you will not be in.

Lyrics you review and approve · 7,99 € · ready in minutes

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

Frequently asked questions

Can I write it now and give it to her years from now?

Yes. You get the audio file, so plenty of parents write one and hold it for a graduation, a wedding, or a specific birthday. It works the other way round too: a last minute brief tonight is ready in minutes. Nothing expires.

She is little. Should I wait?

No reason to. A song written while she is five is a snapshot of exactly who she was at five, which is something you cannot reconstruct later from memory.

How do I keep it from being sentimental?

Give us specifics rather than adjectives. Her real habits and a real memory will do more work than any amount of beautiful language, and you read the lyrics before anything is sung.

Can it be from her mom and dad together?

Yes. Tell us who is speaking, and if the two of you would say it differently, say so. The song can hold both voices.

Other occasions

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