Tell us about someone you love and Express Song writes them an original song: lyrics, melody, vocals, ready in minutes. Not a template. Theirs alone.
✓ Free preview · ✓ Ready in ~3 min · ✓ Full song $29.99
Inside jokes, names, places. All in there.
From the first prompt to a finished song, the whole thing takes about ten minutes, most of which is you deciding what to say.
A short guided flow asks about who they are, what you're celebrating, and the moments that make them them.
We weave your details into verses, a chorus, and a bridge. You can edit every line until it feels right.
Get the opening clip from the exact full song we'll deliver. No payment until you love what you hear.
Pay $29.99 once. Unlock the complete MP3 behind your preview, yours to keep forever.
Each one written from a short story the gifter shared. Click a card to hear the preview.
For Grandma Ruth, on her 85th birthday.
For Grandpa Earl's 80th birthday. 40 years of fishing trips.
For Sam, first in her family to graduate college.
"We played it at our reception and there wasn't a dry eye in the room. Our whole love story in three minutes."
"My grandpa cried when we put it on. He kept asking, 'how did they know about the fishing trips?'"
"Our first dance. It was us: the airport meet-cute, the cat we adopted. Best money we spent on the wedding."
"I sent it to my mom on Mother's Day and she called me crying. Then played it for the whole family."
The guided story takes about 3–5 minutes. Lyrics draft in under a minute. The free preview takes a bit longer because we create the full song first, then let you hear the opening clip before checkout. After payment, the complete song is unlocked right away.
Yes. Every Express Song song is composed from scratch from your story prompt. We never reuse lyrics or melodies, and the vocalists are not imitations of any real artist. The song is yours, with a personal-use license. Share it, post it, play it at the event.
Absolutely — and we encourage it. After we draft the lyrics, you'll see a full editor where you can change every line, the title, and the production direction. Your preview is clipped from the full song generated from those approved lyrics.
You don't pay until you do. The preview is free. You can regenerate the preview, tweak the lyrics, or change the genre and vocal style, all before you ever enter a card.
You'll get an MP3 download link in the studio, and we'll email it to the delivery address you choose (yours or the recipient's). The song stays in your account so you can re-download anytime.
The standard $29.99 license is for personal use: birthdays, weddings, events, social media. If you need a commercial license (for example, for a brand video or a paid event), contact us and we'll set that up.
We're a small team that thinks the best gifts are the ones that make people cry happy tears. We built Express Song because off-the-shelf gifts felt hollow. Music technology has finally gotten good enough to make something that feels personal at scale.
All major credit and debit cards via Stripe, plus Apple Pay and Google Pay where available. Payment is one-time only. No subscriptions, ever.
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