How to Make a Custom Song with Someone's Name in It — for a Birthday, an Anniversary or Just Because

“Happy Birthday to You” is everyone's song, which is exactly the problem. A song about how Sophie grows tomatoes on your tiny balcony, or how you two met in the rain at a festival, belongs to one person — and that's the one people replay and forward to the family group chat.

The custom song tool on ImageGPT does the songwriting for you. You answer a few questions, AI writes lyrics with the name in the chorus, and a music model sings them in the genre you pick. Here's a real song made with the tool:

What you get

• The name in the chorus: the AI opens or closes chorus lines with it and works it into each verse, so it's easy to sing along.
• Occasions: birthday, anniversary, wedding, New Year, graduation, Valentine's Day or just because.
• Who it's for — mom, dad, wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, kids, grandparents, a friend, a coworker, your boss or a teacher — so the tone fits.
• Nine genres: pop, rock, rap, acoustic, dance, jazz, kids, ballad and country. A male or female voice.
• About 90 seconds: two verses, the chorus twice and an outro, in English or 17 other languages.
• Lyrics you can edit, or your own pasted in, up to 1,500 characters.
• An optional square cover with the song title, ready to send along with the track.

What to write

The form has room for 400 characters of facts, jokes and wishes. Spend them on details nobody else would know, not on adjectives like “kind and caring”.

• What they love: a hobby, a team, a dish, the dog, the garden.
• Shared stories: how you met, a road trip, the time everything went wrong.
• Catchphrases and inside jokes.
• Who it's from: “from James”, “from the whole team”.

Step by step

1. Open Custom song with a name in the Music section.
2. Enter the name, pick the occasion and, under For, who they are to you.
3. Fill in Facts, jokes and wishes.
4. Choose the genre, the voice and the song language.
5. Click Write the lyrics — it takes up to half a minute. The lyrics come with section tags: [Verse 1], [Chorus], [Verse 2], [Chorus], [Outro].
6. Read them through, fix any line you'd say differently, edit the title, or click Write again.
7. Pick the music model, keep or switch off Cover with the name, and click Create song. Recording takes about a minute and a half; the song and lyrics are saved in your history.

Using your own lyrics

Already wrote a poem or a toast? Paste it into Lyrics instead of the AI version. Two four-line verses, a chorus and a short outro sound best. Use the same section tags the AI uses:

Form examples

These go into Facts, jokes and wishes. Match the genre to the mood: a friendly roast works as rap, a love story as acoustic or a ballad, a party song as dance or country.

Which model, and what it costs

Without the cover, a MiniMax Music 2.6 song is 18 credits. The AI lyrics are free, and you're only charged for a finished song: if the recording fails, nothing is taken.

FAQ

Can I change the genre without rewriting the lyrics?

Yes. Pick another genre and click Create song again; the lyrics stay in the field. Each recording is charged separately.

Can the song be in Spanish or another language?

Yes. Choose it under Song language and the lyrics are written and sung in it. There are 18 languages to pick from.

How is this different from the regular music generator?

In the music generator you write the style and the lyrics yourself. Here you only describe the person; the tool writes the lyrics with the name, sets the style from the genre and makes the cover.