Songforsomeone.com - Bespoke Songs For Your Loved One

Song For Someone is a Start-Up that takes template-based websites to the extreme. In this case, the templates are songs of a range of musical styles that customers can order to be customised to create a song for their Significant Other. The customer fills in a form giving details of the prospective subject of the song - name, sex, where they met, a few likes and dislikes etc. The new facts are threaded seamlessly into the song template, recorded and sent out as a CD.

Song For Someone is the new one-of-a-kind musical gift experience offering you the chance to capture your feelings towards a friend or loved one within a lovingly crafted one-off piece of music, complete with customised lyrics and personalised CD sleeve design. From the details that you provide us with via our online questionnaire, we will carefully craft a unique and natural set of lyrics, set to the music of your choosing, to create a very special personalised song containing both actual personal information as well your own closest feelings towards that special someone.

The templates and the final song are put together by Jim Littlewood, a London-based musician who has been battling these last few years to get his band Sweetheart signed. He has taken a plethora of temp jobs to fund his music-making, spending his days in low-level white collar jobs and his evenings writing or gigging. Song For Someone is his way to generate an income that allows him to make music at the same time.

At first I thought this idea couldn't scale - that it could only get so big before Jim wouldn't have time to record the vocals to complete the song, that he might have to sacrifice the time he used to put aside for Sweetheart in order to fulfill orders, which for Jim would be defeating the object. But there are hundreds of quality singers and studio engineers who would love to have a daytime gig like this which could pay them enough to be able to focus on their own stuff in the evenings, or give them a start in the industry. Some For Someone already employs a female singer should the customer's spec require a woman's voice, rather than a man's. In that sense, the site is infinitely scaleable.