Yes, you can get a greeting card with a song written about your friend, and their real face sings it. On Tangy Limes you pick a card, tell it what the song is about, edit the words until they're right, and their mouth moves to every one of them.
The custom song is $9.99. The card is $1.99 on top, once, no subscription. That's the whole math.
How a custom song card works
Every card already comes with an original song, so you don't need this. You need this when the regular birthday song is fine but you know something better. Like the fact that he once drove to the wrong airport. Twice.
Here's the order of things:
- Pick a card and upload a photo. Their face gets cut out and put on a dancer. Nothing gets redrawn by AI, so it's their actual face, eyebrows and all.
- Say what the song is about. A sentence works: "she quit her job to sell candles and it's going great." Or write your own lyrics if you've been sitting on a verse.
- The song gets written to fit that card's dance, so the words land on the moves instead of fighting them.
- Read it. Change anything. Every word is editable before you pay, which matters, because you will want to fix his ex's name.
- Pay the $9.99, the song gets sung, and their face sings it back at you.
Then the card is about 40 seconds: an intro with the names, four dance scenes, and your friend lip-syncing a song about their own worst decision.
Two cards that take a custom song well
90s Birthday Bash. Two faces in full neon workout-video mode: hip hop, aerobics, a bodybuilder and a sumo dance. Leg warmers come standard. A song about the time she signed up for a marathon and then did not run a marathon sits nicely over an aerobics routine. Cast her as the bodybuilder. Cast yourself as the sumo wrestler, as an act of solidarity.
Shred Your Birthday. Two faces on a huge arena rock stage with pyro flames and a wall of amplifiers, in spandex pants and studded belts, then backstage with a cake covered in sparklers, then out the sunroof of a white stretch limo at night. This is the card for a power ballad about your brother's fantasy football team. Rock songs can carry a lot of complaining. That's most of the genre.
Both take two faces, so you can put yourself in it, which I recommend, because then it's a tribute and not an attack. Mostly.
What to put in the song
Specific beats nice. "You're a great friend" is a song nobody replays. "You ate my leftover pad thai and lied about it for a year" is a song that gets sent to six other people.
Some starters:
- The thing they're famous for in the group chat
- A trip that went wrong, with the city named
- Their weird job, explained badly
- The nickname they pretend to hate
- Their dog, who is the real star, honestly
Keep the details true and small. One story per song is plenty. If you have three stories, that's three birthdays.
You can also rewrite the headline. HAPPY BIRTHDAY can become WRONG AIRPORT, KEVIN, and now the whole card is a theme.
Sending it
Make a share link and drop it in the chat. It opens a plain web page that plays the video, so they install nothing and sign in to nothing. You can also email it to up to five people from the card page, or download the MP4 and text it.
The preview with their face is free, so try the card first and decide on the song after. Keeping the card costs $1.99, one time, nothing renewing. The custom song is its own $9.99 purchase, and you only buy it if you've got something to say.