A Christmas song that is actually about you.

• Classic crooner — brushed drums, upright bass, strings, a warm male or female vocal; say “1950s big-band Christmas, sleigh bells, warm”.
• Christmas pop — bright, bells on the off-beat, a big singalong chorus; “upbeat Christmas pop, sleigh bells, key change in the last chorus”.
• Kids — simple words, a bouncy tempo, a chorus a five-year-old can shout; name the children.
• Acoustic and quiet — guitar, piano, a hum; for the card, the long drive home, the year that was hard.

Octa writes original songs, not copies of existing carols, so the tune will be new even when the sleigh bells are familiar.

Sleigh bells in the prompt, your people in the verses.

• classic crooner Christmas song for the Okafor family, warm male vocal, sleigh bells, the dog Biscuit who steals the tinsel, grandma’s jollof, everyone home on the 24th
• upbeat Christmas pop song for our office Northwind Design, mixed vocals, the thermostat war, the 4 p.m. cookie run, a big singalong chorus with the company name
• kids Christmas song for Ella and Max, bouncy, female vocal, counting sleeps, the reindeer carrots, simple chorus they can shout
• quiet acoustic Christmas song, soft female vocal, first Christmas in the new flat, snow on the balcony, missing mum, hopeful
• Christmas thank-you song from a small bakery to its customers, cheerful swing, male vocal, mentions the sourdough queue and the cinnamon rolls, warm and short
• New Year song for our friend group, disco, mixed vocals, the group chat, the trip we keep planning, countdown in the last chorus

Every song has a share link with cover art — paste it into the family chat or print it as a QR code inside the card. In the Android app you can render the song as a short video with the lyrics on screen for Instagram or the office Slack, and download the MP3 to play at the dinner. Make it in early December: the songs that get played all month are the ones that arrive before the 20th.

The same method works for Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, Diwali (in November), a New Year countdown or a plain “end of the year” song for a team. Name the holiday, the traditions you actually keep and the people; the engine writes to that, not to a generic template.

Paste your words with [Verse] and [Chorus] tags and Octa sings them exactly. Holiday lyrics live on lists — the foods, the names, the small rituals — so one verse per list works well, with a chorus that repeats the family or company name. Keep lines under ten syllables. See the lyrics guide.