My two-year-old has her own record label — her first hit is disco polo about carrots

My daughter (2) has her own record label: ~50 compilations, an animated series, and an app on my phone — all generated from a single text file, at ~$0.10 a song. Her first hit is disco polo about carrots.

My daughter is two, and she eats her carrots to a song that sounds like it was written at a Polish village wedding at 2 a.m. — disco polo, the country’s gloriously cheesy 1990s dance-pop. It opens like a thriller:

Hey! What’s this?! What’s about to happen?! Oh! The mush is already on the table!

The tension builds — a kitten sits down at the table, heart pounding, carrot on the plate — and asks the existential question: “Is this love? Is this magic?” The answer: “No! It’s a spoon for a kiss!” Then the chorus she knows better than her own name:

Yum yum yum! Oh my! So tasty! Yum yum yum! The kitten eats like a king!

The song is called “Yum Yum – First Mush,” and it exists nowhere except my house. We wrote it with AI in one afternoon, for an audience of one: her.

Why I’m even doing this

The kids’ songs you can buy are generic or about someone else’s life. My daughter’s world right now isn’t fences and meadows — it’s mush, carrots, the spoon-for-a-kiss, and a nap after lunch.

“Kids’ content” isn’t one market. It’s millions of one-person markets, each with its own mush.

If I can write a track about a carrot, I can write the things a two-year-old can’t yet name — “I’m angry,” “I miss grandma,” “My sister gets more,” “I did it!” — songs that name the feeling before the child finds the word.

Then came the one that mattered most: a song with her name in it. The kitten stands in a meadow and calls the field to dance, then drops into a slow bridge — “little star… Kitten Klusek loves you.” The carrot song made me laugh. This one stopped being a joke and became an animated music video she knows by heart.

🎬 [MUSIC VIDEO “HEY MANIA!” — MP4, 9:16, ~90s]

How it’s made

One idea runs through all of it: kids’ content as code. A song isn’t an audio file — it’s a YAML file describing what to produce. An agent (Claude Code) orchestrates the rest.

The source of a song is a dozen lines:

- id: 01
  title: "Yum Yum - First Mush"
  style: "Disco polo, Upbeat, Party, BPM 128, Children's song, Catchy"
  prompt: "Energetic Polish disco polo pastiche about a kitten trying food..."
  lyrics: |
    [Intro, Dramatic]
    Hey! What's this?! What's about to happen?!
    ...

There are two lanes, both starting from that file.

Lane A — compilations (audio). The cheap path: style + prompt + lyrics go to Suno V5 via the Kie.ai API, a client polls and pulls the MP3 (~$0.10 a song). Finished files go to separate storage — only the URL lands in git, not hundreds of megabytes of audio. Then ffmpeg stitches songs into one file (black screen + audio), sorted by BPM. That’s a “1-hour playlist.”

Lane B — music video (Kitten Klusek). When a song needs a picture, a video track kicks in: the same Suno step, then Whisper extracts word timestamps, the lyrics split into 15-second scenes, each scene gets a keyframe (character held by reference images), and that frame drives an image-to-video model (Sora-2). ffmpeg stitches the scenes and lays the song underneath (-shortest trims video to the song’s length).

Because the unit is a text file, I get everything I like about code:

• Versioning — every song and video lives in git; I can roll back.
• Repeatability — a whole playlist in a new genre is one changed style field. That’s why I have disco polo and twist and ska from one pipeline.
• Quality gates — before the expensive video generation, a gate checks the keyframe (does the character match?). The cheap mistake gets caught before it becomes the expensive one.
• Cheap at scale — “write my daughter 50 albums” stops being a figure of speech.

What grew out of it

It started with one disco polo about mush. Today the repo holds:

• ~50 compilations split by function of the day: morning, wind-down, go-wild, play, lullabies
• A dozen-plus genres — disco polo, rock’n’roll, twist, polka, ska, eurodance, rockabilly, surf — playlists ordered by BPM, from calm to “jumping on the couch”
• An emotions series — the songs that name feelings
• Reworked Polish folk classics and carols
• Sung fairy tales
• An animated series, “Kitten Klusek” — 100+ short image-to-video clips, same character as the songs
• An Android app — the whole library in one place to play from

So what — if you’re not writing songs for a toddler

A decade ago, a personal song about a child’s own name or her own grandma needed a label, a composer, and a budget. I did it in my pajamas, between naps, adding lines to a text file.

I don’t know if she’ll remember her dad wrote her disco polo about a carrot. I know that when she hears “Yum yum yum! The kitten eats like a king!”, she eats her broccoli without a fight. As a first review, it doesn’t get better than that.