From Car Rides to Songs: How Beautiful Chaos Family Started Making Music
Updated: Oct 13
If you’ve followed Adrianne Drives Smarter for a while, you’ll know I spend a lot of my working life talking about cars, finance, insurance and helping Kiwis make smarter decisions about their vehicles.
But outside work, life is considerably less sensible. 😂
There are kids, dogs, road trips, ridiculous conversations, kitchen dancing, terrible jokes and those completely random family moments that somehow become the stories you remember.
And recently, some of those stories have started becoming songs.
Welcome to Beautiful Chaos Family.
How did this even happen?
There wasn’t really a grand plan to start making music.
It began with the same thing many of our best memories begin with: us being ridiculous.
We realised there were conversations and moments in our family that were simply too funny, meaningful or completely unhinged to disappear into the family archives.
So we started turning them into songs.
With the help of AI-assisted music and creative tools, we've been able to take our own ideas, lyrics, stories and experiences and turn them into something we can actually listen to.
Some are funny.
Some are emotional.
Some are written by the kids.
And some probably require a little explanation. 😂
🍋 When a lemon becomes a song
Possibly the best example is Lemon Hole.
What started as a completely ridiculous real-life conversation while walking home somehow escalated into us deciding it needed to become a song.
And then we actually made it.
What began as an inside joke is now Lemon Hole by Beautiful Chaos Family, officially released to spotify 👇
That still feels slightly ridiculous to write.
But that's also exactly why I love it.
It's a little snapshot of our life that would otherwise have been forgotten — turned into something we'll probably be laughing about for years.
Lemon Hole — the ridiculous real-life conversation that somehow became an original Beautiful Chaos Family song. Out on streaming platforms 2 October 2026. 🍋
🎧 Then the kids got involved — and the music became something much more personal ❤️
One of my favourite things about this whole experiment has been watching the kids realise that they have stories worth telling too.
And for my ten-year-old daughter Eva, music has become something particularly special.
Eva hasn't had the easiest start to life. She arrived seven weeks premature, and what followed was a journey no parent could ever really prepare for.
Heart problems, major surgery, time in hospital, and moments when we genuinely didn't know what the future would look like.
She's faced more medical challenges in her ten years than many people experience in a lifetime.
And through it all, she's continued to surprise us with her strength, personality, humour and determination.
But her journey hasn't been without ongoing challenges.
Eva lives with epilepsy, and seizures have been a frightening reality for our family. There's the fear, the uncertainty, the disrupted sleep, the medications, and the emotional toll that doesn't always disappear when a seizure ends.
It's something that's difficult to explain unless you've lived it.
🎵 Can You Hear Me Now
Eva's song Can You Hear Me Now comes from that world.
It's about her experience with seizures, the emotions surrounding them, and the importance of being heard and understood.
Because behind every medical diagnosis is a child with thoughts, feelings, fears, hopes and a voice of their own.
Watching Eva turn something so personal into music has been incredibly moving.
And then there's another song that's even closer to my heart.
And then there's another song that's even closer to my heart.
❤️ THEY SAID SHE WOULDN'T — Coming Soon
From seven weeks premature to open-heart surgery and a childhood of medical challenges, this is our story of fear, hope, determination and a little girl who continues to defy the odds.
❤️ Some songs are simply about our life
Then there's Do Life With Me.
That one is about us.
Road trips. Kids. Dogs. Kitchen dancing. Adventures. Stupid jokes. Surprise moments. The everyday chaos that doesn't necessarily look important while you're living it — but ultimately becomes your life.
We've also managed to turn workplace lunch habits into Chicken & Potatoes — The Intervention, along with several other stories that probably never needed songs written about them.
Naturally, we wrote songs about them anyway.
That's becoming the Beautiful Chaos Family rule:
If it's funny enough, meaningful enough or weird enough, there's probably a song in it.
🚗 What does any of this have to do with driving smarter?
Probably more than I initially realised.
Cars aren't only about getting from A to B.
They're where we have conversations.
They're where kids tell you things when you're not looking directly at them.
They're where we play music far too loudly, sing badly, laugh, argue about playlists and head off on adventures.
Some of our favourite family memories have happened on road trips or while simply driving somewhere together.
And music has always been part of that.
That's why sharing this side of our lives here doesn't actually feel as disconnected from Adrianne Drives Smarter as I initially thought it might.
Cars are part of life — and life is about much more than the car.
🎵 Welcome to our Beautiful Chaos
Beautiful Chaos Family isn't about pretending we're professional musicians.
It's about creating things together.
We're taking real stories, family jokes, experiences and ideas and seeing what happens when we turn them into music and videos.
Some will be funny.
Some will be heartfelt.
Some will come from the kids.
Some may be completely unhinged.
And that's probably a fairly accurate representation of our family.
If you'd like to follow along, you can find Beautiful Chaos Family on YouTube and keep an eye out for our songs as they begin appearing on streaming platforms.
And if you ever hear Lemon Hole playing through someone's car stereo after 2 October...
Well.
Now you know the story.
Real cars. Real life. Ridiculous moments. And apparently, now, songs too.
— Adrianne
Upcoming release "Fizzing Out My Bung Hole".
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