That’s what Anne and I say to each other most nights, albeit tongue-in-cheek, while checking our download statistics. We haven’t had much time for music lately, but the last little song we recorded has sort of become a small-time Internet hit. Between this and our music site, I Cry has been downloaded over 8500 times in the 45 days since we first made it available. We aren’t earning a dime from it, but it's a blast knowing there are people out there listening to one of our songs.
There have been complete strangers putting the tune on their myspace, linking to it from their msn spaces and talking about it in forums in languages we can’t understand. Some are now reaching our sites by searching for our band name, Babydoll’s Closet, in google.uk (United Kingdom), google.cn (China, which is really neat and will translate our site if you click the Chinese link), google.de (Germany), baidu (China) and of course, google.com (US). We honestly have no idea how or why these folks discovered our song from various parts of the globe, but it’s really fun to watch; almost as much fun as the jokes we share about imaginary anonymous fame and invisible celebrity, and Anne’s comedy routines where she sings our songs with a foreign accent.
14 more downloads since I started writing this post. Someone we don’t know is probably listening right now and that's just cool. So, in celebration of the whole thing, I did a cheezy publicity shot of The Ultimate Singing Wife. She is dark. She is mysterious. She makes a killer meat loaf and mashed potatoes.
And here's one of yours truly, her guitar plucking, well-fed and deeply satisfied manstuff.
