I got this song called “The Girl From The Song” which I wrote as a kinda sorta a song about a song about a girl a couple years back.
It had a moment of popularity, but then fizzled out. Popular by my standards, not by a pro musicians. It was getting about 500-ish plays a day. It then dropped down eventually to around 30 to 40 a day. I’m talking across all platforms here.
The last couple months it’s slowly been getting plays again in the hundred plus zone.
I find it interesting, because I don’t really promote any of my music stuff. It’s just a hobby, and I am not very good at it in my mind.
Spotify hates me. I have never done well on there, and I don’t care much anyways. Spotify pays an average of like $3. to $5. per 1,000 streams. That’s only on songs you get 1000 streams or more with on a song in a twelve month period. I got a big 1400-ish plays of this song on there this last year. If a song hits 1,400 total streams, but the timing is off on how they set their year, you only get paid for the 400 streams that come after crossing the threshold, which amounts to a big $1.28 for the song, and lucky to get it. I don’t accumulate monthly listeners there either. Like I said, they hate me. Point being, I’d rather you listen to it on YouTube HERE, than Spotify, because it adds up. That’s not my YouTube btw, it’s some auto generated thing. Nobody uses it, but it’s free for all, and you need no subscriptions. Anyways, check this…
Same song in 2026 – iTunes Songs $46.28, Apple Music $14.42, Pandora $0.38, YouTube (Ads) $12.41, YouTube (Red) $10.14, Amazon Prime (Streaming) $1.04, Amazon Unlimited (Streaming) $2.12, iHeart Radio $0.01, TikTok $0.05, Musixmatch $0.01, LyricFind $0.21, Facebook $0.38, Luna $0.66, Snap $0.09, Facebook (Social Media Pack) $0.03. There is also another $14.04 total from some other services which weren’t included in the report I grabbed that list from.
That’s what I made from The Girl From The Song in 2026. I know, it sounds pathetic if you are a real musician, but for me, I just figure it is like a bonus for something I do as a hobby.
So, if you got Spotify, I’m not saying don’t play the song. Here it is on Spotify. Play it. Listen to it. Send it to your friends. All the stuff… maybe someday they will not hate me. For the record, I know it’s all automated, and nothing personal, but it’s funner to just say they hate me.
Why this post?
It’s because I was told if you make little vid things called canvases for Spotify their algorithms will like it. Yup, most people do it with releases, and I’m coming in two years late on this one. I’ve only ever made one once for a song, and it was not to promote. This is… and the big fancy is just waving hair.
It is all fancy computer techno done from my cover, from my original art… yep, that gif started on a piece of paper, and moved to a scanner, and then to photoshop, and then to publishers, and then back to me, and then photoshop again, and then to an ai robot brain, and then (cropped) and as a new format to Spotify. All that, and, it’s just the visual part of it all. Add the music creation process, and I think I made around one tenth of a penny per hour all together for this project. Worry not, I won’t quit my day job. (That’s art btw) I am only really good at visual art. Almost savant good. Any style, almost any technique… I can do it. Some of it came natural, some was via education and apprenticeships, but mostly it’s from spending large portions of my day each day making art for half a century.
If you wanna see the final product that was used, here is the Spotify song link again.
No animators are worried I am coming for their jobs.
Here is the cover art.
Note the birds. Here, but gone in the other oner. Way to hard for me. Couldn’t do it. Well, I coulda, but it’d have taken me a good hour to make them have wings that move correctly. Truly I suck at such things. Drawing is my gig. If you are into it, you can find a timelapse of how I make my covers for tunes on my regular YouTube Channel. Start to finish, from pigma pen sketch to finished product.
Enough on all that, done griping. All this was supposed to be On The Girl From The Song, and to say that even though the biggest music streaming platform out there hates me, I made a canvas thing for The Girl From The Song.
I have been asked “what song?” by people via social media a few times. For me, and many others, it is very obvious. The song is old though, and a lot of younger people haven’t heard it. I’ll say, that if you listen to it, my song here will make a ton more sense, and also may have a different vibe for you as a listener, if you didn’t know the song. I’m giving that as a warning. One person said it changed their whole view of it, and it had been a top fave song. It didn’t ruin it, just changed it.
I was going to go into my personal inspiration story here, but instead I’m just gonna tell you my favorite bits of history regarding the song. Not my song, THE Song. Long ago a talented composer and a skilled poet were chillin’ at a Bar by the beach. They were captivated by a local girl who regularly walked past the bar on her way to the beach… She was “tall and tan and young and lovely”. The poet wrote lyrics and the composer wrote a lovely bossa nova melody. It was not in English. Some time later, in another place, a skilled lyricist wrote English lyrics from it. When they wanted to record it, they found just one who spoke fluent English was present. It was the wife of the lyricist. They asked her to sing the English verses. She wasn’t a singer. She was just the only English speaker. She’d never been a singer. Her untrained, breezy, and casual voice became an accidental global sensation that changed how many look at the entire music genre, and eventually inspired other singers. How awesome is that?
My song is in part a tribute of sorts to the original song, the genius writing, the amazing sound of the non singing singer, and of the original girl from the song. The original girl from the song was a muse without a voice. Her presence alone inspired great art, and that muse has achieved a form of secular immortality. Years have past, but she doesn’t just exist as an aging woman; she exists as an eternal, unchanging, ethereal concept.
For my part, you could say the song (my song) is both about the girl from the song, and a contemporary girl which exists within my own life. Both play muse with different, yet like roles, decades apart.
So, go listen to the masterpiece song which feels like a warm afternoon on a beach, hiding some sadness behind a beautiful, smiling melody , then go listen to my much less involved, simpler, gritty, and very different vibing song if you want to hear it all as a strange story of the mind.
Better yet, skip it and go check out some of my visual art at AARRONLAIDIG.COM