Garageband.com update.

So far my little review experiment is backfiring slightly, due to the fact that most of the reviews are so good. And contrary to how it might sometimes appear in the analyzing, I do actually appreciate all of them. But I thought I might get some really nasty/entertaining ones like I've had in the past. It could still happen. If it doesn't, I'll pull out a real doozie I got for 'Renaissance Man' a while ago. Haha.

For those of you that don't know, garageband.com have charts that are compiled from how songs are rated by reviewers and how reviews are rated. I wouldn't take these charts seriously in any way but the idea is that if your song gets into the top 3 in it's genre, the garageband people come out of the woodwork and offer you recording/publishing/licensing deals etc.

The irony is that in three days 'One Of These Days' has jumped from 380 to 59 and gets highlighted on the homepage for 24 hours next Monday. That is valuable because it exposes the product to thousands of people that otherwise may not have heard about it. Hopefully some of them would like it enough to go buy something at Itunes. That alone is a good enough reason to put a song up on there. It's a good marketing extra that garageband.com provides if reviewers think you're good enough. Nothing to sneeze at.

But they also give out these virtual award things. 'OOTD' was just given 'Best Lyrics in Alternative Pop for the week of February 18th'. They give recipients little html badges to put on their websites. I've never been able to bring myself to go that far. It looks like such a game to me and has little substance. We might joke about the mainstream now, but honestly, appearing in a Billboard chart or something like that would be something to put on the news page. But garageband.com is not. If someone offered me some kind of interesting deal, that would be news. But until then, it's a sandpit.

The ultimate irony would be if the song gets so many good reviews it does get in the top 3. Then my little game of poking fun at bad reviews would be a complete failure. Ha. Time will tell.