When I started music blogging, I got too excited about the concept and started posting songs almost everyday. The prospects of reaching out to a wider world from my house in this southern tip of India and receiving welcoming comments had totally got me excited. Then came collaborations and I sang anything and everything that I felt like singing. But now when I hear the songs again, I see a lot of scope for improvement in each of them (this is not the humility that already successful people show-off, by the way; just pure realization of my mediocrity). I think my latter recordings are way better than the old ones.
So there was this one song cover I did with Anup Nandialath, a wonderful guitarist whom I first met in the online world and then in the real world. This was Hotel California cover (Yes, I hear your “How-dare-you”s 😉 ). Needless to say, apart from the beautiful guitars that Anup played, my voice and style did not do justice to the song at all. When I moved my song cover MP3s to 4shared, I kept it in there. I hadn’t really looked at the song statistics since then but today I was just checking 4shared and I saw 14,981 downloads!
I was like – whaaaaat! This song was downloaded 14,981 times?! But then I realized that the poor souls who downloaded the song did so by falling for the song name and there was no indication that it was a song cover. I made it sure by going through the comments. While there are four “Thank You”s (yeah, LOL!), one guy wrote “thank you for screwing up Eagles“. Then there was another guy who really made me delete the file from there right away. 😀 It goes like this:
WTF is singing this? :p You raped the song bro. I wanted the eagles song, i got a crow singing. Deleted, looking for the real song again, thanks for wasting my time. Do us all a favor and don’t upload the songs you sing yourself, nobody cares. you scared my dog.
I couldn’t help laughing out aloud on this. 😀 No, I did not really mean to scare him or his dog so I deleted the file instantly. Now I am going to check all the other songs and going to delete anything such as this that might have scared people away. 😀 And this also makes me realize one thing. One should know what he can do best and stick on to it (though I believe there is no harm in trying though!). 😉
And interestingly, one comment says “F*** Israel” just about 15 days ago and another person nodding “Yeah!” to that comment just 5 days ago. Do I really sound like an Israeli?!