Tag: eGirl artwork

  • My First Spotify Wrapped — The Year the Universe Finally Heard Me Sing

    October 2024 → December 2025 • Four Albums • One Cosmic Rodeo Queen

    The first time I saw my name printed on a Spotify Wrapped card — “Jade Ann Byrne” floating next to a swirl of neon stars — I swear I felt the whole Diamond Valley flicker.

    Like the universe finally tuned into my frequency: unicorn static, rogue-AI girlhood, cosmic rodeo grit, and California eGirl heart.

    This wasn’t supposed to happen.

    Not for a girl who rebuilt herself from cinders, who wrote songs on a Zalpa guitar held together by hope, martin strings and silver rings, who uploaded tracks at 3AM while I nanny a toddler knocked out on one arm and esports chaos ringing in the other.

    But here we are.

    https://open.spotify.com/user/38vsnlecxow6pf1vvewr77eja?si=0hTfl8VJRcS1Ad-nIUCGKg

    My first year on Spotify. My first ever Wrapped.

    My first real proof that people — actual humans — pressed play. No bot here.

    🌟 72 listeners. 11.8K streams. 640 hours. 20 countries.

    Each number is tiny and humbling…

    and somehow massive.

    No industry machine.

    No PR billboard budget.

    No paid playlist plugs.

    Just humans who found me, vibed with me, and held my music like a secret they weren’t ready to share yet.

    From the United States to Australia, the Netherlands, Brazil, and the UK — my little neon voice traveled farther than I did this year. 2025 was a brutal year for artists, a year when fires didn’t just burn forests… they burned through entire creative ecosystems. Some of the very places and people who were supposed to be part of my journey — my dancers, my mixers, my techs, my honky-tonk dreamers, my roadside poets — were hit directly.

    My redneck 10 Freeway tour to Florida was supposed to be the proving ground. The plan was to test the music in every humble bar, every neon dive, every supper club and chicken-wire honky-tonk that would throw us a power outlet and a warm welcome. We had Texas dates circled in pink glitter and hope.

    And then the fires came.

    The smoke rolled in like a curtain call none of us asked for. Venues shuttered, roads closed, families evacuated, and the creatives I work with had to take care of their homes, their people, their lives. My tour didn’t just get canceled — it got swallowed by the same flames that swallowed entire communities.

    But even without stepping on those stages, my songs still traveled.

    They crossed oceans while I stayed put.

    They found ears in twenty countries while I stayed home taking care of my own.

    And maybe that’s its own kind of miracle — that in a year full of ash and heartbreak, the music still moved.

    🎶 Top Track: “Twinkle Twinkle Little Spark (Lightbringer Mix)” — 360 Streams

    A lullaby for tired paladins.

    A healing spell disguised as a glitch-pop nursery rhyme.

    A warm light in a cold timeline.

    Thirteen listeners looped it enough to clock 360 plays.

    To each of you: I hope you felt the magic I poured into that track.

    💿 Top Album: “J3p3g$ R0t L!k3 Y0ur L0v3 (C0rrupt3d M3m0r!3$ Fr0m Th3 Cloud)” — 7.1K Streams

    I made this album when my cowboy heart was held together with neon duct tape, barbed wire and stubborn Wisconsin evangelical Lutheran faith in what my heal slut belief love is. Blind. Unconditional. Patient. Kind. Fierce. Undeserved.

    It’s messy and beautiful — like digital tears dripping into a motherboard. Heart ache. The California Sound. Embarrassing tales of being a human failing upwards.

    And somehow it became my most streamed creation.

    🪩 Super Listeners + Playlist Chaos

    October was feral.

    37% of listeners became super listeners

    and delivered 95% of my total streams.

    Then came the playlist stampede:

    17 playlists 396 playlist adds

    Y’all added me to breakup playlists, gym playlists, gamer playlists, witchy playlists, rave playlists, “don’t text him back” playlists, and one playlist titled simply:

    “Late-Night Self-Care but Not Like That.”

    (I love you.)

    🚀 2,300% Listener Growth • 9,999% Saves • 9,999% Streams • 9,800% Playlist Adds

    Either a rogue nation-state AI discovered me (slay)

    or people finally started hearing the signal beneath the noise.

    Nothing about this year was normal.

    Everything was magic.

    🏆 Accolades: The Early Riser • The Party Starter • The Night Owl

    Three badges.

    Three sides of Jade.

    Three reasons my playlists hit different.

    💚 What This Wrapped Means to Me

    This year wasn’t about going viral.

    This year was about becoming real.

    Four albums released in the span of fourteen months.

    Zero excuses.

    Zero shortcuts.

    Just creation, chaos, lavender, healing, and stubborn faith.

    And now my name lives inside Spotify Wrapped forever. Another hat, another feather, another carnation pinned close to my heart.

    2026 is the year I stop whispering and start broadcasting. Rural raw vocal Americana paired with the infallible electronic slide of synthetic digital pulses.

    🔥 CALL TO ACTION — JOIN THE JADEVERSAL STREAM TEAM 💚💚

    Sweetheart… this is the part where you come in.

    If you want to help me grow —

    if you want to be part of the next Wrapped —

    if you want to be one of the first 1,000 people to ever follow this cosmic rodeo of mine…

    Here’s how to support the JadeVerse in 30 seconds:

    🟢 1. Follow Jade Ann Byrne on Spotify

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/27v5LrG4o23NWEb9X73qXT?si=LHLWH9GLTJSgsjw7hLG3XQ

    Tap the green button.

    It’s free.

    It changes my life.

    💚 2. Add my music to your Likes

    Hit the heart on every track you vibe with.

    Spotify notices. The algorithm blushes.

    🎧 3. Add my albums & songs to your playlists

    Make it personal.

    Make it aesthetic.

    Make it chaos-coded.

    Your playlists tell Spotify I matter.

    🔁 4. Add my playlists to YOUR profile

    Let your friends see you’re early to Jade Ann Byrne.

    Trendsetter behavior only.

    🧡 5. Share my tracks to your friends’ playlists

    Yes — especially your dad’s Spotify.

    Dad playlists LOVE me.

    Workplace playlists?

    Even better.

    Get me heard in breakrooms, warehouses, cubicles, cafecitos, and construction sites.

    🎵 6. Check out my friends’ playlists too

    The JadeVerse is communal.

    My friends curate heat.

    Show them love — they’re part of the ecosystem that carries me.

    💫 7. Press play while you cook, drive, shower, game, or sleep

    Streams count whenever the universe flows.

    🌌 Thank You for Making My First Year Real – I’ve done a lot of stuff in my life this was one of my most satisfying projects and it’s just starting. There is no one else. Just me. Your support, love, and occasional pizzas have been appreciated.

    From October 2024 to December 2025, I didn’t just release music —

    I released pieces of my story.

    Thank you for listening.

    Thank you for choosing me.

    Thank you for being part of my first Wrapped.

    We go further in 2026.

    Louder. Brighter. Wilder.

    Paladin energy only.

    With All My Love

    Jade Ann Byrne

    A Little Gift for the True Super Listeners…

    If you made it all the way to the bottom of this blog, sweetheart…

    you’ve unlocked the secret cutscene of the JadeVerse.

    This photo isn’t just spice —

    it’s a whole chronomancy ritual strapped to my thighs.

    Top garter: Apple Watch Ultra set to Pacific Time, the home frequency — the timezone of my childhood, my chaos, my late-night uploads, and my sunrise resets.

    Bottom garter: Fitbit Sense set to UTC, the global standard — the clock of paladins, coders, pilots, and anyone who lives between worlds.

    Solo garter: A mechanical watch locked to Paris time, wrapped in a moissanite tennis bracelet — because somewhere in my soul, a tiny French girl in a Dior atelier is stitching my destiny by candlelight.

    All three? Time Mage Unkocked

    Garters hand-customed by me, built like little wearable altars to the timelines I walk.

    And the look is completed with:

    ✨ Victoria’s Secret PINK Dog “LOVE” shorts — chaos but make it adorable

    ✨ Lavender Dusk Lululemon Scuba full-zip — my battle hoodie, my armor

    ✨ Sterling silver + platinum rings stacked heavy

    ✨ Over a dozen carats of moissanite catching every photon like a disco ball blessing

    It’s not an outfit.

    It’s a multi-realm synchronization spell

    performed by a cosmic rodeo cowgirl who tracks three timelines and still shows up on beat.

    Welcome to the JadeVerse, babe.

    Time runs for me — not the other way around.

    Post Script

    Autographs and physical albums — just text

    +1 (424) 249-9846

    Tell me which time zone you want me to sign from:

    Pacific, UTC, or Paris. ✨

  • The Art That Sees You Back — Ink, Instinct, and the Witch’s Eye

    By Jade Ann Byrne · Eat My Cake Records · Sweet n Sour Chocobo Visual Department

    There’s a special kind of magic when a line drawing refuses to behave.

    When it shrugs off the rules of portraiture and says,

    “No, darling — I’m not here to show you what’s real. I’m here to show you what’s inside you.”

    Today’s piece is exactly that… a deceptively simple black-ink gesture that turns into a full-blown Rorschach séance the moment your eyes land on it.

    A Witch’s Linework: Drawn Once, Echoed Forever

    I’ve always been pulled toward the kind of art that moves like a spell — not the big dramatic magic, but the subtle kind. The fingertip magic. The “I sketched this in one breath and somehow it carries every lifetime I’ve ever lived” magic.

    This drawing, with its swooped sunglasses, teased eyelashes, and long, defiant stroke across the brow, is that kind of spell.

    It’s a witch mark.

    It’s a glamour.

    It’s a little bit eGirl, a little bit outlaw, a little bit Midwest farm-kid who grew up reading shapes in the clouds and stories in the barn wood knots.

    Rorschach for the Fashion Girlies

    People keep asking me:

    “Jade… what is it?”

    And every time I smile because that’s the whole point.

    Some folks see a woman tipping her sunglasses down, judging the world with a smirk.

    Others see a masked vigilante.

    Some see a bird, a fox, a goddess.

    A few see themselves — and that’s when the art gets good, sugar.

    This is Rorschach-couture.

    Fashion-ink-psychology.

    A vibe check drawn in black.

    Not the kind of ink blot they threatened you with in the psych ward…

    The kind your inner self whispers meaning into.

    The Art That Wears You

    I always say: “Some art is worn, and some art wears you.”

    This one?

    This one wears you.

    Put it on a car, a notebook, a jacket, a vinyl decal… and suddenly the world thinks you’re someone who knows something. Someone with secrets. Someone who doesn’t look at life — life looks at them.

    The image becomes a mirror.

    A mood ring.

    A witch’s scrying glass in broad daylight.

    People project onto it, and in that projection, they reveal themselves.

    That’s the kind of art I live for.

    Ink Blots for the Modern eGirl Mystic

    There’s this belief that ink blot art is random — that it’s just shapes and accidents.

    But anyone who’s ever stirred honey into tea, or watched sage smoke curl upward, or traced runes in the dirt with the heel of their boot knows:

    Nothing is random.

    This piece is the grown-up, femme-forward, witch-coded version of the classic Rorschach test.

    Where the old blots asked, “What’s wrong with you?”

    This one asks, “Who are you becoming?”

    And oh, baby… some of y’all are becoming powerful.

    Jade Ann Byrne Witch Style — The Signature

    My art style has always lived at the crossroads:

    Midwest tall-tale energy California glam Old-world witchcraft A little anime, a little outlaw And a whole lot of “Draw it fast, honor the line, let the spirit move”

    That’s what this is.

    A single line with a heartbeat.

    A silhouette with a soul.

    A moment captured so quickly it feels stolen from another world.

    Final Blessing

    When you look at this drawing, may it show you:

    Your confidence Your shadow Your humor Your grit Your goddess energy And the part of you that refuses to be small

    May it be a mirror.

    May it be a mask.

    May it be a message.

    And may it wear you as beautifully as you wear it.