By Jade Ann Byrne — Eat My Cake Records
Today I got the kind of notification that makes a girl stop mid-scroll, blink twice, and whisper “no way” into the cosmos.
Cosmic Rodeo Queen (Juno’s Version) just crossed 5,000 plays in the U.S. on Apple Music — and baby, for an indie California eGirl with a cosmic cowgirl heart and a Wyoming zip code, that feels like striking glitter oil in the desert.
You can listen here:
JADE ANN BYRNE – COSMIC RODEO QUEEN dot FLACC
When I recorded this song, I didn’t know if anyone would understand it.
Space Country Trap wasn’t a genre. Hell, I made it up because it was the only sound that matched my life equal parts heartbreak, neon twilight, dusty roads, digital stardust, physics, faith, rodeo energy, eGirl packaging, and California wildness.
And now it’s out there.
And you — YES YOU — played it five thousand times.
Five. Thousand.
5K real ears.
5K tiny universes where this song lived for three minutes and some change.
5K reminders that this dream of mine actually has wings (and spurs).
I know I’m supposed to act all cool and mysterious and industry-brained but babe… I’m not built like that. I’m built like a girl who spent half her life fighting to be heard and the other half trying to stay alive long enough to sing about it.
So tonight, I’m just grateful. Grateful and loud.
To everyone who streamed it in their car, in their headphones, at work, in bed, during a cry, during a glow-up, on a treadmill, while gaming, while cooking, while daydreaming — thank you.
To my tiny team (me + DJ Wet CupCake + my multiverse of Paladins) — thank you.
To California for birthing this heatwave of a sound.
To Wyoming for giving me the quiet to write it.
To the universe for letting me live long enough to be a Cosmic Rodeo Queen in the first place.
If you haven’t heard it yet, ride with me:
👉 Insert Apple Music link again
And if you have?
Run it back for me, sweetheart.
Let’s hit 10,000 together.
The rodeo just started.
The cosmos is listening.
And I love y’all more than you know.
— Jade Ann Byrne
Eat My Cake Records
Cosmic Rodeo Queen of the Multiverse
“To everyone who hit play even once: thank you for your service to the Cosmic Rodeo.”
I’m here with you, always.