RS: What was it like the first time you heard the song on the radio?
Barton: I get so happy. I always feel happy when the music is being put in to peoples' lives in some way. I mean the highest compliment
for me is for it to be played on dancefloors because that's what it was really designed for, so that people can move to it and connect
themselves to the music and express the music through their bodies. To me, that's the most cathartic expression of it. But radio's great
and radio makes us very happy. I just want to make music that makes people feel good, so I just hope that when people hear it it puts a
smile on their face.
RS: And with this being the third single, is there an album coming?
Barton: We've got an album ready but we're just going to keep releasing singles, and we're seeing with each single building more and
more momentum and there's just more acceptance and understanding of what we're doing. So we'll release the album when we feel like we can
release the album and then spending the money on the margin is actually going to do something worthwhile, because unfortunately it
does cost a lot of money to do all this.
RS: It makes sense.
Barton: I wish it was free. I've watched a lot of other artists who are independent release albums and the way that I experienced the
record industry as a whole is that if you want to sell an album you've got to be able to put some marketing behind it or else it really
doesn't make sense to put an album out.
RS: That's how Georgie Porgie did it, it worked well for him with single after single, and then with like five or six singles out
he dropped the album.
Barton: One thing I do feel really confident about is that whether I perform for the rest of my life or not, I have a gift for writing
songs. I sit down and they just come out of me, and Charlie is like that too. So I'm going to be writing for the rest of my life, it's
the thing that makes me the happiest to do, next to performing and producing.
RS: So Netsphere, it's just basically you guys and your own label?
Barton: It's just us doing it ourselves, but I'm not opposed to being on a larger label. It's just that one of the things that was
very important to me is to be able as the artist to decide who we want to work with, what remixers do we want to work with and how do we want
our video to look and what do we want the artwork on the album to look like. At this point in the game, we are producing art. It is art
for commerce but because we have complete control over it, we get to decide every aspect of it. That's something I take really, really
seriously and wouldn't necessarily want to give up control over it. I'm not the kind of person who won't listen to other peoples' opinions
because that's how we've gotten as far as we've gotten by being collaborative but I don't really like this idea of subsumed into this
large entity so yes, Netspheres is just us being independent. The name Netspheres is a reference to a network of people who have
different aspects, it's kind of coming back to the relationship that Charlie, Manny and I have because Netspheres also puts out material
that Manny has written by himself and we'd like to work with other artists in the future too.
RS: Then with the coverage and distribution, the song is available via CD single and download I assume?
Barton: We've got it on iTunes, CD Baby, and BeatPort, then through CD Baby it's on every single digital download site, you know how it
works.
RS: And one last question, what do you want to say to all your fans out there?
Barton: I know it sounds really corny but it's the greatest honor in the world to be able to make music for people that want to listen to it. So to all the people that consider themselves fans, thank you for honoring us with your ears.
