Posts Tagged ‘a little too not over you’

Wait For You

Remember Elliott Yamin’s video? Well there seems to be a familiar face in it. No it isn’t Archie. Hmm… Could be my eyes are playing tricks on me or could it be that the girl in that vid is also the ALTNOY girl? Wouldn’t have noticed it if Todd from fanscene hadn’t suggested in his post that she looked like fernanda. And i kinda agree. Look at the vid and the screencaps. What do you think? And she seems to have that thing for beaches and cameras. Woot2x

Caps!

ALTNOY on Billboard!

A Little Too Not Over You sees daylight in this week’s Billboard Charts! And it hasn’t even formally impacted radio stations yet. Let me spell H-I-T for ya! *wink*

Pop 100 Airplay (airplay): #73

Pop 100 (sales & airplay): #93

Thanks to Ken for the caps/headsup!

Credits to FSteven for posting this at TA forums and to the snarky girls for doing the interview.

Here are a few bits that caught my attention.

Q&A with the co-writer of ALTNOY and Somebody Out There

Did you have to guide him a lot, or was it more spontaneous?
Well, being a producer, you always have to guide it a bit, to get the overall sound that you want. But the great thing about working with David is that he’s so pro. He’s so, you know, it’s second nature for him. He knows what to do. He knows how to take direction. And he has an ear of his own, so he knows what works right for the song. And just as well as he sang on American Idol, he sang in the studio. He’s great. It’s a pleasure. He’s amazing to work with; he’s really great.

Did you have to guide him a lot, or was it more spontaneous?
Well, being a producer, you always have to guide it a bit, to get the overall sound that you want. But the great thing about working with David is that he’s so pro. He’s so, you know, it’s second nature for him. He knows what to do. He knows how to take direction. And he has an ear of his own, so he knows what works right for the song. And just as well as he sang on American Idol, he sang in the studio. He’s great. It’s a pleasure. He’s amazing to work with; he’s really great.

So you and Matthew did more of the melody and David and Robbie came up with the lyrics?
Yeah, well, you can’t even really say that. Everyone kinda came up with the melody. Primarily, lyrically, that was leaned more towards Robbie and David, you could say that. But everyone was equally involved.

But David suggested so many…. Every time we’d play a part, he’d sing a great little thing. Like I think, there’s a melody in the second verse that’s a little bit different than the first verse. A little change on it. And that was entirely David. That was his. He came up with that thing and we all went, “Wow, that’s really cool, we gotta keep that in there.”

OK, this might be an awkward question, but he seems to be unsure as a songwriter. Is his lack of confidence warranted, or would you say he’s just very humble?
I think he’s really humble. I think he’s overly humble. But every songwriter has the thing, “Oh, will people like it?” I think he’s always really critical of himself, but he’s great.

What do you think of Somebody Out There being doomed

as a track you only get when you preorder?
Oh, we were so bummed about that. We hate it. Of course! We want it to be an album track at least, and a single. We have heard rumors that they might put it on sale again. I’ve heard other rumors that they might press it on the CD. I don’t know how true that is. I haven’t heard that directly from the record company or anything, but I can tell you this –- that the fans made A Little Too Not Over You the next single and because of the fans and your Web sites and the fan sites, that’s why that song is doing so well.

It also sorta got a life of its own on iTunes, didn’t it?
Yeah, but I think, you know, what you guys are doing helped that. I think pumping that song, if you guys pump that song [when people hear it, they'll love it] – I believe it’s a great song. I believe it could be a hit. I love it.

He says he’s not very good on guitar. Have you seen him play?
And he actually called me from his video shoot and he was like, “Can you tell me the chords for A Little Too Not Over You?” and he was playing it over the phone for me. Yeah, he can play. He plays piano great and he plays guitar. He is very talented.

I think it would be really cool to see him get up and bust out a guitar to play Somebody Out There. I think that would be way cool if he did that actually.

I bet if it was ever made an album track or a single, I bet you he would do that. I’m sure he would at some point. Just like he does with the piano for Crush.

Would you say David was good to work with?
Oh, very. He’s one of the best. He is really, really cool. He’s the real deal. A lot of people don’t know this, but he’s for real. He’s very talented. He’s very musical. He knows his crap, you know.

Can you give me an example of something he did that sho

w off his realness?
Um, I mean. I don’t even know how to answer that. He’s just for real. He’s just, you know, he can sit down and he can write a song on his own. I think that he has to be more confident overall when he is writing with people, but that is only going to come with doing it more. But I mean, he’s a pro for real.

Would you say David’s a natural songwriter, or does he have to work at it?
He definitely is a natural songwriter, but even being natural songwriter, you always have to work at it. You know what I mean? Like you’ve just always got to be better and there [are] so many things that make a great songwriter. Having great melodies, great lyrics, being able to write it in a perspective that people can relate to and not be to cryptic. I think that what makes a great song is that it can be played simply, you can play it on a piano or on an acoustic guitar and it will come across the same as if it was fully produced. [If] you can just sit in a room and play it and people like it, then that’s a good song to me.

So would you say that David is greater than or equal to all boy bands?
Oh, yeah. He’s by far a superior singer than most boy bands.

Yeah, he is. He’s a real singer. He’s a really great singer. Some

boy band singers are really great. I mean, Justin Timberlake is really great. And then there are some boy band singers who aren’t so great.

But David’s on a whole different level than a lot of singers.

No one denies that David’s a great singer, but he doesn’t really get credit for being an artist.
I think in time it will come across. Like to me David is an artist. If you get to meet him and you know him and you know how much he loves music, then you know — he’s a walking jukebox. He knows every song by everyone and he loves music. He’s a music lover.

Do you have any final words?
Yeah, here, make Somebody Out There a huge hit. Just promote it. I think people will like it if it’s pushed.

You can go over to Snarkys for the entire article.

Got this bit of info from larissa at TA int’l

“A Little Too Not Over You” is slated for release on January 6th, 2009. Let’s get ALTNOY to number one as fast as possible and create some good buzz for it on ITunes and Amazon! Teamarchie.com is running an incentive contest to support his newest single. This contest has a two-fold purpose. The first is to gain new Archies around the world, and the second is to gift ALTNOY to as many people as we can, old and new fans alike.

The rules are very easy. All you need to do is to go out and recruit new archies and refer them back to us for ALTNOY gifting. We are pushing for NEW archie fans. A great place to find new archies is YouTube. He is gaining new fans every day, many who go to YouTube to check his music out and read the commentary. Another way to recruit new archies is to spread his music to people you know already. A link or two to his music will pique their interest and leave them wanting to hear more. We would love to gift to people who are just learning more about David. These gifts are like fertilizer for the seed that you planted!

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