Posts Tagged ‘David Archuelta’

Finally! A blog! We’re waiting for a vlog but at least we have a blog. Better to have a blog than nothing, right? You were great, David! Imagine’s awesome!

Don’t forget to watch his Utah Blaze halftime performance!

Helloooo everyone. I wanted to check in really quick and let you know about my time yesterday back at the American Idol studios. I had such a great time!!

I have to admit being on that stage again shook me and my nerves up pretty good. I wasn’t sure what was going on with my mind. Just seeing the audience, the contestants, and then the judges was so weird lol. But I saw Ellen smiling right before I started and it made me feel better haha. But I haven’t really performed Imagine very much in the last couple of years since I had sung it twice on Idol, and now it’s 3 times. But it was such a privilege to get to sing it again, because I think it’s a song with a message that’s important for people to hear again right now. It also reminded me of how much that song meant to me, and to again show people what I love about what music can do for others.

So while I was at the studios, I got to meet all of the contestants. I was on my way to get something from my hotel room, and saw them all standing outside waiting for rehearsal. I got out of the car and ran out to say hi to all of them really quick. A group of cool people! And they sure did really well this week. I’m really glad that the judges decided to use the save this week with big Mike because that was pretty intense lol. Anyway, I also got to see all of the crew again! my old studio teacher who now is Katie and Aaron’s teacher was there, along with all the stage managers, producers, security, cleaners, technicians, and so many more people. I forgot how many people were involved to make the show happen, and I was glad to see them all.

My mom decided the day before to drive down with my grandpa and sister to come see the show since my mom’s dad has never attended an Idol show. It was fun having them there, along with some of my friends. It was a fun night to perform and have them there since Jason Derulo and Rihanna were there. Jason and I both performed at Jordin Sparks’ charity event back in February, and he is seriously one of the coolest, friendliest artists out there. A really nice guy, and my little sister
loves him lol. I also had the chance to meet Rihanna who was also really nice (and tall, but she had really high heels on. She’s still taller than me either way.) But it was just a fun day yesterday! I hope those of you who watched it enjoyed it! I love getting to sing a song like that, and hope to find more songs like that in the future to perform for you guys .

Another thing I got to do this week was go to the Five For Fighting concert with Matt Wertz opening for them! It was such a goooood concert!! Matt invited me to go and it is one of my favorite concerts I’ve attended! The music was just so good, and it just moves you. Some of my friends came with me and were introduced to some great music. You guys ought to check both of them out if you haven’t yet! One of the dances at my high school actually had a Matt Wertz song as the theme haha. That’s how I first found out about his music, and now I’ve gotten the chance to write with him and hang out with him. And as you may know from going to the Christmas tour, I performed a Five for Fighting song called The Riddle during those concerts. When I was watching that show, it made me really think, “Man, I hope to be able to do that with my own music and writing some day.” John Ondrasik (from
Five for Fighting) really does that with the songs that he writes. He tells amazing stories in them that just really hit you and make you think and feel. But really it was a great great show!

Well that’s all I had to say for now! I wanted to let you guys know I had a great time at Idol, and now after a meeting and some interviews today I’m off to a writing session. Tomorrow I’ll be singing at the half time game for the Utah Blaze, which will be fun to support a Utah team haha. One of my really good friends is such a Blaze fan, and I’m doing it in honor of him. It’ll be great to be with my family tomorrow too since it’s my mom’s birthday. But I better get going to this writing session, and I’ll talk to you guys later!

David

Songs for the day:

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Videos

ty to babs2655 for these!

Pale is the New Tan!

Move over Edward, David is the new pale cutie in town!

Thanks to Ken for the pics!

First up are my faveeeeeessssssssss. Click on MORE to enjoy a bazillion more things Archuleta!

I can do this forever. haha.

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Vulture Predicts 2009 Grammys!

Why yes, Vulture, that’s about right!

More Than Just Words!

Here’s a wonderful work of art from neji_kun84. If you look closely, it’s not just a drawing. It’s made from words that describe David! Humble, meek, innocent.. tell us what words you see!

A Text from David!

Props to FOD.

David wants us to watch his acting debut tomorrow night at 8:00 PM on iCarly! Give him a call or text back afterward to let him know what you thought of the show!

Thanks to Ken for the headsup!

Lady, You’ve Got ODD

As promised, FemaleFirst has posted their interview with David. Read and see how much of a fangirl the author has become.

David Archuleta Interview

After being crowned runner-up in American Idol last year, David Archuleta’s career has gone from strength to strength, and he looks set to capture hearts all over the world.

A the tender age of just 18, David has a unique voice, and his debut UK single, Crush, is one of the most amazing songs I have heard in a long time. I caught up with David to find out about his plans for the future, living to be 100 and his love and respect for the amazing Natasha Bedingfield.

Hey David, how’s it going?

Great thanks! How about you?

Great thanks! I’m listening to your delicious song Crush! We love it! Anyway, how have the past 12 months been for you?

They have been really crazy but it’s amazing to see how much can happen to you in one year. This time last year I was actually getting ready for a school dance and I have auditioned already and we had had Hollywood week on the show but no-one knew about it and only a few people had seen the commercials that I was on and I tried to keep it as low key as I could because I was worried about people getting excited about it and them me having to tell them; “I’m back home already!”

So I didn’t tell people, but the week after that school dance I left for good and I never came back! I didn’t even get to say goodbye to anyone because I didn’t realise how long I would last on the show, and I honestly thought “I’ll see them again soon,” but I didn’t end up seeing them until about five months later!

Aww, that’s so sweet, I bet they all knew you’d do really well! But before you entered American Idol you were in Star Search; so have you wanted to sing from an early age?

Well the first thing that made me interested in music was when I was six or seven years old and I watched Les Miserables tenth anniversary, and I was watching it on TV and I just couldn’t turn it off. I was like in love with it! I learnt all the songs and it just went on from there.

I started wanting to perform and do it as a career when the first season of American Idol started really, which is ironic, because it’s what made me first want to sing, and ultimately it is what has made me do it after all these years!

Okay, well we know you’re an amazing solo artist, but if you were offered the chance to join a band, which would you join?

As a singer? [FF: Yes!] I don’t know, I don’t know if I would want to replace any of those singers! I mean there are some awesome bands out there like U2 and Coldplay. Although I think it would be really cool to be in The Fray. And I really like Second Hand Serenade too, they sing a song called Your Call [FF: I don’t know that song.]

*David Sings FemaleFirst the song and we go weak at the knees!*

I want to try to learn it, I can play it on the guitar because it’s pretty easy, but normally I wouldn’t be able to play a song on guitar because I suck at it. It’s such a great song though and you have to hear it. I want to do it on my tour.

Do it! You came second on the Forbes List Of Breakout Stars; how does that make you feel?

Who is number one? [FF; We don’t know, you’re the only one that matters!] Wow! That’s so cool. It’s always weird to think of things like that where you’re on a list like that. It’s especially odd when I get so distracted and spacey that I don’t realise what’s going on. I can just suddenly be like “Woah! I have a song on the radio! I have an album out! I’m seeing all these amazing places!” It’s just so strange when you stop and think about everything that’s happened, it just blows you away.

What was it like presenting a Teen Choice award?

That was really fun. It was cool to be able to present with David Cook and we presented an award to Miley Cyrus and she is so funny! She has a lot of energy and is all over the place, bouncing off the walls!

It was a big honour to also present at the American Music Awards too, that was fun, I got to present the Best Male Country Artist to Brad Paisley which was amazing. He sings on of my favourite Country songs. Have you heard it? It’s When I Get Where I’m Going It’s really pretty. I haven’t had much chance to keep up with the British charts recently though.

Nothing much is happening to be honest, it’s all about Lady Ga Ga at the moment

She’s number one here now; she’s so nice and interesting and different. I love that song, I’m always dancing to that song; when it comes on in the car I just blast it! I also really like the song, Untouched by The Veronicas. I t was popular for them in Australia in 2007 and is becoming popular in the US and it’s the biggest song they have had here.

I’m going to have to check out all these songs! If you could only listen to one CD for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Oh man, I don’t know, that’s too hard to chose!

What if you had to pick one, or get your head chopped off?

Okay, I guess it totally depends on my mood. Maybe a John Mayer CD, I really like his live album, Where The Light Is.; it’s a really good one. Or maybe, Blue by Joni Mitchell, that’s one of my favourite records. I love every song on that CD.

I love CD’s like that that you can listen to over and over again.

Oh! You know what, I really like Natasha Bedingfield. [FF: Oh my gosh, I love Natasha Bedingfield!] Yeah? She’s one of my favourite artists! I went to see her when she played with New Kids On The Block and I was texting her saying “Hey! I’m coming to see you!”

[FF: No Way! As if you were texting Natasha Bedingfield, I’m so jealous!] Haha, she’s one of the coolest people I’ve ever met! She’s one of my biggest inspirations. I started writing because of These Words. It’s one of my five favourite songs of all time.

Me too! Aww, you’re like my soul mate! So, what is the oldest age you would like to be alive?

I think I would say 100. I think if you live to 100 you have had a good life. But I guess it would depend on how healthy I was; because if you’re not in good heath, I don’t think there would be a reason to live that long unless there is something in your life that you still have to do.

I think there are some things in life that you are supposed to do before you die. If you are still alive you still need to fight to do something. [FF; Stay alive until you have completed everything?] I don’t know, I don’t think you can ever complete everything, you can always keep doing things and improving on things.

It all depends, I would say if you’re still alive, you still need to be doing stuff. If you are having health complications then it’s a different story, but it’s always sad with those kinds of things because there are young people who are really fighting and we can really learn so much from those people. It teaches you to appreciate things in life a lot more.

There was a little girl I met for Make A Wish and she was fighting cancer and it was so sad to see her fighting so hard. It took her almost five minutes to smile for a picture or to say a word. She is such a strong little girl and I learnt so much from her. Those things remind you how important what you have really is; those things in life make you appreciate things in life even more.

That is so touching David, it’s refreshing to talk to someone so grounded. We ask everyone we interview to come up with a question for the next person we interview, and Kid British wants to know; “If you could be any car, what would you be?”

I wouldn’t mind being a Tyota Prius because it’s fuel efficient and you’d be healthy to the environment! Haha. I think it would suit me because I’m not this big, buff strong person, I’m just the little guy which is sort of like a Prius. Ilove them actually, they’re fun to drive and they don’t use a lot of gas either.

So finally can you come up with a person for the next person I interview please?

Lets see, ask them, ‘If you could open up your own restaurant, what type of food would you serve?’

Ooh, I love it, I’d do Italian!

Yeah, I was thinking Italian too!

Okay, thanks David Bye!

Bye!

With a mutual love for Italian food and Natasha Bedingfield, I feel like I like David even more now! What’s more, with such an infectious personality, and an amazing voice to boot, I think David is going to be one of the brightest stars of 2009.

FemaleFirst – Ruth Harrison/Source.

Edit: omygoooossh, I love that Brad Paisley song to pieces!!!!!

Ruth Harrison, you missy don’t know what’s going to hit you. It’s called ODD. And no one is ever going to recover from it.  Guess I’d just welcome you to the Arch Angel Community! *hugs*

Audio Post!

And so, we have another audio post where you can stream the following audio files. This time, we’re having another interview, and the songs from David’s AOL Sessions. I know we’re still high with the AOL fever, so do drop a comment or two below, and tell us which songs you love the most!

Here’s the Interview from B96.

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And the AOL Sessions, for your streaming pleasure. I know you guys can’t get enough of them.

Crush

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ALTNOY

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TMH

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MH

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You Can

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David on Entertainment Buzz!

NBC’s Entertainment Buzz interviewed David prior to the Thanksgiving parade, and he talks about it and life after idol (which I’m sure we already know). These media people need some new questions to ask! Who else to go to for some creative (as in non-girlfriend-or-cook-questions) questions, but the Archangels! If only we had our own Tv and Radio stations, haha.

I wanted to embed it here, but it’s on autoplay.  You may check the video here.

Thanks to Kat for the heads-up!

UPDATE: Broken mp4 links have been repaced with good ones! Enjoy!

I’ve never been more dead in my life than when I saw the AOL pics and performances but I’m pretending I’m alive so I can post these goodies. Enjoy!!!

To start off, here’s a killer animation. Pumas, Cougars, Mums, Ladies, hold your thoughts. We must maintain AP’s “wholesome” image. LOL.

AOL SESSIONS Interviews!

1. David discusses the influence of Les Miserables and Tamyra Gray on his singing career:

2. David talks about his non-competitive relationship with David Cook, and as a special treat, you get to see David do a little air-guitar:

3. David tries to explain how surreal it is to meet famous singers he has admired. The best line: “Seal…he’s really…tall.”

4. David talks about performing live with his band and how someday he would like to improvise and “add little twists” to his songs:

5. David talks about the inspiration behind Touch My Hand: “sometimes you see someone that just stands out, and you sing to them.”

6. David finishes by discussing his solo tour early next year, the Christmas concerts coming up soon, and “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. For Thanksgiving.”

Who Needs AOL When You can Have Sessions with David Anytime, Anywhere!

And as promised, here are the downloadable AOL Sessions Performances in mp4 format: