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David Archuleta + Emanuel Kiriakou = Cheerleader Humor While Recording!

18 March 2010





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Humor comes on all levels but Eman is the tops when it comes to David Archuleta’s recent episode with cheerleaders and volleyball players rushing him after he disembarks his plane arriving in Los Angeles. Eman, I love you! David’s (Dry Humor) is priceless and reminds me of the kidding David Cook gave him during the AI Season 7 tour. Thanks for the memories!

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David Archuleta – Catch Me If You Can

18 March 2010





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As Simon Cowell once said, “When you got it, you got it”. So David, it’s good you like to run because you will be doing quite a bit of running from females for the rest of your life!

David Archuleta is becoming more well know as time passes and he surely will need someone to run interference for him. How many of us would apply for that job? Hmmm! Keep in shape, dear one, as you will need that fast break from time to time.

He is adorable and so funny as he takes life’s little annoyances in stride. Don’t forget David if one does catch you…remember what Mamma said, “Shop Around”. Haha!!!

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David Archuleta – Is He The King of Polls?

17 March 2010





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For several reasons this article tickles my funny bone as neither writer, Christina Kinon nor Donna Reynolds, listed David Archuleta as one of their favorite Idol contestants. But behold, look who is winning! As of this date with 42% of the vote, he is leading. It always amazes me there are still a few people who just don’t get it yet!!!! Oh well, they will eventually come around! Haha! David Archuleta, the King of Polls!

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by Donna Reynolds
Who is your all time favorite ‘American Idol’ contestant?

New York Daily News reality TV expert Cristina Kinon has put together a photo gallery of her all-time favorite American Idol contestants. She justifies her choices, which include some obvious and others not so obvious.

Kinon’s list includes David Cook, Kelly Clarkson, Ace Young, Amanda Overmyer, Chris Daughtry, Fantasia, Blake Lewis, Jennifer Hudson, Elliott Yamin, Carrie Underwood, Bo Bice, Matt Rogers, and Adam Lambert.

While I agree with most of her choices, I would take exception to Matt Rogers, the Season 3 jock…and Blake Lewis, the beat-boxing misfit whose inclusion in the Season 6 finals is still baffling. I’m not totally buying Ace Young in this group either, but he’s a good guy and has had an impressive post-Idol career on Broadway.

My all-time favorite Idol is Bo Bice who blazed the trail for future Idol rockers. I would also put Elliott Yamin and Adam Lambert on my list, along with Jennifer Hudson, Carrie Underwood, George Huff, Fantasia, Clay Aiken, Taylor Hicks, Kellie Pickler, and Allison Iraheta.

Who are your favorite Idols?

David Cook 2% (169 votes)
Kris Allen <1% (8 votes)
Adam Lambert 5% (535 votes)
Clay Aiken 3% (322 votes)
Chris Daughtry 1% (38 votes)
Elliott Yamin <1% (38 votes)
Jennifer Hudson <1% (5 votes)
Carrie Underwood 23% (2,449 votes)

David Archuleta 42% (4,473 votes)

Fantasia <1% (4 votes)
Kelly Clarkson 20% (2,149 votes)
Ruben Studdard <1% (5 votes)
Bo Bice 1% (74 votes)
Taylor Hicks 3% (354 votes)
Katharine McPhee <1% (5 votes)
Jordin Sparks <1% (1 votes)
Kellie Pickler <1% (17 votes)
Other: 1% (93 votes)

Total Votes: 10,739

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David Archuleta – Collaborating Songwriters and Possible Song Titles

16 March 2010





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We have all been wondering about the songs David has been working on and perhaps this following list will ease our anxiety just a little. From what we have heard, one is a real ‘tear jerker’ and I believe ‘Today’ is one that is a favorite of David’s.

Twenty songs seem to be finished and how many more are still to come, we don’t know. Perhaps they need more songs for the album and maybe that’s why David’s memoir has been moved back a few weeks so he can finish writing before, (wink, wink) he goes on a book tour. Wouldn’t that be lovely!! Let’s hope David gets the songs he wants on his album and we get a release soon. A book tour or a concert tour is desperately needed!!

This information is from David and twitters about his album. This starts from last year’s writing sessions, not just the new writing sessions this year. The more recent songwriting collaborations are written down in the groups of people he has worked with. There are a few duplicate names on the ‘writing with’ list.

The song list isn’t up to date, especially with the recent sessions in LA. The Nashville total should be close to the right total.

From: (CBismyhero) – Great List!
HAS WRITTEN/WORKED WITH DAVID:

Wayne Hector
Joy Williams
Matthew Bronleewe
Andy Dodd
Andrew Fromm
Robert Marvin
Jeremy Bose
Matt Wertz
Ed Cash
Rick Seibold
Jeymes Samuels
Victoria Horn(Lady V)
Matt Squire
Daniel Bedingfield
Kina Grannis
Andre Merritt
Adam Messinger & Nasri Atweh (The Messengers)
Emanuel Kiriakou
Benton Paul
Dapo Torimiro
Priscilla Renea
Lindy Robbins
Jackie Boyz(w/ Dapo Torimiro)
Drew Ryan Scott(w/ Dapo Torimiro)
august Rigo(w/ justin graham, stereotypestv, eric nicks)
Jeremy Bose, Cindy Morgan
Cary Barlowe, Jesse Frasure, Joy Williams
Jamie Kenney, Jenn Schott, Joy Williams
Danny Orton(w/ Joy Williams, Jenn Schott)
Hillary Lindsey(w/ Joy Williams, Jamie Kenney)

WAS WORKING/WRITING FOR DAVID:

Jack Knight
Paul Mabury
Jess Cates
Claude Kelly
David Hodges
Inara George
Lil Eddie
The Writing Camp
Eddie Galan

SONGS:

– Nobody Knows (co-written with Rock Mafia)
– Notice Me (co-written with Joy Williams, Matt Bronleewe, Andrew Fromm)
– Sooner or Later (produced by Robert Marvin)
– Falling Awake (produced by Robert Marvin)
– Best Behavior (co-written with Matt Wertz)
– Today (cowritten with NasriWorld)
– 3 songs (co-written with Dapo Torimiro, Priscilla Renea, Lindy Robbins[1])
– Ballad (co-written with Joy Williams, Jamie Kenny, Jenn Schott)
– 3-4 songs (written by Eman, Claude Kelly, Jess Cates)

– 11 done in Nashville (estimate)
– 4 in LA (not up to date)

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David Archuleta Talks about why he sang ‘Imagine’ on American Idol

15 March 2010





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Two great performances from David Archuleta singing “Imagine,” one on American Idol and the other on a local show in Utah when he was 13!

Brian Mansfield poses the question, Was singing “Imagine” risky?

From Idol Chatter – Brian Mansfield

David Archuleta performs “Imagine” on AMERICAN IDOL Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008.

I’ve always thought David Archuleta’s Imagine was one of the riskiest choices a contestant has made on American Idol.

There were so many ways that February 2008 performance could have backfired on David. Simon Cowell acknowledged as much afterward, telling David it was “very, very risky to do a John Lennon song — particularly that one.”

After all, Imagine is an iconic song with a simple melody and a message considered both sacred and profane by different groups of people. Beatles fans could have turned on him for having the audacity to change the melody so much — or simply for being 17 and singing it. The judges might have thought it was too old — or too weighty — for him.

If David had sung the first verse about imagining there’s no Heaven, he probably never would have won back large segments of the show’s conservative, religious viewers. But starting the song on the third verse could have caused problems, too. It might have sent the message that he wasn’t willing to sing that first verse — even though he had time constraints as an excuse.

There were so many reasons that performance might not have worked — and the fact that David sang and smiled his way right past every last one of them made him one of that season’s instant favorites.

It turns out, though, that Imagine wasn’t David’s first choice that week.

“I actually picked another song before I picked Imagine,” David says, though he declines to name the other number. “But I knew I needed to do Imagine.

“It was scary, because everyone else was doing uptempo stuff. It was ’70s Week. It was, like, feel-good week. I didn’t even know that no one else picked slow songs until rehearsals, and I was scared.”

David even went so far as working up the arrangement of the first song, only later telling producers that he wanted to change his performance number.

“They were not happy that I wanted to change,” he recalls. First of all, switching songs made an already tight schedule even tighter. Secondly, they wanted David to sing the song’s first verse.

But David stuck to his guns.

“There are more important things about the song than the first verse,” he says. “I leave it to what matters — what matters in life and what matters in music. That song captures those things perfectly, and it captured what I wanted to do with music. It captured why I felt like I needed to be there and what I needed to say.

“Some people were, like, ‘Why didn’t he sing the first verse?’ You know what? The third verse is my favorite one. Not everybody focuses on what the song’s about — they just focus on those first words and obsess about ‘how bad it is.’ I’m a religious person. I felt like this song meant more than that, and I wasn’t going to let that distraction get in the way.

“People were upset that I wouldn’t do the first verse — ‘That’s the verse everyone knows!’ You know what? People need to listen to the song. I didn’t want people to think they already knew the song. I wanted people to listen, because there’s more meaning, and it captures a substance in music that is so meaningful to me.”

David says he also understood that, with switching verses, he ran the risk of being considered “cheesy,” but “it didn’t matter, because I said what I needed to say.

“Same with this next album. Maybe it’s cheesy, but there’s a point where you have to be brave to be cheesy, because you know it’s what you’re supposed to do. Maybe I’m a cheesy person, but that’s who I am. I’m not going to pretend to be somebody else just to humor society.”

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