Snarky Archies

He lives such an exciting life

2010-03-15T21:03:00.004-04:00

Did I ever mention I love his random tweets? THANKS FOR SHARING, DAVID!

Haha, Jim.

2010-03-15T17:45:00.006-04:00

Mr. Cantiello, you are quite the funny person. lololol! :D

=(

2010-03-15T17:32:00.007-04:00

Bah, such a bummer. That should NEVER happen. Oh Jive, what are we going to do with you. *shakes head*

"David Archuleta Writes More Music in Nashville"

2010-03-15T17:11:00.007-04:00

From CMT Blog:

I'm sorry, but if there is an American Idol finalist who DOESN'T want to get a piece of the country pie, I'd love to know about it. That's because the latest in a long string of Idols Gone Country is that adorable little David Archuleta. He was just in Nashville again last week, working with singer-songwriter Joy Williams, and together they collaborated with Cary Barlowe, Hillary Lindsey, and Danny Orton -- all practically guaranteed hit-makers who have written for Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, Tim McGraw and more. When it was all said and done, Archuletta had about 20 songs for his new album. Oh, and he got to hang in the studio with iCarly's Jennette McCurdy while he was in town because she's been in Nashville making her own country album. I'm not saying they are a couple. But if they were a couple, they'd be an awfully cute one.

Photo credit: Jive Records

I REALLY like that he wrote with people who have wrote with country singers. Nashville was made for David. YESSSSSSSS! :)

IF I WAS A RICH GIRL

2010-03-15T16:52:00.003-04:00

nanananananana

I won't even get into the Fiddler version.

ok well, this seems so middle school, but we started a new book in English and right now we know the family is going to receive a $10,000 check for money passed down and everyone in the family has certain goals they want to accomplish with said money. She told us from a recent check in '08, $10,000 is now worth $90,000, so our assignment is to describe what we would do if we had that kind of money.

You know that Archuleta kid seems like a cool thing to spend money on.. what David related things would you do if you were the recipient of $90,000?

Go to one of his super famous SLC concerts?
Travel around the country to see him?
Buy VIP's for you and 10+ (Archie-)friends?
Buy CD's or gift CD's/singles for friends?
Donate to one of the Archucharities?

+

=
<33333333333

word up and happy Monday

Twitter trending party for David's 1 year Twitter Anniversary

2010-03-15T15:40:00.005-04:00

update: to clear up some confusion in the comments, David did join Twitter March 16th, but did not tweet until 1 month later April 16th. So the twitter party is to celebrate his 1 year of joining Twitter, not his 1 year of his first tweet. Trending party is still tomorrow. Thanks.

xMelliie screencapped for us to show us the March 16th join date. Thanks!

Tomorrow is David's 1 year anniversary of being on Twitter. A bunch of the fan sites came together and coordinated the trending topic so we'd all match. If you run a fan site and were not contacted, it's because I don't have a contact email for you and not because anyone was deliberately left out. You can email me your contact email address at: velcrogirl10@aol.com for next time if you'd like. :)

What: Twitter trending party
What to trend: #1yrDavidArchie
When: 7 pm EST

Let's do this for David! It will be great buzz for David's twitter to get him more followers :)

How the heck?!

2010-03-15T15:21:00.002-04:00

A day in the life of David Archuleta, you guys. Finding cats under hoods of cars, nbd, nbd.

he's home :)

2010-03-15T13:39:00.003-04:00

Brian gets two "really's." niiiiiiiiiice!

update on the Music Scholarship, $4,258.76!

2010-03-15T11:34:00.008-04:00

vid credit to stragerphilosophy
link to donate here.

way to go, guys!!!

Fan art: New edits from Juan

2010-03-15T08:21:00.005-04:00

Hey Snarky Archies!
Been extremely busy working on some projects, and I just found some time to create two quick edits. The Fist one, which is called "Somnium In Astrum" or "Dream In The Stars" is all about being inspired and following your dreams.
The second edit was inspired by David's "In This Moment". I remember the first time I heard David sing that song, chills were going down my spine. Hopefully I captured David in his moment. Enjoy!

Juan M.

Niiiiiiiice work, dude! :)

Dear David,

2010-03-14T22:57:00.004-04:00

Hello, kind sir!

I would like to thank you for existing. You are quite possibly the realest (and yet most unrealistic) person I have ever seen. And by unrealistic I mean it is HONESTLY hard for me at times to remember that you're a real person.

And why? Oh I dunno. Probably because you're like 1,000 fortune cookies in the body of a 19 year old boy. And those fortune cookies are cheesy, yes. But they some how in an odd way tend to make people's days. Whether they make people laugh, or smile, or provoke real thought.

YES, I JUST COMPARED YOU TO A FORTUNE COOKIE

David Archuleta is a fortune cookie.

In all seriousness, David. Thank you for letting me be myself. Even if I don't quite know who myself is yet, whoever I am you've helped me be more comfortable being it.

THANK YOU and good night

Love,
The Queen

risky business

2010-03-14T22:19:00.003-04:00

vid credit to Caliiniiqka18

Mansfield's piece on Imagine

2010-03-14T21:24:00.011-04:00

David Archuleta reflects on 'Imagine'

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 David for having the audacity to change the melody so much -- or simply for being 17 and sing 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's 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 leaves 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."

source
David, did you really 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."???

i think i adore you. yep pretty sure i do <3.

edit: i was just reminded that David's first choice was 'You've Made Me So Very Happy' by Blood, Sweat & Tears. i absolutely despise that song. it is my most :(((( song ever. i wonder if David could make me like it??? oh man, i wonder how my life would have been different NOW if he had done it? LOL, thank goodness, i'll never know!!!!

The Mansfield interview!!!

2010-03-14T18:25:00.010-04:00

David Archuleta talks Nashville, new songs and forthcoming memoir

Last week, David Archuleta returned to Nashville to write more songs for his next album. As he did during his last Music City visit in October, he worked with singer/songwriter Joy Williams, even staying at the house of Williams and her husband, Nate Yetton.

"Sometimes, people are like, 'Nashville, it's only the country and the ballads,'" David said Friday morning, while sitting at Williams' breakfast table, eating a bowl of cereal and granola. "They are good at that kind of stuff, but they care about the music. Sometimes people forget that special thing and piece to music that is so important. People get lost in 'We need the hit' and 'We need the hook.' So much is missing from that that I enjoy about music."

David and Williams brought a variety of other writers into last week's collaborations, among them Cary Barlowe (co-writer of Lady Antebellum's latest country hit, American Honey), Hillary Lindsey (Carrie Underwood's Jesus, Take the Wheel), Danny Orton (Josh Gracin and Tim McGraw's Telluride), Jenn Schott and Jamie Kenney.

"Jamie's just such a sensitive person," says the 19-year-old singer. "Even the melodies, and the way he plays the piano are so sensitive and emotional. When he was playing the piano part on the track, he paid so much attention to the way he played, how it emoted and what was trying to be said and felt in the song. I loved that. I've never seen anybody pay that much attention to those kinds of details, which I loved."

On Tuesday, for instance, David, Williams, Kenney and Jesse Frasure wrote a song called Nervous. "It's about going ahead and doing it, even if you're scared," David says. "The main thing is, 'So what if I'm nervous?' Sometimes you have to take those risks, and sometimes you'll be nervous, but why should that be an excuse? Some things, you need to do that way. And sometimes those are the most fulfilling things in life.

Monday brought a love song with Jeremy Bowes and Cindy Morgan ("It wasn't about anyone specifically; it was about wondering who that person might be in the future"). Wednesday yielded a ballad with Kenney and Schott ("It was an honest song, about admitting that you're not perfect ... It's just about letting the inside out").

In all, David says he's written about 20 songs so far for his next album. And as much as he'd like to have more hit singles, he says it's more important to him to convey his personality through his music.

"So many people know who I am and say they're fans and don't know I have an album out, even," he says. "People are still fans, and it's interesting, because it's not even because of my music.

I want people to say, 'I appreciate what David's trying to do, in that he tries his best to be who he is and keep doing what he's doing, and that shows in his music. I can see him and feel him in his music. I can see his personality, and I can see what he believes in and what's important to him.'"

David started writing for the album in the fall, but then came his Christmas album and holiday tour. Then had had to work on his memoir, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance, set for a June 1 release.

"Now I'm finally getting back to the music," he says.

Writing Chords of Strength was a difficult process, David says. "I never thought I was interesting enough to write about myself. I didn't think I had enough words to come out of me to make sense."

David calls writing the book a great learning experience, "because it helped me remember things I hadn't thought about for a long time. Sometimes you get so caught up in what everybody else is focusing on -- the music, American Idol -- that that's where your life is. It's like that's where you were born.

"Some people don't even think about your life before music. Even the writer I was working with would just focus on music. I started liking music and singing when I was 6. I didn't feel that into it until I was 11. I had a life.

"But my life isn't just music. Music's a part of my life. That's the thing I tried to make most apparent: Music is a part of my life, it isn't my life."

David generally shies away from discussing his religious convictions during interviews. "I don't want to weird people out," he says. "People have different views of life, and I try to respect that. I feel like music has a universal common ground, so I've just let the music do the speaking."

However, he delves into the subject of his faith in Chords of Strength.

"I decided if people want to know who I am, they need to know this about me, this part of my life and how important it is to me and how it has affected my decisions, how I view things, and why I am who I am.

"I feel like God's the reason why I'm here, and the way that I've tried to do what I feel is right is the reason why I'm here.

"Sometimes I feel like I don't have the knowledge it takes to be in this position. I don't know if I deserve this. But God has different plans for me, and I trust him."

While David's last trip to Nashville involved several outings in additions to his writing sessions, this most recent visit was more work-focused. He even had to skip a Lady Antebellum concert, which he had hoped to attend with actress/singer Jennette McCurdy because he was in the studio recording one of the new songs.

"I still want to go to the Pancake Pantry," he says. "That's the place that people keep telling me about. I haven't been there yet."

i wish to bold the entire interview.
i sorta love his interview to pieces. probs more.

from usatoday.com Idol Chatter

Dear Concerts,

2010-03-14T17:19:00.008-04:00

I miss you. I miss the countdowns, the kaboom kaboom in my heart, the car rides, the fans, the aura, the excitement, the voice, the dances, the runs, the rambling, the smiles, the screams, the tears, the hugs, the cellcasts, the videos, and so much more.

Please oh please come again this summer, okay? My heart is aching, and I can only watch old videos for so much longer. Hopefully, you'll be filled with awesomeness like Best Behavior. Because that would umm MAKE MY LIFE. Yes, yes it would. Just sayin'... :D. I hope to see you sooooon!!

Much love,
-kitkat

new art by Rabid

2010-03-14T15:02:00.003-04:00

Thanks, Rabid! This is amazing!

the making of Somos El Mundo update

2010-03-14T14:49:00.004-04:00

according to Kirsten...

The behind the scenes Somos El Mundo show isn't airing today after all. For some reason, they waited until today to change the schedule. I found this on the TV guide website.

Somos el Mundo - Voz y Alama
UNI 26 Sun, Mar 21 1:00pm

...so be prepared to watch it NEXT Sunday at 2pm eastern/1pm central time. :/

thanks for the info <3

my guide has neither the info for today, nor the info for next Sunday. i shall be tivo-ing both, just in case.

woah!

2010-03-14T13:21:00.003-04:00

i found this on Keith Munyan's site here. he's the guy who did a photo shoot a really long time agoooooo. it's an old pic, but i like it. a lot.

YouCanCallMeTina's Rockford Compilation

2010-03-14T11:55:00.003-04:00

epic night! epic I'll Be, epic Desperate <333

thanks, Tina <3333

pretty cool!

2010-03-14T11:51:00.002-04:00

link to donate here.

Question time! :D

2010-03-14T10:48:00.000-04:00

If you could say just one sentence to David, what would it be?

If you could give him just one gift?

If you could spend five minutes with him?

If you could introduce him to any food that he hasn't already tweeted about, what would it be?

If you could recommend any one artist to him?

If you could sing on stage with him, which song would you want to sing?

If you could make him follow someone on Twitter, who would it be?

If you and David could go anywhere together for a day, where would you want to go?

(:

(If anyone has questions they'd like to see, post a comment about it.)

HAPPY SUNDAY!

2010-03-14T10:24:00.006-04:00

Video credit: VWilliams1231
Wheeeee, hope everyone has a GREAT day! :)

David and George

2010-03-14T09:28:00.004-04:00

George Clinton and David Archuleta at Paramount Studios Rock The Vote Event in Los Angeles on January 29, 2010
January 29, 2010 - Los Angeles, CA, USA

lololololololol. this is from FOD's front page this morning.
original source here.

REMINDER: the making of Somos el Mundo on Univision

2010-03-14T08:00:00.001-04:00

The making of Somos el Mundo is going to be on Univision today. My local listings say 4 pm EST. The show will be 1 hour long. Make sure you check your local listings for the times, I'm not sure if it's on at the same time for everyone. It will also be a fundraiser for Haiti.

more magazine scans

2010-03-13T22:37:00.007-05:00

courtesty of Archuleta Avenue Malaysia. Thanks! :)

More Magazine Scans!

More magazine scans from the Kawanku Magazine mentioned in the previous post and one from Singapore’s August Man Magazine (Dec 09 issue). Big thanks to Yan for all the scans

This is the magazine they mentioned btw, we posted the cover awhile back.

and here are the scans :)