Hello everyone! Sorry about the seeming lateness of this post, but I have been very busy with classes this quarter! Let's cut to the chase.
David Archuleta, Archie, Elder Archuleta, that guy from American Idol season 7, however you know him, has a brand new album of original songs that came out on March 26, 2013!! Yes, he is still on a mission, but being the wonderful person that he is, he has planned more surprises than us fans can ever hope for before his departure. When Kari, his manager, announced this through his official twitter on January 31st, I was having a quick lunch and hurrying off to prepare for a presentation for English class when I received the tweet. Let me tell you, it was very difficult to hold in the spazzing and my nervousness regarding the presentation until class was over. According to David's official website, the album will include songs previously unreleased (officially in the U.S. I think) and NEW RECORDED MATERIAL!!! *SPAZZZZ* ASKJKDFJHEGK;LJFGH.
Anyways, the single off the new album is "Don't Run Away", which became available on iTunes and Amazon on February 12. You can listen to the whole song on the SoundCloud player below:
Tracklist:
1. Nothing Else Better To Do
2. Everything And More
3. Don’t Run Away
4. Tell Me
5. Love Don’t Hate
6. Wait
7. Heart Falls Out (only song new to me*)
8. Notice Me
9. I’ll Never Go
10. Forevermore
*track 1 was a Japanese bonus track for The Other Side of Down (2010).
*tracks 2, 5, 6, 8 were previously released in The Other Side of Down: Asian Tour Edition.
*track 3 was leaked around November 2012 and is the current single.
*tracks 4, 9, 10 are covers of OPM songs previously released in Forevermore and Forevermore: Expanded Edition in the Philippines.
You can purchase this amazing album online here:
Amazon
kmart
Sears
Target
WOW HD (free shipping!)
~In Store (& online)
Barnes & Noble
Best Buy
Deseret Book
Walmart
~Digital Versions:
Amazon MP3
iTunes
Still haven't decided to purchase or not? Here are some album reviews:
AllMusic
Bearing News
The Guide
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Setonian
If you cannot afford the album or the single, please do not download illegally! Contact all the lovely Archies on twitter and fan sites and they'll do their best to help you out! The album will be released under Entertainment One.
This post will be updated as more information becomes available. Thanks for looking!
~Rinnie
Hello everyone! Since today marks 1 year after the first show of the My Kind of Christmas Tour, I decided to write a post about my experience, an experience of this tour from a fan who, very sadly, could not make a show.
*flashes back to 1 year ago*
I live in Seattle, and did not make the "Idol" tour show in Tacoma or the David/Demi tour show in Seattle because I was out of the country both times (Philippines and Taiwan respectively, summer vacation!). Determined to make a show, I got my hopes up that he might come here, since he hasn't been here in so long. When the tour dates came out, I was crushed. The closest shows from me were in Idaho, and the cities were 12-hour drives away, trips that I could not afford. A friend of mine goes to college in L.A. and lives less than 20 minutes away from the Anaheim venue and reasonably close to the L.A. venue, but I also could not afford to fly down and visit her to go to the shows together. Maybe I had a feeling that this would be his last tour in a long time, I don't know, but having waited almost 4 years to attend a David concert was just getting a little too long. It especially hurt to hear people talking about this being their 10th David concert, or complaining that they couldn't make a show this time, having already seem him more than twice.
However, many amazing ninja fans delivered! On the night of each show, I eagerly scrolled through my twitter feed for live updates of the show, for funny occurrences and for songs sung during VIP. The next morning, I would comb YouTube for the best quality video I could find of each performance. Eventually I would have favorites (such as This Christmas, Sleigh Ride, Fa La La La La, Climb Every Mountain) and focus on watching those performances from all the different shows.
I remember on the night of the Salt Lake City show, there was a cellcast/screencast. I was so excited to be watching a show live, and the quality was actually pretty darn great considering! David sounded absolutely amazing, but when he got very choked up talking about his family at one point, I realized that something must be up, since he sounded like he was saying goodbye. Sure enough, David said that he had an important announcement to make later in the show. Sitting at the edge of my seat with bated breath, I listened as he announced that he has decided to go on a full-time mission. I immediately started clapping and getting all excited for him...before I realized what that meant for the fans.
*back to the present*
But David has given us so much! I couldn't have asked for more and could never thank me enough. "Good things come to those who wait" right? I can wait 2 more years to tell David how much of an inspiration he is to me and to attend a show of his. Those of my friends unaware of my experiences are surprised that I have never seen him perform live, and think that I'm probably satisfied living off the YouTube performances. That kind of stings. I mean, come on, seeing your favorite singer in concert is not always easy! I know I'm just rambling now and have stopped making sense so I'll stop now. Thanks for reading!
~Rinnie
On October 19th, David's manager, Kari, tweeted us through his account that something special is coming soon in the form of "Forevermore- Expanded Edition"! It's an expanded edition of the March 2012 Philippines release. At first I thought the photo attached would be a screencap of the upcoming "Rainbow- remix" music video, since we've been anticipating that for a while. Well, I guess I was half right, since this special release does include it. Here's the photo she actually tweeted:
Isn't the album cover lovely? I think so! This time, soon does mean soon! Kari tweeted that the album will be released after 10/31 but before 11/21 (it's already being manufactured!). Oh my goodness, David and Kari are too good to us fans! And here's the album's contents that she tweeted on the 25th:
Looks like the only new things are the music videos, the "Rainbow" remix, and some extra minus-ones (the Rainbow minus-one seems to be missing, guess they didn't want to overwhelm us with quadruple rainbows haha!). But guess what? I'll be getting it anyway!
If you don't live in the Philippines and are interested in getting a copy too, here are places you can order from online (Available since 11/14/2012):
Amazon
WOW HD
For more information, visit David's official site.
~Rinnie
