David’s Message In NMHF

Tracewillow

Yipeee!!   I received my 2 cd’s of the album today from Amazon.   Whether I have heard those songs before or not is immaterial – it’s always exciting to receive something of David’s through the post!!

Put on your reading glasses and read his message that accompanies the cd!

Still can’t read?   Ohh…okaaay…I’ll type it out for you guys.   (Scanning?   Whattzzat?!     )

“As always, I would like to thank my Heavenly Father.   During these two years,  I dedicate my time to Him and to His Gospel.   I have always tried to do my best to dedicate whatever I do to Him – whether it be music or other things.   Nothing has changed much in that aspect from before and as a missionary, and neither will it change afterwards.   I am grateful for the plan He has for each and everyone of us.   I also want to thank my family for their support, and the sacrifices they have made.   They are the foundation of who I am, and I love each and everyone of them!

I want to thank the Chile Rancagua Mission for being helpful in allowing me to work as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but also helping me to complete with the mission I still have in the other part of my life with music.   Thank you President MacArthur for helping so much, and to all of my missionary companions who have helped too.

I want to thank Gina and Kari for all of the work they have been doing and the effort they have been putting while I have been gone.   I know it is not easy to take care of someone when they aren’t even there, and for that I appreciate everything you have been doing.   Thank you so much for the care you show to the fans, and for taking care of things!

Thanks to Steves Rodriguez, Kim Tauber and Howard Siegel for all your help on the business side of things.   Thank you to Pablo Mathiason for pouring over all the fine details.   Huge thanks to Alan Grunblatt, Neil Levine, Veronica Villarreal, Gio Melchiorre, Chuck Oliner, Paul Grosso and the entire eOne team.   To all the writers and producers that I have had the chance to work with – Thank you!   Also, thanks to Roslyn Pineda and Jon Daza – the “overseas” help was tremendous!   And big shout out & my appreciation to the DA official website team for keeping things updated and looking great!

Lastly, I want to thank all of you fans.   I appreciate your respect for what my focus is for these 2 years, and appreciate all of the messages you have sent my way while being out here.   This is another gift to all of you of songs from past projects that weren’t easily available to everyone, and also other songs that are new to you fans that we have pulled out of the vault.   Thank you for all you do and for waiting.   This is my thanks to you for everything in the past, present and future.   That No Matter How Far, what was in the heart before is still here, and will be here when I return.

Muchisimas gracias!   Hasta pronto!   David”

  Sob..   Tears..  (Us, not David)

Now go buy the album!  

Watch Out! April Fool’s Day Is Here!

By Tracewillow

Yes it is!   Beware and be warned!   The jokers and tricksters are out on their prowl!   Are we prepared or are we fool enough to be the butt of their jokes and tricks?

(But I swear the release of NMHF is not an April Fool joke – it’s REAL and SERIOUS and needs all our support).

We all know about how we can easily be duped and taken unawares on this fateful day of the year, but do we know how this practice came about and how widespread this tradition is?   There are many claims of origins;   one of them being that it began in Europe as light-hearted celebrations of the arrival of Spring, even as far as the Roman times.

Another claim is it was popular with the “fools” and court jesters during the Middle Ages, who were actually men of wisdom.   It was the role of these jesters to put things in perspective for the King, but done with humour.

I read that on April 1, 2008, Google announced a project together with the Virgin Group, to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars.

And in 2009, Youtube announced “a new viewing experience”  - and when one clicked in to watch, the whole layout, including the vids, was flipped upside down.

I remember BBC also joined in the April Fool pranks, announcing that spaghetti was growing out of certain trees.   There was a massive number of enquiries as a result.

If David’s OS too were to jump onto the same fun-wagon this year to announce that he has cut short the tenure of his Mission and will soon embark on his return journey – together with airplane Flight No. and schedules details  - just to give more credence to the “news” –  would you be gullible enough to pop a bottle of champagne and hold archies parties in celebration?   Would hordes of archies in the US be frantically rushing to the airports while their international counterparts glue their eyes on Youtube and the fansites for the latest news?   LOL!   April Fools!  

These April Fool jokes below had gone through my mind.   How would you have reacted to them, had you believed them to be true and are not hoaxes?

That NMHF is just for starters.   That there will be another album a few months later temporarily named “Me And My Meow-Meow”

That there will be a D vs D Rematch in 2014  (to boost the present AI ratings perhaps?)

That Nandito Ako Part 2 will be filmed in 2014, the synopsis of which is:   “Orla rises from the dead…Anya retires to a convent… Josh becomes an aqua-singer to sing to the sharks underwater

That David will spring yet another happy surprise on us later in the year – an album filled with hard rock and funk – written by himself during his contemplative  moments in Chile

That a Huge sponsor will release every song David has ever sung, as SINGLES, simply because his wife (a crazy mad archie) has threatened him with divorce if he didn’t

That David is rumoured to be secretly married and is hiding in a love nest in the caves of the Andes (or perhaps Utah) until his baby is born

LOL!   April Fool!

I doubt you guys would have believed a single word!  

Just watch out next year!  

In the meantime, do share some of the April Fool pranks you have played on your friends (or should I say, enemies!) and the ones they have played on you.  

No Matter How Far

So, it’s been 3 days since NMHF has been released. You know what that means. It’s time for a proper dissection, no?

Although I was all gung-ho for the new album when it was first announced, I was quite disappointed to find that there were only 2 original songs on the album. Two of them are just not enough to satisfy my hunger. I was hoping for more original material this time around. But I suppose we should all be grateful that we have an album to look forward to. Since I’m sure most of the songs on the album have been previously heard, I’m going to lay my thoughts on the brand new tracks.

“Don’t make a sound, I’ll be your voice.”

The second I clicked ‘play’ on Don’t Run Away, I was instantly transported down memory lane. The piano intro brought me back to the time when we admired David’s piano playing by the lake in 2009 (Crush). I started fangirling so much that I had to pause the song to recollect my sanity. Call me obsessive but I actually envisioned the rhythmic drum beats in the background as David’s heartbeats. No judging please! Big props to our fellow Archie, Kylie Malchus for the creative and artistic music video for Don’t Run Away. If you have not watched it, then you need to get out from under that rock and check it out right here:

And if you like what you see, you can also check out Kylie’s take on Elevator below:

Next up is Heart Falls Out. Let me just start by confirming that all our hearts fell out when David started singing. Mine fell out and I’m still searching for it. So if you find mine, please notify me. As long as the song is playing, I find it hard to concentrate on anything else. It’s a breath of fresh air as this song is much more upbeat than melancholy lead single. I’d compare this track to the likes of Elevator. It’s just something about the whole “try to breathe but your lungs shut down” that vaguely resembles “I didn’t know which floor to get off on” from Elevator. David sounds rather upbeat singing about being helpless with a broken heart though.

What is most ironic about this song is the lyrical content. David has insert some wisdom of his in this song and it’s quite evident in certain lines. Personally, I think this should’ve been the lead single of the album instead of Don’t Run Away. I can picture people bobbing their heads up and down humming to tune whilst the song is played on the radio. What David speaks of, or rather sings of, in this particular song is a phase that everyone goes through at least once in their life. The phase where you just feel like you need a change of attitude as well as a change of perspective. Sometimes, life gets a little too dull that you just feel like dusting yourself off and splashing an array of colours to your world. And perhaps what David intended as the theme of the song is not, in fact, about dealing with broken hearts but rather about change and adaptation.

“It’s a battle in my head and I don’t want it.”

It’s this underlying message David has subtly embedded into this song that really warms my heart. It resonates with the reason I’ve come to love and appreciate this fine young artiste and I hold this song as a testament to our promises. I truly love to read in between the lines for every song of David’s because I get the impression that he is always trying to convey where his thoughts are.

Well played, David, well played.

With all that said, which of the two originals ended up as your personal favourite? And if you were a director for a day, how would you film a music video for Heart Falls Out? Also as added fun, let’s try to caption this picture:

Dude, what have you been eating?!

On a final note, if you have not bought the album yet, you can do it right now on iTunes or WowHD. I would recommend the latter as it provides free shipping to anywhere in the world.

“At times the feeling’s unknown, I’m sick of what I’ve become.”

- Tracy

NMHF is heeeere………!!

 

Oh there you are!!…..HELLO DAVID!!!  ♥♥♥

ENOUGH OF STARING – NOW GO LISTEN AND LEARN THE SONG – HEART FALLS OUT – IN FULL !!    

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuYdsInmBU

No Matter How Far – Billboard Album Premier!!

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/1554218/david-archuleta-no-matter-how-far-exclusive-album-premiere

Coming Soon – NO MATTER HOW FAR!!

Aaaaaaarrrrggghhhh…!!!   Whatzzzzdeeesss…!!

Don’t we dissect David enough already?

Now we are dissecting his body too?!  

Methinks Kari is a teaser and she has a wicked sense of humour.  

YEZZZ Kari….!   We want more body parts!   Bring dem onnn…!

and we want HEART FALLS OUT and NO MATTER HOW FAR   A S A P   ! ! !

Prince David

By Liying

I was watching Nick Pitera’s One Man Disney Medley on Youtube the other day and I was just thinking to myself, if David were a Disney character who’d I imagine he’d most likely be?

Well I’m a huge fan of Disney princes and heroes. They do look cute. When I was in college I sort of regressed a little and started re-watching Disney cartoons. I was watching Sleeping Beauty and I thought maybe D looked a bit like Prince Philip. What do you think?

Not really actually. But most of us Archies who have had David dreams can probably sing “I know you I’ve walked with you once upon a dream” to David and it’d be totally true.

Wouldn’t it be nice to imagine him dancing with you in a wood?

Then I was watching The Little Mermaid and I thought maybe Prince Eric looked more like D. Let’s take a look.

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hmm… David has nicer eyes. Haha. Or that may be me just being a little biased.

 

Or how about Aladdin because he sang A Whole New World. Remember? I was kind of disappointed in him because he couldn’t remember the whole song though.

Anyways I think David reminds me the most of Captain Shang from Mulan. I can imagine David singing this song. Nowadays when I think of the song I hear David’s voice singing it. Lol. Of course he never walks around shirtless like this. Although that would be cool.

 

 There was also one part when Mulan first sees Shang strutting around bare-chested and she ogles at him for a bit. Haha. I didn’t notice such things when I was younger. I’d have the same expression looking at David.

 

David would make a nice Captain Shang don’t you think?

By the way, David has a sexy back. Thanks ohnopurple for the pic

So what Disney character do you think David resembles the most?