CRUSH Hits 100 Million Views

David tweets!

Found out “Crush” has hit 100 million views on @youtube today!!! Thanks everyone for the love after all these years!!

I’m not sure who is prouder of those figures – David himself or us, the fans!   😀

CRUSH the song and our Crush for David Archuleta is still strong ……. and continues!!!  ♥

To be totally correct the video has reached 100,043,302 views. (at the time of posting this blog!) (forgive me if I have miscalculated or misread)

That is  – One Hundred Million, Forty-Three Thousand Three Hundred and Two views!🥰 🥰 🥰   Mind-boggling!

It’s quite baffling to me how a teenage song can have such a lingering endurance on my list of favourite music.  The CRUSH  CD with David’s face on it, is sitting right next to my other favourite – Puccini  –  makes more convenient accessibility during my hours of needing great and stimulating music.  2 totally kind of composers but they both elicit bliss and elation for me!

When CRUSH was first released and it was played all over the place, one of our very young club members remarked:  David should still be singing this song even when he reaches the ripe old age of 60 years and beyond!!  She was right!!  David is far from reaching that age at the moment, so there will be many many more views for this song in the years to come.   😀

A New Holiday Song?

Our man tweets

It’s officially November! So I put together a @Spotify playlist featuring some of my favorite holiday songs! Check ’em out at https://spoti.fi/2WwFcmI . Maybe I’ll release a new holiday song to add to this playlist later this month…

Yes indeed, it’s officially November, David.!   In fact, in our part of the world, November happened yesterday!   😉   😀

And, as usual, David is up to his “old tricks”again to tease us and get us all excited about a new song!  No details .. no dates .. no title .. hah! so we can’t hold him to it.  Naughty man!   😉  😀

Well then, we’ll just hang around (as usual) to see what’s the surprise!

Since he has started the ball rolling and placed us in a Christmas mood, I thought I would post this David-song.   It’s an oldish vid – but you can’t possibly get tired of it.  And David’s voice in that song  – what can I say that you don’t know or you don’t feel already?   😥

I’m not Christian but, like him, I love Christmas songs.  They give you love-goosebumps.  Love for everyone around you.  Love for the world. They make you feel like you want to cry.  We need an abundance of that kinda feeling in our world nowadays.   😥   😥

Yeah .. we need more Christmases!  Like Everyday??  haha!  Especially when there’s some David-ness in them!   ♥

David Does MJ’s THRILLER on Piano

Thriller – Michael Jackson Trick or treat?! Thought I’d take on this song request for this spooky holiday! Happy Halloween! #michaeljackson #thriller

Not bad, not bad, David.  THRILLER  for HALLOWEEN!

Now, if only you would do MJ’s moves too, that would really be somethin’  🤣😎

Notice the single glove too!!   😀   😀

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, GUYS!!

David Makes Early Christmas Preparations

He tweets!

We’re just four weeks from kicking off my upcoming Christmas Tour in Richfield, UT!

You can purchase your tickets for #DAChristmasTour2019 at http://davidarchuleta.com . I’ll see you all next month!

David sounding excited about his forthcoming tour!  And looking even more excited!!   😀

Just to remind you how he puts his heart and soul to his singing, here’s Christmas Everyday at the Troubadour last year (as if you need reminding!    😉   Well, I need some Christmas swinging a la David Archuleta after those tweets!   😀

David Archuleta – Behind the Brand

I recently sat down with @BryanElliott in one of my most in-depth and personal interviews yet. We talked about the importance of mental health, how it impacted a lot of my songs, and why music has been very therapeutic for me. Check out the full interview: https://youtu.be/LikfNuO3lWA 

Now, that was indeed a very lengthy interview.  It did not feel like an interview, more like I’m a fly perched on a wall listening in to 2 people’s intimate chat.   We at last realise “knowing David Archuleta” takes years .. and only if he decides to reveal himself.

During his Idol days, I must confess most of us at our little club here thought him a very different person.  Much as we loved and adored him with all our hearts, he was, to us, “a pretty naive, a pretty superficial, no-problem, no-sweat” sort of a guy. For chrissake, he was still tied to his Daddy’s shoelaces (?), we thought.  We never delved into his inner self, that he might have been feeling unhappy or depressed – only that he was a little unsure of himself.  Yes, to us, he was a just a young innocent, carefree lad who we loved very much.  What complications can he have with a dreamboat face like his and an angel’s voice like his?

Alas.  We are all mistaken.  David is but human.  More “human” than many of us.   😉   He is deep.  He is profound and smart. He is more real and more complicated and interesting.  And we still love him very much.  His smile is still glorious.  His dimples are still intact.  His hair, I declare, is the best short version so far.  And his white polo-neck sweatshirt – a double thumbs-up!!  😀   😀

This interview David granted Bryan Elliott is totally honest .. raw .. sincere .. candid .. open ..  David reveals his mental and emotional state of mind during his Idol days and beyond.   A decade ago. Simon Cowell decided David wouldn’t be able to carry an interview (and he was probably right) but look at him now in this interview!!  He is confident, chatty, energetic and deep-thinking.

It was an intelligent, earnest interview which I totally enjoyed.   Hmm  ..  and I thought I knew David Archuleta…….

David in the Pits Again

David sends his message :

Even with the pimples on my face you keep Lovin’ Me” – Jonathan McReynolds

“Lovin’ Me” by Jonathan McReynolds

“I’m supposed to be asleep. Maybe jet lag has gotten the best of me. I also just have a lot on my mind and this happens every now and then where I just need to get through what feels like mental muck. It can be a few weeks or even over a month. But tonight what I felt like singing was this felt like singing was this @jonmcreynolds song, #lovinme. Songs and talks (aka sermons) bring me peace even when it’s so easy to look at my flaws and seep into the internal cold and cave-like climate that sometimes feels like is on the inside. I don’t normally post so much about it but I just need to get it out of my system and know I’m not just dwelling in silence like it’s not nothing. But I will say I’ve been in these down and dumpy mindsets before many times and I just need to remind myself that I got through it. I know this time will be the same, even though I don’t feel it right now. And instead of figuring out why I feel like it I’ve learned there isn’t always a specific why. Sometimes we just have to deal with it, keep fighting forward, and then we suddenly feel like “oh… I feel better now.” If any of you have felt down and in the dumps I just hope you know you’re not alone. And when you feel like “less of a person compared to everyone else.” He, our Heavenly Father, keeps loving us even when we don’t feel anyone could, would or should. Keep hanging in there. I feel better after singing this. I hope it helps anyone feeling the same way feel better too. Sorry for being all moody, (and I always write or say way more than necessary) but I can’t always show my happy days. I’m not perfect but overall I can say I’m happy even with these days that come and go. #latenightthoughts #lovingme #cover #coversong ”

Uuh-oh  .. David is feeling moody again.  In the pits too, he sounds like.

I’m impressed with his use of words though:  like mental muck .. internal cold .. cave-like climate .. I could use some of them next time I write my novels    😀

David’s words improvement must owe to the constant writing of lyrics.  In a way, I’m quietly  (not so quiet now)  celebrating for this wunderbar musician.  He is storing so much sensitivities inside.  He needs an outlet to release them.  What better way than to direct them into music and lyrics.  Forgive me if I’m wrong .. but I think David needs to have occasional moods of dumps .. melancholy .. high spirits and low spirits .. even tantrums .. to give out his most spectacular potential in his music writing.

Look at PARALYZED – it’s his finest song-writing yet.  And what a MOOD that is!!  David would do well if he sinks into his God-forgiven sensitivities and belt out from there whatever that is deep inside.

David Plays Tourist

I recently got back from my first explorer’s trip to Japan. It was really my first full-on trip to just simply visit somewhere as a “tourist”! My friend @jflake16 invited me to go with him, and he’s also who filmed this awesome video! Thanks to all the many new friends we made there who opened their doors and also their schedules to host us in this beautiful country!! I already miss all of you and hope to return again—and maybe do some proper shows when I return!

What’s an adventure that you took that’s memorable to you? It doesn’t have to be out of the country or even a travel trip. Feel free to share your experience in the comments! #japan#tokyo#kyoto#travel#imready

David has at long last the opportunity to “play” like a normal human being.  To play Tourist when he chooses to!! Yes, He Is Ready!   😀

A human being who now again visits another country as a proper visitor – a tourist.   To be able to take in the joys of witnessing and living the cultures of different peoples and seeing and touching the sights which he saw only in travel magazines or was just too busy singing and working to delve into all that .  To be able to talk to the locals as an ordinary guy with no business or religious motives or commercial agendas .. and not having to worry about his next concert or rehearsal  that evening.  He had mentioned many years before that Japan was the favourite place on his list to visit.  I’m more than happy to read that his wish had come true.

If you haven’t noticed it, David is the kind of person who gets his wishes come true.    He just has to wait for it.  The right time.. The right moment.  😀