You called, and he answered! Recently David took some time (while at David Archuleta headquarters, of course) to check and respond to the great messages you all leave on his mobile hotline (801-386-8196 if you don’t know it) so check out part one of his responses right now, and stay tuned for part 2!Call David Archuleta’s Mobile Hotline anytime at 801-386-8196

On his upcoming third release, The Other Side of Down, due in stores Oct. 5, Dave Archuleta has a song he wrote called “Elevator,” that was inspired by a dream he had recently.

“In my dream there’s a huge building with all these different floors and elevators going to different places, and I didn’t know which floor to get off at,” says the 19-year-old singer, who performs Sunday at the Delta Fair & Music Festival. “The song is just reflective of life. How there’s so many different decisions, so many different things that can happen to you in your life. They may not always make sense, and it can be really confusing at times. But it’s an endless ride. Sometimes it takes you up. Sometimes it takes you down. But it’s the butterflies that keeping you feeling so alive.”

With its message of feeling overwhelmed by choices, the song neatly sums up Archuleta’s life over the past three years, a period that resembles a roller coaster as much as a bank of elevators. Though he was already a show business pro — he won the junior vocal division of the television talent contest “Star Search 2? when he was 12 — the Utah native was only 16 years old when he became one of the youngest contestants ever on the seventh season of “American Idol” in 2007.

“It was hard being that young on the show,” says Archuleta. “I had three hours of school extra on top of everything else we had to do. And the fact that I was the only minor, it made it more difficult. It was harder to relate to people, harder to connect with someone, even though we were going through the same situation.”

Archuleta came in second on his season, losing in the final vote to David Cook. But he did well enough to earn his own shot at a recording career. Jive Records signed him and released his self-titled debut in 2008.

Despite most people’s assumption that “Idol” contestants go on to become puppets in a giant music-making machine, Archuleta bears out other former contestants’ assertions that being on the hit show is an opportunity; but once its over, what you do with the opportunity is up to you. For a teenager like Archuleta that responsibility, with all its incumbent choices and responsibilities, proved daunting.

“It all happened a lot faster that I imagined it,” he says of his sudden music career. “I thought I would have a year to figure out what I was going do and then opportunities would maybe start coming. But it was just like boom, boom, boom, didn’t stop. I had to learn a lot faster. I felt like I was trying to hang onto something that was moving a lot quicker than I was able to keep up with. But it pushed me past my boundaries — what I thought were my boundaries — and I learned a lot..”

Despite launching his career in front of tens of millions of people, for his third studio album (a holiday collection, Christmas From the Heart came out last year), Archuleta wanted to show more of himself on The Other Side of Down.

“There’s definitely a lot more of me this time around, more of my thoughts and ideas and personality in the songs,” says Archuleta, who co-wrote 10 of the album’s 12 tracks. “I just though what worked for me is just being who I am. There’s a little more quirkiness to this album and more meaningful messages to the songs.”

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David Archuleta From the Stand Up To Cancer Red Carpet

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Update: David comes in at about 51:37, introduces Mary Lou, and talks about how much money Crush Kids’ Cancer–David Archuleta’s Angels have raised. Very impressive numbers!

Just because the broadcast is over, that doesn’t mean it’s too late to donate. Please call 1-888-90-STAND or visit the Stand Up To Cancer website. There are so many forms of cancer, and all of them need cures.

David discussing Crush Kids Cancer team on StandUp2Cancer:

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