DAVID Archuleta – the cute one from season seven of American Idol — attended the 2010 Stand Up to Cancer Benefit in Culver City, CA, Friday night.

Meanwhile, the teen superstar says one of the songs on his upcoming album – Elevator – 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,” he told The Commercial AppeaL newspaper. “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.”

“It all happened a lot faster that I imagined it,” he said 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..”

Source: ShowbizSpy.com
Photographs by Bob Charlotte (click to enlarge)

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Even though it’s another weekend and we all have plans and some of us may be getting hyped for the beginning of the NFL season, take a moment to remember 9/11 and all the lives that were lost and all of the heros that made sacrifices. This tragic event is a day no one will ever forget, and some say, a day that brought America together. I thought of this video; David singing to the men and women at the fire station. I still get chills everytime I here him sing this and think about all the lives that have gone before us. Have a blessed day and don’t forget to take a moment and think about how lucky we are to still be here!

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When I read the name of the song David would be singing for the MDA Jerry Lewis Telethon, it triggered a little hitch in my heart. The name, “Things Are Gonna Get Better,” reflects what I consider David’s foundation attitude and belief about life, his optimistic outlook and glass-half-full view of the world. And I was hoping for a song that would truly highlight all that David is as a singer…a vocal master, a pop soloist, a soulful artist and a balladeer. Was I hoping for too much?

Apparently not!

“Things Are Gonna Get Better” seems to be able to support all the myriad vocal persona’s that combine so beautifully to give us David Archuleta. The song begins with David’s signature opening, the half hum, half “yeah, yeah” that warms up both David’s voice and the audience and which gives just a hint of “Soulful David.” The opening verse has that acoustic feel that straddles the fence between pop and ballad, and allows us to really hear the soothing dulcet tone of David’s voice.

The beat steps up for the refrain and David can’t help but involve his whole body in the music. But the real treat comes when the final verse begins – David reaches those high notes that will likely send a shiver up your spine, and marks him as a vocal master.

There are parts of this song that bring to mind David’s performances on American Idol. He starts out slow and builds up the song until the ending showcases the VOICE he is known for. More than any of his recent pop performances, this one feels like a David song.

Back when he was first starting to think about this album he talked about his love of acoustic music as a style, but when SBL was released, it appeared that David might have turned a little more toward straight pop. Now, upon hearing this song, along with Elevator, a quirky song that reflects David’s playful side, it seems we will get an album that will include something for everyone. Not a set of songs chosen just for that purpose, but a true reflection of the breadth of music which David is capable of performing, and which he loves.