Here’s what I think really happened…
At Jive headquarters in New York City, the part-time assistant to the junior intern in charge of David’s album considers leaving the office. It’s nearing 6 p.m. and the day’s been a tough one. She’s frazzled and still queasy from post-traumatic motion sickness triggered by roller-coastering at Six Flags and ferris-wheeling at the Delta Fair in Memphis.
And her ever-growing To Do list isn’t helping:
1) Return Oprah’s call inviting David on the show.
2) Return the Nobel Committee’s call nominating David for The Peace Prize.
3) Restock coffee filters.
4) Book cross-Canada tour.
5) Blur the Sony logos from the SBL vid so it can be shown on MTV.
6) Update the DA.com site so that all the events are listed and link to a “buy tickets” page.
7) Return Z100’s calls requesting a live in-studio performance by David.
8) Remind Ryan Seacrest he promised to have David back on his radio show when the single was ready.
9 ) Deny Justin Bieber’s stylist’s request to “iconic-ize” David’s hair.
10) Send Jennette McCurdy two dozen roses … and a tree to plant.
11 ) Rent Time Machine to go back to the SBL debut date.
With so much to do, and so little time, she decides to prioritize by crossing all the items off her list except the last one — the Time Machine. One quick call to the rental company and they deliver a second-hand Time-Bender 680x (previously owned by Dick Clark).
After briefly reading the manual, the part-time assistant to the junior intern in charge of David’s album turns the ignition key and is zoomed backwards a couple of months. She erases all evidence of a debut album single, and while she’s at it, rewrites the ending of Lost to include a Kate-Jack, Sawyer-Juliet double wedding.
Back at Jive, it’s clocking-out time, so she sends a blast email off to the three Program Directors she feels a bond with, that states: “Please find attached 1st single from Ricky Archuletta’s Other Side of Upside Down — Escalator.”
As she shuts down her computer and leaves her executive broom closet for the day, she feels pleased at accomplishing a productive day’s work. “Sorry I’m late,” she tells her pet ferret as she comes in the door that evening. “But that is my absolute favourite song on the album, and I know it’s David’s too, so I have to give that extra push … now where are my motion-sickness meds?”
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Now try to watch this without smiling … I dare ya. 🙂
And I’m posting this ‘cuz I’m a little too not over it.
SnowAngelz: Canadian fans of David Archuleta 
TOfan..Your brilliance is showing again in your latest blog. Haha, love all of it and this:
“With so much to do, and so little time, she decides to prioritize by crossing all the items off her list except the last one — the Time Machine. One quick call to the rental company and they deliver a second-hand Time-Bender 680x (previously owned by Dick Clark).” LOL!
and this:
“Back at Jive, it’s clocking-out time, so she sends a blast email off to the three Program Directors she feels a bond with, that states: “Please find attached 1st single from Ricky Archuletta’s Other Side of Upside Down — Escalator.” LOL LOL!
Thanks for the great re-enactment. Yes, it was the part-time assistant to the junior intern and that Time-Bender 680X. It’s all so much clearer now!!
Okay and I did have to watch the videos again and how did I miss David and his giggles at the end and his “thank you very much”…”I sound like Elvis”. Hahaha.
I know! “I sound like Elvis”… has he just noticed that??? lol
TOfan, I was tearing up while reading from too much lauging. And I needed it cos been away from the fansites for awhile. My Office crashed and I lost half of the repot & presentation am doing &^%$#@!)(*&^%. I wonder if uploading & downloading anythingDavid has anything to do with it? You think (whistling now…)
Anw, after 5 attempts in 18 hours, here is David’s interview with Q107.5/Q96.1 Memphis, TN – I set it to pix from the Delta Music Festival. Great to see how huge the crowd was – enjoy!!!
JR, wow, way to make lemonade out of a day of lemons! Thank you!!!!!
TOfan – you are dazzling my dear, simply bomb diggity. 😀
You know what, I like this album intrigue. A.lot. And, I’m hoping there will be several more songs released as singles toooooooo.
Now my fantasy isn’t so creative as it involves closed door meetings, multiple conference calls, broken promises reminded in frankly framed demands, heated back and forth exchanges, favors called in, and, voila, we have two 1st singles.
Or my alternate fantasy involves someone high up with a brain cell actually listened to all the songs on the album and said “Wait, we have a major singer/songwriter album vibe going on here and SBL is not what we should promote as a the 1st single.” OR maybe, “Wait, why did you (jr. exec) not listen to David and let him select his lead off single? Make it so!”
The reality is probably closer to what you said above without the glamour – that what got sent to the radio stations was inaccurately worded by a harried and overworked assistant.
So SBL is the summer single and Elevator is the 1st single. Goodie.for.us. New David music.
Maybe OSOD will be the 1st single to follow the 1st single that followed the summer 1st single. lolz
Most people won’t even know there was two 1st singles…just us pssssss-sycho-fans bahahahahaha.
“Maybe OSOD will be the 1st single to follow the 1st single that followed the summer 1st single. lolz” bahahaha… you’re probably right! 😆
And guess what? SnowAngelz turns “1” this month so a big Happy Birthday to everybody!!!
Yes of course … I’m sure that’s the way it happened…thanks for clearing it up!! and this –>> “She’s frazzled and still queasy from post-traumatic motion sickness triggered by roller-coastering at Six Flags and ferris-wheeling at the Delta Fair in Memphis” LOLOLOL love it
The To Do list is … priceless!!!
and 4) Book cross-Canada tour. <–you always find a way to get this in hahaha … IT WILL HAPPEN 🙂
Always a fun read … thanks so much!
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Oh and a very Happy One Year Anniversary/Birthday to SnowAngelz
Love ya <3<3<3
{{{{{{{{{{♥Trish♥}}}}}}}}}}
Newsflash!
AOL Radio (home of 250+ free music stations and 150+ CBS Radio stations) just tweeted this:
@AOLRadio Hey David Archuleta fans: Got his next single ‘Elevator’ coming this morning! Stay tuned.
Listen online HERE.
Squeeeeeeeeee!!!
Love the David/Jive’s idea of a second first single! Brilliant! Or perhaps SBL is really just a figment of our collective imagination ? LOL. Thanks Tofan for the hilarious Archu-comedy!
Doesn’t “first single” always come with a music video? We need a music video for Jive to prove this is indeed the first single. haha. Tofan, I hope you are inspired and is already busy with the script for an Inception-style video for Elevator? :))
“an Inception-style video for Elevator?” <– love this idea!!!!!
2) Return the Nobel Committee’s call nominating David for The Peace Prize.
3) Restock coffee filters.
Bahahahaa!!! I love your mind. Why can’t they just release the whole album now as a multiple single?
Happy birthday SnowAngelz!!
Too funny! And brilliant. David is the only singer I know who is worthy of two—count ‘em—TWO first singles off an album. Ha!
I hope said assistant gets through that fantasy promotion list soon. It sure beats trying to talk David into wearing meat on his head.
Thanks for the morning laugh—a great way to start the day!
Dang it, I can’t find the assistant to the intern’s email to remind her that she was supposed to add:
4b. Full US tour to follow the Canadian tour and precede the Asian tour.
I needed this post today, TOFan, thanks!
Amazing! TOfan – your post always make my day 😀
“4) Book cross-Canada tour.” YES. Needs to happen.
Oh and now I know how to do sunglasses smileys: 8) 8) 8) 8)
PS love the tag. “David Archuleta can have any first single he wants.”
OK why did only half of those sunglasses smileys work???
8)
abanana, YJ, KH, Angelica, Archugeezer (still love that screenname btw!) Trish, I’m SOOOO glad you guys have just as twisted a sense of humour as I do! <3333333 😆
eeeeeeee, Elevator FTW!!!!!
@AOLRadio For our blog preview of David Archuleta’s ‘Elevator’, check it out here: http://bit.ly/buV0zO
Since it is our 1st birthday, perhaps we need a new site> “The TOfanscene, or Fans of TOfan, snarky TOfies … snowTofanz??? lol, TOfan rocks and is a hilarious writer jsyk.
I LOVE this post, LMAO all the way to the wine store…. I am in Spain right now and a good bottle is 2e!!!! There is a beautiful 1000 yr old monastary in the centre of the village and I plan to visit with my dpod and listen to some CFTH, but I will fit some OSOD in too. (not the wine though)
If elevator is the 1st single what really did happpen????? I can’t get it, but I do think that the singer songwriter vibe IS David, so going with that seems right.
Gonna love this album… and live will ….. I don’t know, kill us???
Canadian tour FTW 🙂
Refnaf, You are in Spain? How fun! Just heard the new and improved Elevator at AOL. Love it — it’s David at his most Davidest!!!
You’re SO close to me – might as well fly to Finland while you’re at it because you’re so lovely ❤
awww I would love too!! Someday embe 🙂
AAAARGH!!! I soooo wanna hear the final version of Elevator and SURPRISE SURPRISE the stupid friggin’ AOL thing says “Sorry, but you are such a loser for living in Finland that you’re not worthy of hearing the awesomeness that is David Archuleta’s fifteenth first single” and I’m going out of my minddd here!!
Yes, we get the same message here, embe. 😦
@HanneDenmark has some kind of program that lets you bypass those blocks but I can’t download it on my work computer. Good things come to those who wait!!!
AOL radio studio version sounds same as the one DJ played on the radio to me but I’m no musician.
bwahahahaha!! Oh TOfan, I lurrrrrrrrve YOU! You are so hilariously brilliant. Brilliantly hilarious. All of the above. {{{{hugz}}}}
OH, and Happy Birthday Snowangelz!!! Love you guys!
awww, beebs, extra cake for you!!!
♥ ♥ ♥
“Since it is our 1st birthday, perhaps we need a new site> “The TOfanscene, or Fans of TOfan, snarky TOfies … snowTofanz??? lol, TOfan rocks and is a hilarious writer jsyk.”
I am totally seconding this refnaf – TOfan is amazing and I would soooo join a fansite for her <33333333
And Happy Birthdays Snowangelzz!!!! 🙂
And you get your own BANANA cake!
8) 8) 8)
2 outta 3 ain’t bad! 😆
Hahaha hilariously random that the emoticons only work sometimes.
8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Newsflash!!!!
Elevator is now on AllAccess (and I’m pretty sure this is the radio version for those of us in Canada, Finland … and Spain! … who can’t listen on AOL Radio:
http://www.allaccess.com/top40-mainstream/cool-new-music
(Scroll down to the “D”s!!!)
There’s also a snippet of Stomping the Roses up at DA.com but I am RESISTING!!!! ooooo I REALLY want to hear that one too. *thinks of England*
Skip from 2:51 – 3:25 – back story is a so interesting – boy howdy!
‘Stomping the Roses’ it’s a killah – OMFG – *daid* –
Bless you, Kizzi!!!!! I stopped it from 2:51 to 3:25 and it worked!!! You’re right, soooo interesting.
I could watch vids of him talking about songwriting forever. … He “dug it”? LOLOL
Yep, those back stories are pure frosting and we still have the cake and ice cream to go! Woo hoo. 😀
gah TOfan #%#$%3 no idea how you will maintain this “snippet free” thang
I AM A PROFESSED SNIPPET LOVER
STR gah,,,,”did it occur to you” gah
Good Luck with that!!!!!
TOfan, can I help you think if England??
I’m thinking that maybe you might have to ride on the roof to York as I have a CD full of snippets to play for the journey.
Ooooppps,”of”
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😯
Well then, the alternate entertainment will be KT and trust me, you will be begging to hear those snippets… just saying.
bahahahahaha, she can’t be that bad … can she?
yessss I am a snippetholic, just sayin, repeat repeat repeat…TOfan bring some good ear pplugs!
Happy Birthday Snow Angelz!!
TOfan, you crack me up!! I love your quirky sense of humor. 😆
Been out of the loop by choice the last 10 days or so while on a road trip in California with my sisters. I’m trying to catch up on all things David and I have missed quite a lot!
I must say I am loving David’s album more & more. Every song so far has been so above & beyond what I had imagined. After all, David did say the songs would reflect him & how he views himself & we all know he thinks he’s dorky & awkward. The songs so far have been muy excellente! It’s going to be very hard to pick a favorite song from the album.
Oh, & don’t you just love David’s “morning voice” on the radio interview in Memphis Q96.1? So husky & smooth. 😀
{{{{SF}}}} A road trip to California with your sisters? Now that sounds like a movie in the making! lol (say hi to your sis, T., btw!)
Your comment reminded me of something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. David does keep saying the album is more “him” and yes, he does see himself as dorky and awkward (which, come on, he is… but we wouldn’t want him to change a thing) … and I don’t quite know how to put this, but that celebration of being happy in your own skin and not changing “just for society” and being true to yourself, to me, is just as powerful and important theme to this album than the hopeful, “things are gonna get better” theme he’s got going on there. I’m pretty sure you guys know what I mean. lol
How did we miss this “Behind the Scenes at Capitol Fourth” vid with David & Lupe touring the White House. So cool!
TOfan, you are a hoot… love Ricky Archuletta’s
(2 t’s, no less) jr interns’ To-Do-List!
StR – gads, love it too! His voice just sounds amazing and his diction or emphasis or something on this album has this different quality, idk what it is …but love it. Maybe it’s just ownership. There is also a much less produced sound, more voice up front and center!
Allaccess Elevator, sounds great! Love all the layers of his voice! I love my earbuds!
“ownership” yes! By jove, I think you’ve got it, emme! And you’re right, love the “less-produced sound, more voice front and center”!!!!
TOfan – “I don’t quite know how to put this, but that celebration of being happy in your own skin and not changing “just for society” and being true to yourself, to me, is just as powerful and important theme to this album than the hopeful, “things are gonna get better” theme he’s got going on there. I’m pretty sure you guys know what I mean.”
I know exactly what you mean! And I absolutely LOVE that theme too and I’m so happy it is coming through in his songs. IICOB really had that going on which is probably why I love that song so much <333
Also – awesome vid from the white house! Looks like he had an awesome time.
TOfan
I sure hope you are working on a movie script for David’s life story. You have a wild imagination, girlfriend! I just loved this article.
refnaf
LOL! GMTA! I do love my wine box. 😉
Abrra
TOfan, you have no idea. Riu Riu Chiu now gives me nightmares.
You know it is so the other side of cool to talk about someone behind their back!
Yes…I staring straight at you Ms. Lorna and Birthday girl TOfan
Haha, have I not said this to your face??!! It’s only fair to give our riding guests a heads up.
LOLOLOL you guys! *noogies*
Tofan…hahahahaha
You crack me up!!!! You so witty! I actually recognized every event you listed…lol
I’m loving SBL, E, StR, TAGG, PandA, and TOSOD. One song at a time David is showing us his personality and so far it rocks!
Happy Bday to Snowangelz!!!
Happy Birthday Snow Angelz ♥♥♥
Happy Birthday Snow Angelz!!!
Happy bday SnowAngelz!
With more pix posted at Q107.5, I re-uploaded the looooooong Memphis interview cos 1M & one fierce solo pix of David just won’t be enough, right? hehe
Thanks for the wishes, djafan, Janey, af4L & JR!!!
And here’s another cool video from Katie Moore, who did the “Star Spangled” vid from the White House up thread … this one’s shot at the Memphis Delta Fair (abanana, there’s a shot near the end just for you!):
http://vimeo.com/14953620
Happy Birthday SnowAngelz! 🙂
JR…thank you for the video of the Q107.5 interview, had to listen a few more times. David’s Cher impersonation, lol….love listening to that, haha. What a great guy that boy is!
Oh my, more soulfulness from David. Stomping The Roses, another great! This one sounds somewhat different for David and I am loving the sound of it, a slightly new ‘vibe’ in this one (it seems to me). David creates his own sound and his own genre (and it ain’t dork pop or dork rock)!
Oh and meant to say the “dorkiness” David talks about in his personality is most definitely the loveable kind and certainly doesn’t translate to his music. His music can be fun, quirky, yes…but we all know how he transforms into this almost non-earthly type artist who sounds like he has been doing this for centuries and has perfected the art like no one else quite has yet. This album will be no exception!
lol TOfan this was hilarious! loved it! 😀
has anyone watched part 2 of the song previews?!! I haven’t because it’s taking forever to load but from what I’ve been reading apparently Stomping The Roses is a song David wrote with BRYCE AVARY!! (The Rocket Summer). and I just feel like shouting it everywhere haha because TRS is one of my absolute favourite artists from even before I knew David. Sooo 2 favourite artists writing together. It doesn’t get better than that.
Happy bday TOFan!
Some DeltaFair BTS
And the long lost BTS of Capitol4th!
Both vids were originally posted by Ms. Moore @ vimeo
What is it about these BTS vids that gets me emotional??? I guess just seeing the day through his eyes, seeing him experience all the things his music career has brought, ***sniff***
(((hugs)))
Thanks so much JR for getting vids to us 🙂
Meeeeeeeeeee too Refnaf! I felt all warm and fuzzy seeing him experiencing all these things. That is probably the mother in us?
Dear David,
As long as your happy
I am.
JR
and that should be you’re — JR, duh!
I get emotional too! Dunno why though. Like you said, we get to view things through David’s eyes; the eyes of a young boy, treating everything he sees as a miracle.
YT version PART 2 of David’s Album Preview
Gaaaaaaaaaaah! loving Stomping The Roses!
peppertara,
love this, “we all know how he transforms into this almost non-earthly type artist who sounds like he has been doing this for centuries and has perfected the art like no one else quite has yet.” Dork Rock FTW!!!! 😆
ai lyn,
try JR4DA’s youTube of David’s Part 2 vid above (easier to load). I haven’t heard much of The Rocket Summer but I’ll check them out (might distract me from not listening to the snippets!)
refnaf, I love Katie Moore’s vids too… I’ve always hoped that someone has been recording behind-the-scenes footage of D’s tours, writing & recording sessions etc. for a future “David Archuleta: The Early Years” documentary. I don’t think Katie’s doing that, but love her style & hope she does more!!!
DARN IT! I fail. Where are my manners?!?!
Hyvää syntymäpäivää Snowangelzz!! ❤ I, for one, am gonna stick around to celebrate many birthdays to come with you ❤
ai lyn, first time I heard David talk about Bryce was so excited and wondered how long it would be before they would collaborate. Excited that it was this soon, and what a great song!
Was listening to the radio interview the morning after the Delta Fair. The question about AI and the outcome manipulation, what with several former AI contestants now being pretty vocal about it.
Don’t think David will ever say much about it, partly because of his genuine gratefulness for the opportunities it gave him, and probably as much or more so, because he would never say anything that would minimize Cook’s victory. While everyone is waiting for him to jump on the band wagon and get his shot at vindication, he won’t do it, he just continues to support the show and Cook, classy guy.
Emmegirl,
I relistened to that interview too and you’re so right … even when Alexis Grace was chiming in and saying she agreed with Lambert’s comment about the producers manipulating the A.I. outcome (which I don’t disagree with btw), David held firm in not joining in on the A.I.-bashing. He lives by a code of honour that continues to astound me.
emmegirl – I agree completely with what you said: “… and probably as much or more so, because he would never say anything that would minimize Cook’s victory.” Pretty sure he will not jump onto that band wagon.
Also, snarkies posted the transcript from the stomping the roses sneak peek vid (which was good because I hadn’t watched it, being too scared that I would miss the muting like last time. Hahaha
http://www.snarkyarchies.com/2010/09/tosod-part-2-transcript.html
I posted my version of the script for the Elevator music video over at Soul David. Here it is! PG-13 people.
I’m the leading lady. I’ve travelled all the way from Finland to see David in concert. I’m in the hotel lobby, dragging my luggage to the elevator. I get in and the doors begin to shut, when a beautiful hand with long fingers stops them. David steps inside and sees me standing in the corner. He greets me with a joyful “HI!” and I can’t say a word being gobsmacked.
“Hey… are you okay?” he asks, but I remain silent. David starts to get worried. “Is something wrong? Why won’t you say anything?” he keeps asking while I try to come up with something, anything, even a sound! “Well… maybe this’ll get you talking” he says and starts taking his shirt off. I watch him open-mouthed when the vision in front of me starts to blur and suddenly all I see is black.
I wake up to David giving me mouth to mouth, so I pretend to be unconcious for a while. I flutter my eyes open seducingly and David smiles at me, saying “Thank goodness you’re alive! Listen, let’s go to my hotel room so you can lay down”. The elevator doors open and David leads me to his suite. The door closes behind us but opens one last time as David hangs a “Do not disturb” sign on the doorknob.
The friggin’ end.
Hahaha embe ❤
"I wake up to David giving me mouth to mouth, so I pretend to be unconcious for a while." goor strategy 😛
Although this seems like the most unlikely thing ever, you can always hope! 😀
Oh you dream crusher you.
❤
Embe, how did you get your script filmed so quickly?? 😆
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGLHU7S8JgU&
Oh no!!! Why did you put ideas (well, more of them) in my head?!?!
Do you really want me to write that fanfic? Huh? HUH?
Love the list LOL lol and lol, and BTW elevator is up for pick it or kick it @ disney…….
http://radio.disney.go.com/music/music-mailbag.html
thanks, Lisa, I voted!!!
lololololol nooooo embe don’t do it!!!! 🙂
TOfan keeps pushing me over the edge!
TOfan — Oh my, who knew a to-do list could be so brilliant and excruciatingly hilarious. There’s only one other lady who can make me laugh until the tears start and that’s Betty White. hmmm, I might have to re-think that and add embe.
Thanks so much for the fun!
Oh gosh, thank you! That is like the best compliment ever ❤
wow, Steno, I LOVE Betty, what a lovely compliment, thank you!!!
Here’s a Katie Couric behind-the-scenes vid from SU2C … David comes on at about 2:32:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6870519n
(Thanks 4 tweeting, Pastel!)
Lots of lovely, interesting, sweet, funny and heartfelt posts here, thanks for the entertainment and the smiles everyone.
Guess another congrats goes out to David and his lovely, artistic SBL video. Reached over 3 Million views now and in less than 6 wks. Yay for David and SBL.
:clap:
Well, I tried to a little applause sign, that didn’t work but you get the idea. Ha.
BTS SU2C, David @ mar 2:55
Breaking news!!!
Don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but I just read on Twitter that the Japanese release of TOSOD (on Nov. 23, via Amazon) could include 1 as-yet-unnamed bonus track.
That’s how we got Save the Day last time! Yay for a possible extra song!!!!
…and this great news from @kimak:
GUYS!!! they’re going to premiere….. @DavidArchie’s ELEVATOR…. on Radio Disney….. Staurday at 2pm ET!!!
… and this is the photographer who’ll be taking pics at David’s Utah “Patio Party” on Monday (he just tweeted about it):
http://www.justinclaypoolphotography.com/Music
🙂
So this is where I was hanging yesterday
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Sagrada_Familia.html
Pretty flippin’ awesome, AND this is David related>There is nothing better than listening to Ave Marie, Silent Night, O Holy night and the rest of CFTH in a place like that… very moving, David’s voice in special places…. amazed> that’s me.
Love the newsflash TOfan, eeep every song counts!!!!
***clap*** I hear you peppertara!! +3mil views!!
Yay!!
So why did RD not play SBL??? I’m stumped and right now I don’t even care. Oct. 05 is coming (selfish fan)
ref – what a fantastic church…wowza…and listening to those beautiful songs while viewing such art…how wonderful!
Switching gears – Here is a quirky picture – what a fun & funny expression – lololololz
I LOVE the work of Antoni Gaudí. La Sagrada Familia is such a hauntingly beautiful place, and has an eerie feeling to it, especially since Gaudí died before it was finished and it’s still under construction.
Refnaf – that looks AMAZING!!!! It would be incredible listening to those songs in there. (And a very valid excuse to listen to Christmas carols in September). Hope you’re having a great time in Spain (are you still there? I am getting this info from yesterday’s twitter. Haha)
Possible new song FTW 🙂
TOfan this is brilliantly funny. Thanks for the LOLZ!
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I just added Part 2 of David answering his fan phone messages to the Must See sidebar on the right … oh my heck, he “writes” and sings a song on the spot for the two girls in the message?????????????
I’m surprised I can even hit these keys ‘cuz I’m sitting here stupified by his magnificence……. *tilt*
And have we seen this Backstage Q102 interview before?
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=465392633124&ref=mf
New post/thread …
😯