The only thing I have to say is to quote JR:

“he’s young enuff to be my son, he is young enuff to be my son….

~marlie7

Join us in watching the countdown to #1!  Last night around midnight Something ‘Bout Love was released on iTunes and at 1:30 AM was tracking at #117 on the iTunes Pop Chart.  15 minutes later, it was tracking at #75. Overnight the song continued to rise and at this writing sitting at #44 on the Pop chart, and broke the #100 level on the Overall Music chart to place #99 at 8:30 AM.

Keep watching and post results below – when David reaches #1, let’s party!

…from pop prince to soul diva to Texas two-step, all wrapped up neatly and smart in one summery bubble that should bounce awfully easily out of cars and convenience stores all summer long.

Read the entire Rascal review here.

Click to listen (but go buy!):

Something ‘Bout Love

From www.davidarchuleta.com:

Hey Everyone,

We’d like to announce a date change on the release of David’s new single. It will now be available everywhere on July 20th, not the 13th. The change was made because David wants to give his fans WAY more than just a single, and needed an extra week to do it, but trust us it will be worth it.

On July 20th, right here on the site, you will be able to pre-order David’s brand new, upcoming album! When you pre-order you’ll be able to receive “Somethin ‘Bout Love” as an instant download, but that’s not all. Also on the 20th, you’ll be able to pre-order a very special fan edition of David’s new album! We’ll give you all the details on what it is soon!

So, instead of just a single, you’ll be getting the whole package! Stay tuned for the big day, and in the meantime, check out the single artwork for “Somethin’ Bout Love” right here!

And the photo on the single – good lord, they finally got it right! More than right – it’s “Dreamy David”.  Lovely!

~marlie

Fan groups all over ArchuWorld are banding together on June 1 for a Twitter Trending Party…

“As we (David Archuleta fans) already know, June 1 is the official release of his book. How about we make it extra special for him and make it trend on twitter? By making it trend, it would also help with his sales. Because not really everyone is aware that he has a book coming out.”

Add #ChordsofStrength to your tweets!

I’ve had one of those evenings when I didn’t feel like working. And so I took a walk through my video library. I have no wisdom to impart, no analysis to provide. I just want to share these videos that are in my all-time favorites list.

I want to hear David sing. I want to watch David move around the stage and hunker down. I want the new CD and a tour so baaaaddddddddd.

Enjoy!

Touch My Hand and Waiting for Yesterday, Leicester, UK – McFly Tour

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWBZP7V44E

Stand By Me – Manila, May 16, 2009 Concert with David Cook

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvVNuLEw3t8

My Hands – Salt Lake City – March 27, 2009

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTPHlG08MZI

Don’t Let Go  - Greensboro, NC, July 29, 2009

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEMqNqWFS6U

Apologize – Las Vegas, NV, July 18, 2009  

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa0HDoJpPZc

Zero Gravity – Sunrise, Florida, August 1, 2009.  He uses every inch of that stage.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rcRYx7D8s

Contigo en la distancia at the 2009 ALMA awards

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6FsfvxyyT8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBmkVDgBsFc

To be perfectly honest, we never realized we had an agenda. But after so many sensible, rational fans pointed out with such convincing evidence how obvious our agenda really is, we had to be honest with ourselves and say, “Hey! You know what, guys? We really do have an agenda — a gay agenda!”

Self awareness can be so cleansing. So, now that we have figured out who we truly are, we thought it was time to share with the world just exactly what the TDC Gay Agenda actually is. We hope this will clear up any remaining questions or misconceptions about us, and help put things into perspective.

The TDC Gay Agenda

Let it be known that

• Henceforth and for all time in all regions, all gay fans of David Archuleta shall be afforded priority seating at all concert venues, and preferred access to tickets and special events shall be supplied on a gay first-come gay first-serve basis.

• Henceforth and for all time in all regions, all stylists, costume designers and hairdressers will be required to evolve the David Archuleta stage persona into that which resembles a glam-rock, guyliner wearing, Adam Lambert clone (because, as so many have so often observed, we don’t really like David Archuleta the way he already is, anyway).

• Henceforth and for all time in all regions, all lyrics in all David Archuleta songs shall be gender-neutral, implying neither specifically heterosexual or homosexual relationships. When he sings in French, David shall use neither “le” or “la” to describe inanimate objects, so as not suggest a gender preference for things like flowers or food processors.

• Henceforth and for all time in all regions, all female reveries about David Archuleta shall be confined to fantasies involving David not as a boyfriend or a husband, but as the proverbial gay best friend. TDC will supply links to reruns of the television sitcom “Will & Grace” for any females who are unfamiliar with the territory. Furthermore, any late-night online chats held in private for the purposes of salacious fantasizing about David’s physical attributes will be required to include an equal number of young, single gay men as there are mature, married women.

• Finally, and most importantly, let it be known and understood throughout the land that we hereby acknowledge as accurate the oft-proposed observation that we desperately, passionately want David to be gay. We know that wanting him to be gay will have a significant influence on his being gay, and, really: Why shouldn’t we want David to be discriminated against? To never be able to get married? To lose the support of his family and his church? Yes, those are the things we wish for David, beyond everything else.

– davidfanLiz, jackryan4da, ronaldsf, Marlie7, and Ras–oh, ha ha, there we go again, failing to acknowledge what the arbiters of the fan community have already observed: that none of the TDC team members have any real independence or voice of their own. They’re all hypnotized by Rascal! Why bother listing their names at all? Relax and look deeply… deeply into my agenda…

We were working with our tech support for a significant period of time early in the week and had several server crashes. It appears that we are stable now.

If you are still unable to login, please let me know via the contact page and I will check your account and be sure you have access.   Thank you!

~marlie

David was spotted last night at Club 57 in Manhattan, located at a venue called Providence, currently the city’s hottest, wildest Saturday night party for the men-who-love-men crowd (pics from a recent night there above). According to Time Out New York, where the opening of the club night was reviewed late last year:

All sorts of boys were streaming into Brandon Voss and Tony Fornabaio’s newish midtown adventure on Saturday night—twinkie, trendy, trannie, circuity, Sam Champion—to sample the different levels of clubby fun at Providence. DJ Mike Cruz worked it for the main floor with joyful, energetic beats from his chandelier-level perch, while DJ Lina (sexy in a royal-blue dress) got the nearby lounge moving with a soulful set. And a towering, space-age-clad Epiphany popped onstage down in the Triumph Room to break up a jammin’ DJ Xavier set that had the floor jam-packed from midnight on. Oh, and did we mention how hot the boys were?

So, was David bumping and grinding with some steamy Dominican muscle man? Hardly. David was there with his friend Charice, who performed a dance remix of her current hit single, “Pyramid” at the coveted 1:30 a.m. spot. Reportedly, however, Charice and her entourage, which included David and his old band mate Eli, did do something terribly scandalous after the performance: They went to a local Pinkberry for ice cream.

The ground is certainly shifting under Archuworld, what with David displaying some real independence, and making choices that, while hardly questionable (it would be far more questionable for a pop performer who is serious about their career to not become familiar with the gay club scene), are nevertheless choices that would have been virtually unthinkable a year ago. And although I expect all kinds of hand-wringing from certain factions of the fan community at this news, I think it all ultimately amounts to a big “so what,” other than the fact that it is yet another indication of David’s new-found liberation and maturity. And that can only be good.

Here’s the Charice performance (introduced by a platinum blond drag queen).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0LwEYjj9xM

A WONDER WALL OF STARS…

Here is David at his best – reaching out to those universal connections of compassion and love.

Joshua served as the medium for each of us to be there, to be close to David, to share an intimate moment, to be supported by David, to hunker down, to unfurl our wings and fly!!!

Thank you David for all that you do.

~ davidfanLIZ