According to Brian Mansfield at USA Today, Danny Gokey met with a couple of record labels in Nashville on Tuesday, including Sony Nashville, home to Kellie Pickler and Carrie Underwood.
Danny twittered about his trip to Nashville early this week and actually let the cat out of the bag about his upcoming meetings with 19R and Sony a couple of weeks ago.
In a recent radio interview with Milwaukee’s 101 QLF, Danny said, “Ideally, I would like to do my own little fusion of R&B and Latin… but I would be open to do modern-soul country.” Danny stressed that he would not be making a contemporary Christian album at this point in his career.
“I’m planning on writing a lot for my album,” Danny says, “I’ve already started a few things.”
Is a signing announcement for Danny coming soon? I’ll be watching for it…
Danny is the Joe The Plumber of the music industry.
Best quote of the night.
Again, I have to wonder if people actually watched the past seasons if they didn’t know that Bucky was country and Carrie was country. Carrie was always country, from day one. She never wavered, she never wondered what her “identity” was. Of course she had to sing different genres each week, but she was always country, the judges knew it, the audience knew it, there was no mystery or ambiguity about it. It was always known that she would put out country music when it was over. She was never an empty vessel, never. Just like Allison always knew she was a rocker, Carrie was always a country singer.
Wow, I am so late to this party. I’ll keep it brief:
1. I think Danny is a good-hearted, sincere guy.
2. I think Danny has a great voice.
3. I think Danny’s great voice is buried under a lot of bad habits picked up from years of singing in a worship-singer-on-stage style.
4. That said, he could still get a hit if he’s matched with just the right song.
5. But he has a long way to go before he can sustain a high level career IMO. He just doesn’t know how to use his voice.
6. He also seems to lack the savvy needed to make the most of this short window of opportunity.
7. Good luck to him.
“How can a so called singer produce decent music if they don’t know anything about it. This is art we’re talking about, not some factory assembly line producing generic one hot hit wonders. Must we cheapen all aspects of our culture to the value of dollar?!”
This is exactly what I fear about Adam’s Music. And though Danny hasn’t the best personality in the world, it is hard to deny that he may produce songs of a bit more quality and meaning behind them.
I also Agree that he doesn’t have more marketability than Anoop and more Matt Giraud (whom I was sure would be the next signed).
Oh well…Wish the best to Danny and we will see…
There are 182 comments on Danny’s possible record deal. For a guy who many online keep saying they want to go away, he sure seems to have a lot of interest and having almost 75,000 followers on twitter ain’t bad either.
Check out Danny’s latest tweet with pic of the Top 4.
http://yfrog.com/0m36jmj check this
^^ A remarkably keen observation.
LOL at Danny twittering so much info… typical.
Anyway, if he was to be signed, why is it taking so long? It’s been almost a month (or more than?) since we heard of Kradison’s deals, why is Danny’s deal taking so long to finish? Hmmm.
Honestly, I just want him to be signed to some small Christian label, release songs exclusively available to his church and foundation so we won’t ever have to hear from him again.
what’s the rush for Danny to sign? It’s not as if he’s in competition with Kris, Adam, or Allison to be the first one to release an album since his fanbase is most likely a different niche.
I’d be more worried if I was one of those three. No wonder they’re madly slapping songs together with songwriters.
Was there a question about whether or not Bucky Covington was country on the show? I didn’t watch that season, but my hubby who knows quite a bit about country (brother in Nashville pretty much in the country scene), told me recently that Bucky was OMG country, with no doubt about it.
Who are these professional negotiators, and for what business reason would they be appalled? I have negotiated many business deals. At times, such as with the acquisition of a competitor, it’s very important that the discussions are not publicly revealed. In other cases, people are quite open about saying that a potential collaberation is under discussion.
In this case, what is shocking about Danny “revealing” that he is in discussions or that other people have expressed interest? Doesn’t the organization that he has mentioned meeting with have an exclusive on him for a period of time? What in the hell would be shocking about them discussing it together? And what harm is there in saying that others have expressed interest? None. If it doesn’t work out, then Danny says that they didn’t come to an agreement. It happens all the time. BFD.
I think that this has about as much weight as the one where Danny cruelly handed Adam a humiliating photo to sign because he hates him and wanted to embarrass him, except, oh yeah, the photo was of Adam in costume for a role that I believe he was quite proud of. And these two guys like each other and express friendship for each other, which is of course quite inconvenient.
Yikes, I just read my post above and I have a typo and it won’t let me edit it, but “collaberation” should of course be collaboration. Oh I just hate it when that happens!
Truthfully, I don’t find that hard to deny at all.
Aside from the huge talent gap, to me, Adam has more life experience and substance to draw from than Danny. And the quality of his work so far eclipses Danny’s. As for meaning, we have BoW, ToMT, MW, IICHY, FG, One, Cryin’, ACIGC and even NB as examples, as well as the many, many awesome pre-Idol songs he chose to cover. All in all, for me, for you, for me, not hard at all.
Mileage…
I respectfully disagree. I am sure that there is a very heartfelt feeling in the Danny fan camp that his songs will come from the heart because of his life experiences. But in order, IMHO, for that feeling to manifest itself in song the singer must be able to emote that feeling not just talk about it. As has been referred to before, Danny wants to inspire through his words but he doesn’t know how to show it without talking about it. Real emotion is in body language and the eyes and the way someone breaths. And Danny doesn’t seem to know how to use his body. And if a singer doesn’t use all of himself to sing then the song is only about the voice and nothing more and it falls flat and doesn’t stir the soul of the listener.
I have listened to enough music in my life that I know when the songs are heartfelt. I know when someone “touches” me with their voice. Oftentimes I don’t even hear the words just the emotion. That is a singer that is meaningful.
There may be 182 comments here, but there are quite a few from the same people. I don’t think the comments here or the amount of people following him on twitter will have much to do with his album sales.
I think we all just have to wait and see how well Danny will do. I personally don’t think he is all that great and never liked him as a performer, but he does have some fans. I don’t think the judges did Danny any favors by over praising him. This is one of the reasons why so many people dislike him. It’s not just people on the internet that don’t like his music style. I know many people that don’t follow AI on the internet and they never got Danny. I’ve actually haven’t met a person that likes Danny other than here on the internet.
I just have to say that just because Danny needs more training and experience with his performance skills, does not mean his singing is not heartfelt.
The reason Danny is popular and was a frontrunner was because he DOES sing from the heart and the voting public were touched.
So he does need some experience, but he is getting that.
And to tell the truth, sometimes these so called “performing skills”(movements,gestures,facial expressions), are just being acted out to look good and it is just performing.
Sometimes it is more phony than anything.
To me a heartfelt vocal is when the singer loses themselves in a song and lets go and sings from the heart, just not even caring what they look like in the emotion of it.
That is Danny. And why he has plenty of fans that see it and appreciate him.
I think a lot of singers are just performing and too conscious of their looks more than being into the song and the meaning. They “do” all the right movements and thats just not real imo.
Danny definitely can make someone feel the music that he is singing but that would really depend on who you are and your own life experiences.
And are you feeling the music or just listening to the words of the song?
No, he’s not going to connect with everyone but it s doubful that any of the top three does.
“Aside from the huge talent gap, to me, Adam has more life experience and substance to draw from than Danny. And the quality of his work so far eclipses Danny’s. As for meaning, we have BoW, ToMT, MW, IICHY, FG, One, Cryin’, ACIGC and even NB as examples, as well as the many, many awesome pre-Idol songs he chose to cover. All in all, for me, for you, for me, not hard at all.
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Yes that is the music Adam has done on the show, but it is not, unfortunately, what he describes his post-idol music to be (and it is the music we will recieve after the show that I was referring to).
But it is pretty obvious that while I found it very difficult to enjoy Adam on the show, he is, FOR NOW, the break-out star of season 8 though he did not win.
We will see…
I remember him doing both. But southern rock is really a genre pretty close to country. It morphs into country quite easily, especially as country gets more rock-y.
TWI, I agree with you 100% on your post. I for one will support Danny no matter But I’d like to see him have an eclectic mix on his album.
Wow. Knock off the fan-war shit peeps. Just banned a couple of posters! Yay me!
Keep what’s left of this post FOCUSED ON THE SUBJECT.
If fans are dissing your favorite the WRONG ANSWER is to bait them. Leave fans of other Idols OUT OF THE DISCUSSION.
A couple of very chatty posters here are close to being put in moderation.