New Video Blog from David Cook!
David Cook’s new Video blog has just been posted. He recorded it right before he took the stage for the Tonight Show concert series. About the upcoming record, he says, “we’ve knocked out about 7 songs already.”
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Count me as someone who loves this video – I’m glad that David doesn’t feel he has to have hair, make-up, lighting, and professional cameramen in order to talk to us. I like the natural intimate quality and I’m happy for the tidbits of information.
I thought it was given that American Idol is all about making a quick buck. :p
Ditto on that. I think it’s really nice that technology allows these guys to communicate so quickly with their fans. With their schedules the way they are, I also think it’s quite lovely that they take the time out to do it.
Aww, I like this video with the bad lighting and camera work better than the “relationship” one. I have no clue what “knocked out” means in this context, but I pretty sure it doesn’t mean “recorded 7 songs, including rejects from all former Idol albums and a Diane Warren ballad. Only 3 tracks to go! Album out July 4th! Go buy 7 copies! Cougars 4 Cook!”
I think it could mean he has a good start on the music and lyrics for 7 new songs, or has a total of 7 songs under serious consideration for the album, which might include songs from his previous work. If he really wrote/co-wrote 7 new songs since May 21 even with all his ongoing appearances and interviews, I’m impressed. He does make it sound like he’s pretty intimately involved in the writing process. (Would he say “we’re in the writing process” if he is just listening to submitted songs from random songwriters?) I’m looking forward to seeing how many writes/co-writes he ends up with, if only because he seems to be a fairly prolific writer himself and he’s not too shabby at it.
Cheese. Obviously, those that question the power of the cougar don’t know that he was in the monthly newsletter promising to sleep with all of us in turn if we bought 20 CDs. Why should we doubt him? I’ve already got my outfit picked out. Two words: Be. Dazzler.
Once I got used to the angle I enjoyed this short video- more intimate in feel than the first one. So glad he’s continuing his “relationship” with us LOL
I read somewhere that in the last few weeks of the show he was coming in first in votes, so the producers of course knew he would be making an album…even if he’s come in second he’s be making this album so I’m sure things have been in the works for some time. He also has a wealth of material to choose from.
Being a huge lover of AH, I am hoping that there are songs from that mysterious second solo album he was putting together.
7 songs eh? Does that mean 3 or 5 more? One of the songs most likely will be TOML. Maybe ABMB? Here’s hoping! ABMB would make a great first summer single while we wait for more of his own material from the album. Nothing wrong with a popular cover song which will help sell the album when it comes out.
Ugh. Ignore the pot stirring please! Read the post and move on. FYI: Folks who drop in to a thread just to bait and start fan wars, eventually get banned. The Cougar bullshit is generalizing about fanbases and is the worst kind of baiting. Stop it.
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But I have some Cookie to look forward to this evening
Since we’re having this heart to heart David, I felt cheated out of an *All I Really Need Is You* iTunes download. Color me bummed. So two words for ya David: Bonus Track.
Love the vid, thanks for being so down to earth! Will buy one kick butt cd, cause I know that is what you’re putting out eh? That is all….
Great to hear that his album is coming along nicely. I just hope his voice holds up with the gruelling schedule he has in store.
Grab the world with open arms Cookie but rest, rest, REST…
I second this.
A “cougar ” not a wild animal living in parts of CA but a refference to women that are not considered teens. Things I learn here and I thought it was a good animal mascot.
So does that mean that when applying for an AARP magazine this statement will come with it? “Congradulation you are now eligible to buy A DC cd” Yippee! Well I also see some seniors extra money for them or a troubling aspect for them which would be illegal selling of DC cds to the underaged.(maybe below 50)
This is a joke about he term cougar………
Seriously it was a good youtube .
This is the one I want to see also. I’d rather this be included than ABMB – even though I like ABMB.
Make that Bonus Tracks:
“All I Really Need is You”
“Baba O’Riley”
“Yo Face”
In that order. No need to include Skittles.
Have to add my vote for the homemade video from the laptop à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’ more genuine and spontaneous.
Great video clip, thanks for posting it, MJ.
Purely speculation on my part, but I also took knocked back to mean written. Writing 7 songs isn’t all that much at this point if, in addition to anything he may have written or co-written since the win, they’ve also used (or re-worked) any of the material from AH, that mysterious second album Cookie was supposed to record pre-Idol, or if they’ve used any of the songs he’s mentioned writing while still on AI. I also would love if he co-wrote some songs during the Idol tour with Michael or some of the other contestants.
I am looking forward to his album. I think he has a good ear for music and arrangements that work for him and judging by AH I think he writes well.
OT, but what does YMMV mean? I’ve seen it on here before but can’t figure it out.
Love the new vlog, HUGE DC fan, but I must say, Cookie is starting to look a little rough around the edges again, and I am a little worried. Apparently, the stylists that fixed him up on AI are no longer in the picture. Boo.
I’m up for All I Really Need Is You. I loved his performance of the face song, but it’s a freaking boring song and he did all he could with it in 1 1/2 minutes.
I’m really curious to see how his album turns out. So much of what he did on AI that got the most praise was absolutely nothing like I’d heard on any of his previous albums. It should be interesting to see how he deals with what he wants to do versus what people expect him to do.
YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary, which means “your opinion may differ”….
I took it to be 7 written and/or under consideration for the album given that we know they are looking at some of his songs from AH and his unreleased album. As for his excitement level, it was just his blood sugar crashing from the Taste The Rainbow song overload
Aha. Thanks Gwendolyn!
Why stop at a bonus track? I really want a bonus EP, featuring:
1. Hello
2. All I Really Need Is You
3. Baba O’Reily
4. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
5. The World I Know
If only those could be made available as studio versions… Hot damn, we’d have 5 more #1s on iTunes.
Also – was it ever revealed who chose which song got a studio version? I’m curious as to the factors that were considered.
I have always believed that All I Really Need is You didn’t get the studio version because they were saving it for future commercial release. It is much stronger than I’m Alive which got the studio treatment. I am holding on to that belief – because I want to see the full studio treatment of it.
I took it to mean that 7 songs that David recently worked on have been added to the pool from which eventually about 20 will be recorded and 10-13 chosen for the final album
Sooo…they are still nowhere close to done. I do hope some of these are from that AH followup album!
There’s always that worry about what expectations people will have based on the *covers of songs from limited themes* they are forced to do on the show. In this respect I think it’s good David tried to stick to his own style as much as possible…
***Hope someone somewhere in high power is reading this love for all the studio’s we were cheated out of. Someone on the other side of that Magic Rainbow***
I second this. As long as Hello & Yo Face is right in there with All I Really Need Is You. One of my favorites studio’s of DC’s besides my MOTN, is Little Sparrow, & it did not really get the iTune love it deserved. It’s simply amazing. Killer. Ending.
In TOML which I have nicked *Lucky Charms*, we have David singing about Magic Rainbows.
In Little Sparrow he sings, *I would flutter all around you, On my little sparrow wings*.
Now I have a mental pic of David as a sparrow fluttering his *wittle* wings around that magic rainbow, lmao.
Embrace the cheese David, you do it so well it’s no longer cheese! heh.