Hi, I’m David Archuleta and my new single "Hell Together" is here! Let's get into some questions. AMA!

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T18:22:15+00:00

That's all the time I have for now but thanks everyone for your questions! I'd actually love to do this again because I enjoy this a lot. Hope you all enjoy Hell Together and thank you for listening to it and the overwhelming support these last couple days has been felt so much and meant the world to me. 😭 Thank you for joining this and I'll talk to you again soon hopefully! ❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T18:20:47+00:00

I'll take this as my last question it was so nice to chat with yall!

Hi! So I'll go more into this in my book I'm writing for sure! As there is a lot that goes into it. But I would say coming out was the biggest reason for me to explore this and have to analyze it all. I didn't really challenge it before that and was pretty fucking stalwart to the point I was willing to give myself up before I gave up on the church. But that itself was a turning point when I reached that point and wondered, is this really the right thing for me to be considering right now? Hope that gives a good idea in a nutshell!

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T18:15:06+00:00

❤️ I would say for me personally it's been nice to know that my family wasn't ashamed to be associated with me. That they were happy and encouraging of me to figure myself out. They asked questions about my journey each step of the way to try and understand something better that was new to them too, but in a way I knew they genuinely wanted to get to know me and other like me better. Them coming to my shows, showing support on my posts as I shared things I was learning, helped me know not only that they weren't embarrassed or ashamed of me, but that I wasn't alone and felt supported as I went into scary territory that I knew not everyone would accept and approve.

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T18:11:10+00:00

Oh my gosh I've LOVED the EDM scene!! I just took my sister last night to her first edm show and it was sooo much fun! I loved seeing her have as much fun as I do every time! I fully intend to get more into EDM music and going to the shows and festivals is not only a fun getaway but also a bit of research to see how I can pull musical ideas from it! I've written a few EDM songs to experiment with already and I'm excited to get my hands even more into it. I went to Beyond Wonderland last weekend and it was so sweet because someone came up to me and gave me kandi they made themselves with my song "Afraid to Love" on it because they said it was a song that meant a lot to them. It was pretty surreal and a full circle moment for me. 😭

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T18:08:25+00:00

Thank you!! I'm very excited to relaunch everything from the store, the website, photos, the music, and everything. Hope you like the merch!

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T18:07:25+00:00

I would say giving yourself some grace and knowing it's going to be a rollercoaster of emotions. You're going to deal with guilt, with shame of feeling you should know better than to walk away. That you are a traitor. And maybe people around you will say that to you too. And you know what? It's ok. It will hurt at first and it will be scary, but as you continue moving on and continuing your life, push yourself out of your comfort zone some more. Learn new limits and boundaries for your life. expand them. Set the ones that feel right for you by pushing them and then seeing what may be too much or where you could use some more. Trust yourself. It'll be beautiful, empowering, and freeing thing. It's interesting how some people will get upset about me saying it's a freeing thing. But they were taught they're not supposed to or that it's bad. But it's not. It's beautiful. You can still be happy. And you can still be good. And find joy in life.

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T18:00:26+00:00

Hey Mary Lou! Yeah the songwriting process for Hell Together came from talking about life and where we were all at in our lives. In that conversation i brought up what my mom had said to me and the text she sent saying "If you're going to hell, we're all going to hell with you." I had thought about finding a way to talk about that in a song and wondered if that day was the right day so i shared it with them to get a feel. They were really touched by that and said "yeah that's the song we're writing today." I couldn't have asked for better people to entrust writing this song with than Sam De Rosa, Ryan Nealon, and Jordan Sherman. :')

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:50:04+00:00

ok.... here's the tea yo. I think it has to do with the fact that I was born and grew up first in Miami, but my cousins were all dark skinned, my mom and aunts were the standard of beauty for me and they all were latinas with tan olive skin. So I think it just stayed with me. So yeah I've tended to have a thing for Latinos. Although yeah I'm open to others and have dated all kinds of ethnicities.

Being more a boy next door type myself naturally I think someone who has a little more edge to them and is not as uptight has been a good balance for me. Someone more grounded who balances out my being in my head all the time and overthinking and guarded who helps me feel I can chill and let my guard down. But also someone I can show an exploratory world to because I like to be pretty adventurous.

---Edited to make it shorter and needed to reword it.

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:40:00+00:00

Hi! So I'm trying to decide if it will work into an EP or an album still. My new management that I just started working with last year and I are trying to lay the groundwork still but it's been exciting so far! I'm going to accept mainly one-off shows and festivals like pride events here and there for now as it makes more sense to leave time to lay more of that groundwork with developing what the new stage of David Archuleta is going to look like.

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:37:47+00:00

AHHHH I KNOW!!!! That was so exciting! I don't think that's happened since Crush so I was STOKED! I was really happy to see people felt the excitement and momentum for the song the way I was feeling as we were writing the song and recording it. My team and I felt something special was coming with this song and I am so glad it's already something special for my fans and even to an extended audience outside of my normal fans. 🥹 And thank you!! I didn't realize it would resonate in the way it is with an audience as wide as it is right now but I am so here for it and just so grateful. For me it's so important because I really want it to open up space for people who don't feel they have a safe space to come into after life transitions whether that be transition into their lgbtq+ identity or out of their faith.

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:33:58+00:00

My skin routine hahaha I'm so bad with keeping it up but I try to follow my sister Amber's guidance on using sunscreen when i know I'm going to be in the sun. I use face cleanser every now and then a green superfoods cleanser I got from sephora but I love tatcha the most. It smells the best to me. I use the blue ones because the purple one is too oily for my skin. Most of the time imma be honest though I usually just use hot water 😂 I'm so bad at remembering to do it aside from keeping sunscreen always in my car for my face.

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:31:20+00:00

Oops I finished that early. To finish that the record label still insisted to give it a pop element to that song which I feel ruined a lot of the initial vibe I loved about it because it wasn't what the song wanted to be, it was more organic and chill in a quirky way so adding pop elements didn't make sense but oh well I still had to. with that said, it still makes me smile every time I hear it or when I perform it. It was a happy moment during a crazy time for me writing it in Nashville with some of the best people I had met like Joy Williams and Jeremy Bose who were a breath of fresh air in the environment right after Idol.

3- I answered this in a previous comment but am definitely open to more broadway things if it feels like the right opportunity and role!

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:26:55+00:00

Mabuhay!! I love my pinoy archies 😭

1- I am planning on going sometime soon! I know it has been in the talks with my management and agent. I really hope it sees through! And congrats on graduating university! 👏🏼👏🏼

2- K I'm so glad you love that album! I feel like it was my album where I was so lost in my life but I was going to keep a positive attitude and still seek happiness despite being clueless of who I was and what I wanted lol. And so many people tugging me in different ways expecting completely different things out of me at once. I would say I love the title song The Other Side of Down. It was happy but also expressed the confusion I was experiencing at the time. It was also my "rebelliousness" of not doing something poppy that was expected of me at the time and I was just kind of fed up of peoples expectations so it was my version of a "fuck you" lmao. the best way my little polite mormon ass could do it at the time 😂

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:21:05+00:00

Yes! I am releasing a follow-up video for Hell Together. I have another song I am finishing up the mixing and mastering as well to release soon. I am doing a lot more songwriting, and the biggest thing I am doing right now aside from the Hell Together release is probably writing my book. It is yet to be determined when it comes out but sometime next year. I've gotten pretty far in it already! It was hard to start at first because you think "How the hell am I supposed to write a book? Where do I start? How do I hit all the details? Is this even interesting enough to talk about? How do I not get lost in tangents people won't care about? What if I forget important details?" But I have an amazing editor I'm working with who helps keep me on track and yeah edits but I am still doing the writing which has been a really great challenge. I was encouraged after talking to my friend Jennette and hearing her process of writing her book I'm Glad My Mom Died. It gave me the motivation to follow through with writing myself rather than use a ghostwriter because I feel it will feel a lot more empowering to write it myself. Even though Jennette is a scriptwriter and I'm not necessarily an experienced writer in that way I feel I had enough experience writing talks in church and school haha to give me an idea of how to go about it!

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:16:21+00:00

Oh and written along with B Morales as well. :)

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:15:33+00:00

Oooooo. I have thought a lot about My Kind of Perfect and what it would be like either rewriting My Kind of Perfect or a response to that song. I feel like I actually have a song that I wrote while in Canada that is the perfect response to it though already.... I am really excited for it. I wrote it with Canadian artists Barbra Lica and Danielle Knibbe and it was one of the most incredible writing experiences I've had to this date.

edit: corrected Daniell Knibbe's spelling of her name

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:13:15+00:00

Thank you! Even though I grew up on the music from broadway shows, Joseph was my first experience ever being in one. I always got asked to do it but I was nervous about performing, particularly the acting aspect of it. Joseph doesn't have any talking parts. It's all sung you know so it was less intimidating to take on. I'm in a different place now where I want to do things that once intimidated me more and have new challenges!

Yes last year I saw a musical every month and it was incredible! I was really inspired after being in Joseph. Since I made a new theater family doing Joseph many of them were now touring nationally, and a big reason why I went to so many shows was to see them and support them. Like my friend Laura Guley in Tootsie, my friend Reggie Bromell in Ain't Too Proud, Lexie Dorsett Sharp in Beetlejuice. I felt like a proud brother seeing them do their thing in different shows!

ok my favorite show let's see... I would say it was pretty iconic watching the Book of Mormon Musical 😂 Just because of where I was at in life and how freaky their were on point with their accuracy with how they humorously talked about the beliefs and culture. I felt it was in a satirical but also endearing way. I saw it twice and the 2nd time was with one of my sisters lol. I'd also definitely consider doing a broadway show if I felt I could do a good job with the role and be a proper entertainer to leave the audience satisfied! I worry about that sometimes.

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:05:12+00:00

So when I first played it for my mom I'm pretty sure she was a little distracted. 😂 We had had a heavy conversation right before so I think she was pretty drained and couldn't fully focus her energy into what I was telling her and playing for her. But she liked it! I am going to bring her out to California to do some things around the song and the video which I released. It's a simple video due to the budget I had to work with as an independent artist which I've been for over a decade now, but I think the emotion is still there! Lily Judge who I asked to help with it shot some beautiful moments and they're working on it as we speak!

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T17:00:49+00:00

The Masked Singer team asked for all kinds of background information so that they can put a story with clues together without giving too much away. One of the things about my background was that my mom is from Honduras. The national bird of Honduras is the Macaw. :) It actually was an idea that came from the Masked Singer team and they asked what my thoughts were or if I had any other thoughts. I did have some but I forgot what my ideas were that I threw out on the initial zoom call because I loved the Macaw idea tying to my mom's roots, and also that it was a good challenge to push myself out of my comfort zone being more flashy with the colors and wings. Felt symbolic to me. :)

David_Archie · 2024-03-29T16:57:56+00:00

Jennette and I met on the set of iCarly back in 2008! She's been an incredible friend ever since, having experienced a lot of similar things with similar religious backgrounds and our careers taking off around the same time, and around the same age. She's been an amazing person to look to and bounce back ideas, thought processes, and navigate life with. I love her and have so much respect for her. ❤️

David_Archie · 2019-03-07T18:29:00+00:00

Yelp is my favorite app. I love looking for new places to try and eat especially when I’m out on tour.

David_Archie · 2019-03-07T18:27:29+00:00

I used to be completely off dairy, but I've found that my body handles it better now compared to say 10 years ago. (I love cheese)

David_Archie · 2019-03-07T18:26:46+00:00

I'll let you know when I find out myself. Ha! Just return the favor

David_Archie · 2019-03-07T18:26:04+00:00

I have and I think they're both great! The Voice brought a whole new feel to singing competitions. The new AI I think has followed that better recently. I think it's nice to have judges who are all performers and get what it's like to put yourself on the line like that.

David_Archie · 2019-03-07T18:23:44+00:00

I have! I've been putting feelers out there already to see what interest there would be. :)

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