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Post by ~Vera on Jul 2, 2008 14:30:41 GMT -5
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Post by mimi on Jul 2, 2008 15:01:26 GMT -5
omg.. I second that!
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Post by ~Vera on Jul 2, 2008 15:09:51 GMT -5
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Post by mimi on Jul 2, 2008 15:16:20 GMT -5
Yes Kimberly, I am jealous..but does she have to rub in it like that on tv?
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Post by ~Vera on Jul 2, 2008 15:19:52 GMT -5
Yes Kimberly, I am jealous..but does she have to rub in it like that on tv? Yes i know, David doesn't like to talk about it unless someone asks him and even then he seems to not wanna give too much information...but she just go rubbing it all in her tvshow. But i like her. She looks nice and pretty.
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Post by ~Vera on Jul 2, 2008 15:24:03 GMT -5
I just read Kimberly said in her tv show, long ago when season 7 of AI was starting i guess, that she was obssesed with David and wanted to make out with him. LOL I wanna see it, Have you micho???
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Post by mimi on Jul 2, 2008 17:23:41 GMT -5
I just read Kimberly said in her tv show, long ago when season 7 of AI was starting i guess, that she was obssesed with David and wanted to make out with him. LOL I wanna see it, Have you micho??? I have not see that .. I know she has said some nice things about him during the whole season but I never heard anything about her saying she wanted to make out with him on television.. I will search around to see if there is a video of that.
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Post by ~Vera on Jul 2, 2008 18:12:06 GMT -5
Oh yeah about the nice things i know... Maybe the wanting to make out with him isn't true, just some jealous fan invention...
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Post by mimi on Jul 8, 2008 10:45:18 GMT -5
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Post by mimi on Jul 9, 2008 11:10:18 GMT -5
David Cook just signed an endorsement deal with the footwear company Skechers. Carrie Underwood signed a similar deal in 2005. From the press release: With exclusive worldwide rights to advertise footwear using Cook’s image through December 2009, SKECHERS will feature the 25-year-old singer in various SKECHERS’ styles through a campaign that will reflect his personality, interests and appeal. Launching in Fall ‘08, the campaign coincides with the “PopTarts American Idols Live! Tour 2008,” and the debut of David’s first post-Idol album on 19 Recordings/RCA Records. The SKECHERS Cook campaign will include print, outdoor and in-store. “I have always viewed SKECHERS as a cool company, so I am excited to be a part of their campaign,” said Cook, who proved his enduring popularity by breaking an all-time Billboard chart record with 11 songs debuting on the Hot 100 in a single week after winning American Idol. “They’ve had some sensational singers like Carrie Underwood and Christina Aguilera as they were starting out and it will be great to be a part of the SKECHERS roster.” www.marketwatch.com/news/story/skechers-signs-idol-winner-david/story.aspx?guid=%7BA6707E6B-16AC-4C79-9372-86520C9C7407%7D&dist=hppr
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Post by mimi on Jul 9, 2008 11:13:30 GMT -5
David Cook and David Archuleta are on the VH1 Hottest Hunks Under 25 list. www.vh1.com/photos/gallery/?fid=1588662&pid=2996919People’s annual list of squee-worthy male-celebrities, otherwise known as People’s Hottest Bachelors, typically has an Idol or two on the list. This year is no exception as David Cook makes this year’s list. Sez the People blurb: He can sing in front of millions of people, but the 25-year-old American Idol winner admits that his stage bravado doesn’t always carry over into his personal life. “Looking a pretty woman in the eye and convincing her I’m worth taking a chance on is different. It takes a specific brand of guts, and it’s not the kind I have.” There’s a video, too. In it, David talks about dating and stuff, as he poses for photos. He also gives a clue as to just how skeery some of his fans can be! www.people.com/people/package/video/0,,20205861_20207166_20207180,00.html Of course the editors of Glamour magazine invited David Cook to attend their party to celebrate Glamour’s new Senior West Coast Editor James Patrick Herman. They know he likes the women’s magazines. The party took place June 25 in Los Angeles.
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Post by mimi on Jul 11, 2008 9:27:53 GMT -5
Article Courtesy of: Live Daily
The “American Idol” winner should be a champion for the people–and David Cook [ tickets ] is exactly that. The afternoon before the tour’s opening night in Glendale, AZ, Cook walked through the media area acknowledging each reporter. Later that evening, fans sitting side stage got a special treat when Cook stood in the wings watching fellow contestant Brooke White and encouraging ticket holders to cheer her on.
“The goal is just to try to create some energy,” said Cook, who tried out for the reality-television talent competition on a whim when he accompanied his brother Andrew to auditions. “I think, watching everybody else’s set, I’ve definitely got my work cut out for me. Everybody’s bringing it. It’s cool. If I can keep up with everybody else, I’ll be just fine.”
Cook, who began his five-song set with a rock cover of Lionel Richie’s “Hello,” spoke with LiveDaily about his forthcoming album, his love of Our Lady Peace and how it felt to win the competition.
I understand you’re working on a new album and you had the chance to work with Collective Soul’s Ed Roland. How was it?
Aww, man, I am a big fan. Obviously, I did “The World I Know” on the show. He always seems to write just really solid, hooky music. I got more nervous about meeting guys like him than I did anybody else through the show and stuff. The bands I get into, you always worry about, “Are they going to be nice?” Ed was so cool. We’re talking about going golfing when we swing through Atlanta on the tour. He’s a stand-up guy. I was really, really happy with the way everything turned out. Yeah, cool guy.
Who else have you worked with on the album?
I’ve written with a few people. I got a chance to write with Raine Maida [lead singer] of Our Lady Peace. That was just crazy. He was so nice. I got to write with Zac Maloy of The Nixons, which was cool. Let’s see, who else? I got to write with Jason Wade of Lifehouse. I guess I’m lucky. Everyone I’ve written with has been so nice and really cool. It’s been very fruitful. I’m really excited about where the record’s headed.
You did Our Lady Peace’s “Innocent” on the show. How did you discover the band? They’re biggest in border towns and you’re from Missouri.
There was a dude that I went to high school with. He was a year or two older than me. At that point, I was really trying to get into some new music. He said, “Well here. Listen to this record.” It was Our Lady Peace’s “Clumsy.” “You can borrow this, da da da.” It took me six months to get it back to him. I just loved the record. Then, once college hit and “Gravity” came out, I re-immersed myself in it. I went back and started listening to “Spiritual Machines” and “Happiness … is Not a Fish That You Can Catch.” The ambient stuff on those records is so solid. You just get lost in it. You see the charitable stuff that Raine does and that solidified it for me. I remember watching very recently his video treatment for “Yellow Brick Road,” that song he did on his solo record. It was amazing. He goes out and plays acoustic on the streets all day to try to raise $30,000 to build a school in Africa. It’s easy for somebody of his stature to kind of rest on his laurels a little bit. The fact that he is so active–I respect him more than I could ever put into words.
For the tour, are you able to choose which songs you sing?
Yeah, yeah. Mainly I’m doing stuff from the show. I’m going to be doing the single, “Time of My Life.” And then I have one song that I didn’t do on the show, that I’m very, very excited about. It’s high energy. I’m hoping to get the crowd into it a little bit and it means something to me.
Do you think you had an advantage over past contestants because you were allowed to play instruments?
I think it helped, yeah, for me personally. I knew going in I wasn’t going to be the strongest singer this season. But I knew I could hold my own in my genre. But the instrumentation helped a lot I think. I don’t want to say it was a golden goose for me or anything. At the end of the day, I think it was the perfect storm, just a lot of things falling into place for me.
You looked so shocked when you won “American Idol.”
I am. I’m still shocked. It’s like, “What?” The best way I can explain that moment was it was just an out-of-body experience. I felt like I was watching it. I try to think about it sometimes. I still haven’t really processed it. It still seems so foreign to me. I don’t feel like I changed. It’s like when you have a birthday. Somebody says, “Do you feel older?” It’s like, “No.” I don’t feel like anything’s changed just yet.
Wait until 20,000 people start screaming for you tonight. I thought that was really touching when you brought your brother on stage when you won.
He’s the reason I’m here. I feel like I’m here on his ticket. Any opportunity that I accrue to showcase the people who put me where I’m at, I’m all for it. So the fact that I was able to do that, that meant a lot to me.
Did it mean a lot to him?
I think so. When I made it through the first round, we were interviewed by a local news affiliate. They asked my brother how he was feeling. He said, “It’s great. I don’t have to do any of the work. I can just enjoy the fruits of his labor.” I tried to help out where I could. I got the chance to have him come out for his 21st birthday, which was a few weeks ago. Spend a little money on him. Pamper him. It was nice to be able to say I’m in that position in my life where I can do something like that.
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Post by mimi on Jul 18, 2008 8:31:04 GMT -5
July 17 Utah. Interview
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Post by mimi on Jul 29, 2008 16:06:28 GMT -5
news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080728/en_celeb_eo/6d57c4a4_ef6d490d_80f6_45f927fa8306Los Angeles (E! Online) David will help work the phonebank during an upcoming benefit for Stand Up to Cancer. The megafundraiser will be simultaneously broadcast live and commercial-free on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5... Stand Up to Cancer, a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, is aimed at raising money to speed up cancer research and bring new therapies to patients more quickly.
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Post by mimi on Jul 31, 2008 19:55:52 GMT -5
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Post by ~Vera on Aug 1, 2008 12:34:20 GMT -5
He's so sweet looking for support for the other idols!! And he's shocked about the cd prices awwww can anyone love him more?
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Post by mimi on Aug 1, 2008 15:27:29 GMT -5
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Post by mimi on Aug 2, 2008 10:44:07 GMT -5
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Post by ~Vera on Aug 2, 2008 22:28:43 GMT -5
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Post by ~Vera on Aug 2, 2008 22:37:55 GMT -5
Interview with the Canadian PressThis makes me so excited about how his new cd is gonna be!! Can't wait until november. canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ges00-1tLlgGbkpCphOZVaWi2hDAAmerican Idol David Cook's idol? Canadian singer-songwriter Raine Maida 3 hours ago july 25th TORONTO — He barely registered on "American Idol" until he cut his hair and sang "Hello." From then on, David Cook was the unlikely dark horse who reinvented hits from the '80s and '90s to the delight of his female fans, in the end trouncing teenage phenom David Archuleta in a landslide upset. Cook and his fellow Top 10 competitors arrive in Toronto on Saturday, and it turns out that the emo-balladeer has a musical idol of his own - Canadian singer-songwriter Raine Maida. Cook says he's long been a fan of the Our Lady Peace singer and requested a meeting with Maida when it came time to hash out material for his "Idol"-funded solo release. "The songs that we wrote were, in my opinion, some of the strongest that we've done for this record," Cook says by phone from a recent tour stop in Detroit. "I'm very pleased with how it turned out and I'm actually hoping to get together with him again before the record gets released and try to write some more." Cook notes that Maida's edgy rock sound is very much in line with the type of material he hopes to put out himself. Other rockers he's written with include Ed Roland from Collective Soul and Zac Maloy from the Nixons. "I wanted to write with people that I admired and respected and people that I thought could tune into the kind of vibe that I wanted. Raine's definitely one of those people," he says of the L.A. writing session, in which he also met Maida's wife, songstress Chantal Kreviazuk, and their sons. "I put his name on a list, I turned that list in and next thing I know he was on the schedule. With it being my first session I remember being just really nervous because you always have that kind of anxiety, this person I look up to - 'Are they going to be nice?' ... And in the first 15 seconds he completely put me at ease. He's the most unassuming, down-to-earth person I think I've ever met." Cook, who chose the Our Lady Peace song "Innocent" for his Top 8 performance, says he hopes to release the disc in the fall, and follow it up with another tour. During the Idol competition, the 25-year-old singer distinguished himself from the pack with a harder rock sound and a breathy delivery that made his female fans swoon. Unconventional arrangements of '80s and '90s classics including Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby," and Lionel Richie's "Hello" earned him glowing reviews from judges Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell. Cook's alt-rock performance of "Billie Jean," was actually a Chris Cornell arrangement, but the Idol champ lays claim to unique interpretations of "Always Be My Baby" and "Hello," which came in at week 3 as he entered the Top 16. Cook says his guitar-driven emo version of "Hello" started out as an inside joke with his buddies back home in Tulsa, Okla. "We always joked around that that would be a great power ballad. And then I had the first two weeks where I kind of stumbled over myself a little bit, was just trying to find my footing and I really walked into that third week, and was just like...'I'm just going to have fun with this song - I'll do it.' " The judges loved his rendition, and in many ways, that off-beat approach set the tone for Cook's gradual climb to the top. Cook says he's going for similar musical surprises when he releases his solo album later this year. "It's a rock record but in my opinion it's not the standard 'one-four-five' pop chord progression rock," he insists, noting the lyrics deal with "themes of love and displacement, being unsure and all those kind of vibes." "I wanted there to be some room on this record to meander and do some interesting things that make a listener want to pay attention."
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