DAVID COOK EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!
13/07/2012 20:42
DAVID COOK EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!
by Jeman Villanueva
July 13, 2012 - 3:07 pm
David Cook is here in Manila for a series of concert and we had chance to interview the American Idol Season 7 grand winner.
Here’s our EXCLUSIVE interview with David Cook:
Orange Magazine TV: Hi David Cook, mabuhay from the Philippines and congratulations on your new concert.
David Cook: Thank you and I’m excited to be back. I think three years took a lot of time. We were able to come out in 2009 and play still on one of the most incredible concerts that I have ever been a part of. The crowd was massive and wild. The whole experience was incredible. So I’m really excited and thrilled to get back and play these new songs and as well as some of old ones for the Filipino contingent.
Orange Magazine TV: That’s nice. Do you have any unforgettable memories of your first visit in the Philippines?
David Cook: Honestly, the whole thing (experience) and (until) to this day when I talk to friends and ask me, you know, what was the best show you played or the best concert I have been a part of – that manila show is absolutely at the top, consistent and in fact, on my phone I still have pictures- somebody took a picture on a top of a building of the entire crowd and the stage. You can see how small the stage is. It’s humbling beyond comprehension and so, really the whole thing and that was my first real trip, you know, on the other side of the earth.
Orange Magazine TV: Do you still get in touch with David Archuleta?
David Cook: Uhm, you know, it’s been a while. Archie (David Archuleta’s nickname) just went on his two-year mission a few months back and I just haven’t got a chance to talk to him since then. But before that, you know, we did stay in a pretty steady contact… and a lot of us in Season 7, I think we all had a good year and everybody got along with each other and so, to this day, we still talk to each other as a group and just awesome. I love this guy and I’m so glad that I got to experience it with him.
Orange Magazine TV: Have you heard about David Archuleta doing some TV stint here in the Philippines?
David Cook: Yeah, I did hear about it. I was super, super happy for him. I know he was really excited about doing it. Uhm, yeah, from what I hear he did pretty well.
Orange Magazine TV: So the question is, can we expect to see David Cook doing the same thing?
David Cook: Uhm, you know, if the right role came across with the right time, yeah, I would be into it and it’s the music that has always been kinda works for me and as long I can keep playing music and it’s an opportunity to come along and excite me and I will do it.
Orange Magazine TV: How about a musical like the Rock of Ages?
David Cook: Uhm, again, maybe, I think it all in the good descriptive, so just let me know.
Orange Magazine TV: I asked some of your fans on twitter and some of them are interesting like this one, fans are raving about your new songs: Take Me As I Am, and From Hero To Zero. Can you tell us something about these two songs?
David Cook: Take Me As I Am actually is a song from a record I put up last year. The record is called This Loud Morning. That song actually was written, worked with Mark Dobson and Scott Stevens — two guys who I had a blast working with, definitely very cool guys. The song itself just came out very organically and it started making stronger basic chord construction for the band and to get it quickly. Definitely, it’s very hard to pull off live though it’s been a lot of fun when I able to.
The other song, From Hero To Zero is actually one of the batch of new songs that I’ve been working on the tour, third record. I wrote that song (—). Definitely a departure for me. I think, you know, I checked the background. It’s like the 90′s grunge rock and alternative and… I felt like a good loud (and) distorted guitar. So, to the previous records and for the new stuffs, I really want to sit back on melody a little bit and try to carve down and try something a little bit bigger and From Zero to Hero, definitely kinda adheres to that. It’s a softer song but it still feels like it carries a lot of emotion that I look for in any song that I write and try to perform live. So I had imagined that it’s gonna be a song that people are gonna hear when we come out to the Philippines.
Orange Magazine TV: Can we expect for you to perform that here in the Philippines?
David Cook: Uhm, yeah. In fact, I think we just sent out the tentative solos today and I think that’s song is on. I think I’m already giving away a one new song.
Orange Magazine TV: Do you still include Always Be My Baby in your set list or are you tired singing that already?
David Cook: On very rare occasions. I have no problem singing it. I think it’s a song that’s definitely seems resonates more in Asia so I’d be surprised if we didn’t play it. It’s a song that can bring out once in a while.
Orange Magazine TV: If you were given an offer to judge in a singing competition like American Idol, would you accept it?
David Cook: Sure. Maybe. It would have to be the right show. Uhm, you know, what I didn’t want to do is go judge on a show that is not really about the contestants but about the judges. You know, I think it’s like more of these reality singing competitions that kinda intervene and it becomes really harder to differentiate between the two so for me, if I were gonna do that to be a part of the show where the audience or the viewing public of the like can really get to know the contestants and become emotionally connected to those contestants because that’s where I have been in American Idol- with being able make a connection with the people on TV and the audience. And, I feel like, that some of us should got to hear that as well.
Orange Magazine TV: Is it okay if I ask questions about American Idol?
David Cook: Oh, of course. Ask away!
Orange Magazine TV: How do you feel that some critics are saying that it’s becoming a trend in American Idol that the winners are always the white guys playing the guitars?
David Cook: Uhm, I mean yeah. They are facing a trend but I think it looks like, you know, the contestants and the winner are decided by the people. the people who are calling in and voting are the one whose responsible for these winnings. The only thing that I can say is that if that isn’t the people want then they won’t vote for it. Otherwise, the problem is kinda from the one who votes, I guess.
Orange Magazine TV: Can you plug your album and promote your concert?
David Cook: We have a record out called This Loud Morning, definitely the largest undertaking in music that I have a part of as far as making records. And as a result, I think, (it is) definitely a record that I’m extremely proud of and I’m very excited to take it out and play these songs for people. And so, yeah, we’re gonna come and play these songs for you guys on July 14th at the Araneta Coliseum in Manila and July 15th at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino in Cebu. So, definitely, everybody come out and you’ll have a good time.
Orange Magazine TV: Last question David, any plans of releasing a new album?
David Cook: We are writing the new materials as we speak and (hope that it will be released) the sooner the better. And I promised my fans that I’m working as hard as I possibly can to make sure I will put this record and will not take three years.
Orange Magazine TV: Okay, thank you very much David, it was a pleasure talking to you. See you on your concert!
David Cook: Likewise. Thank you so much. Absolutely, see you. Bye.
Credit/Source: orangemagazinetv.com
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