‘American Idol’ season seven runner-up David Archuleta talks to ‘Today’ co-host Meredith Vieira about being on the hit FOX show and what’s happened since before performing his new single ‘Crush’. Asked if he had any advice for season eight’s hopefuls, Archuleta said, “Have a good time and keep a positive attitude. It can get rough at times, but it’s definitely worth it. It’s so much fun.” Watch the brief interview and performance, aired Tuesday (November 11), below.
Lights posted highlights from her Verizon Campus Tour with Cute Is What We Aim For, including a backstage acoustic performance of Akon’s ‘Nobody Want To See Us Together’. Watch it below.
Bonnie McKee checked in with fans on her MySpace blog on Wednesday (November 12), discussing how she took on a guitar playing role on ‘CSI:NY’ even though she doesn’t play guitar, forcing the singer to take a crash course before hitting the set. McKee writes:
I did it!!WOOOOOOOOOO!
So I kinda sorta took the role of Eleanor Rivera, a street musician who plays GUITAR without telling anyone that I don’t, in fact play guitar at all. Woops! I knew it was wrong and I did it anyway! haha….
I have taken minimal guitar lessons throughout my life. Once when I was fifteen in Seattle with a hunky guitar teacher that made my hands shake too badly to even hold a chord. Or it could’ve been the meth, who knows? LOL Those only lasted a few months… and then I gave it another shot when my ex bought me a guitar and showed me a trick or two. But I always kinda felt like “Why the hell would anyone ever want to play an instrument that fu**ing hurts so bad?!!” and I always gave up before I even had the chance to build up the calluses to numb the pain.
But this time, folks… I didn’t have a choice!! I knew it would be a great opportunity for me to finally buckle down and master this guitar thing i’ve been wrestling with my whole life. So I dusted off my old guitar and got to work! I had about ten days to figure it out, but they didn’t know which songs they wanted me to perform yet. I sent them 8 songs and then immediately was like “SH**!! Why did I do that? Now I have to learn 8 fu**ing songs in ten days!!!” Luckily, I tend to write in the same keys so as long as I knew the chords, I knew I’d be okay.
Check out the full post here.
Jordan McCoy of Dream posted an acoustic performance of Miley Cyrus’ new single ‘Fly On The Wall’ over at her MySpace TV channel. “This is my favorite song of Miley’s,” Jordan writes. Watch the performance below.
Pop trio Sugababes joined ‘X Factor’ contestants and ‘Gossip Girl’ star Chace Crawford along London’s famous Oxford Street for the big Christmas light switch-on. “It will be funny when we come here shopping after today and we look at the lights and go, ‘Oh, we switched them on’,” Heidi Range told ITN. “It’s almost like the start of Christmas for us, so it’s really good.” Watch the clip below.