陽光大衛私房粉絲網

這篇號稱是音樂會評論的文章犯了幾個面對大衛時，美國媒體都曾經犯過的錯（所以雖然她已經被大衛粉絲罵到臭頭，版主也不太忍心去對她落井下石）：

（1）輕率的先入為主的認為大衛的粉絲必然都是青少年，到了演唱會現場看到年紀大的觀眾就以為那些都是青少年的媽或監護人，殊不知那些人都是大衛真正的粉絲。

（2）把大衛和其他曇花一現的青少年偶像團體混為一談。

（3）大衛的天真，純潔，開心，健康，清新，甚至慈善都讓這個記者渾身不舒服（不要太奇怪，美國人有幾個現代通病，這是其中之一，流行歌手，尤其是男歌手，形象越壞越有吸引力）。

所以在文章中她不斷的問自己：Is this guy for real？答案是確定的時候，她就只有一個結論了：十年之後，等到這些青少年都長大的時候，就沒有人會記得大衛了。

把這篇文章貼出來是要告訴大家，其實大衛在美國能夠奮鬥到現在這種地步，而且時間這麼短就這麼成功，是多麼的難能可貴。很多美國媒體對於大衛所代表的一切（正常，健康，害羞，愛家庭，不輕易談戀愛，清新，有愛心，替別人著想）到現在都覺得不能理解（美國人實在有點奇怪）。以前他在AI時覺得他假仙，後來知道他真的就是這樣，又覺得他可能是同性戀（不然怎麼還不談戀愛），不然就像這篇文章覺得他的歌唱生涯不會長久。比起來美國以外的媒體看待大衛實在正常多了。現在大家知道版主為甚麼對以前貼過的那些英國評論那麼贊不絕口了吧，把那些評論和這種評論放在一起，版主真要對美國所謂的音樂評論歎息不已。

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The temperature of the Barrymore Theatre increased about 10 degrees when David Archuleta bounced on stage Friday night. The air was suddenly sticky with teen girl adrenaline and Bath & Body Works perfume. Cell phone screens glowed and blinked like fireflies in the stage rush. His first song was practically smothered by their hyperventilating shrieks.

Things settled down by the time the 18-year-old American Idol runner-up got into his second song, "Barriers." But he still followed it with a good-natured plea that the crowd not crush each other in excitement.

"If you could keep that in mind and not come forward too much," he asked the crowd, laughing and flopping his arms around (as he typically does). He followed almost everything he said with a little hiccup of a laugh, which is either adorable or eye-poppingly annoying, depending on your tolerance for boyish cuteness.

Archuleta's appeal is clear: he's truly wholesome and unselfconscious, not beaten down yet by cynicism. He told the sold-out crowd Friday night that he felt like he was getting sick, but was fighting it off by "eating healthy and taking my vitamins. Ha-ha!"

In an interview with Seventeen Magazine last summer, he confessed to never having been kissed and said if he wasn't a singer, he'd be an ear, nose and throat doctor. Aww. And the girl fashion trend that confuses him? "Those really short skirts."

Is this guy for real?

It appears he is. There really isn't any smarmy front with him. He's just that weirdly innocent. (But I'm with him on the really short skirt thing, if he's referring to those denim belts girls pull out every summer here. That is weird.)

In the one hour and 15 minute show, he bopped around the stage with admirable energy. He's got a strong voice and heartfelt (if sappy) delivery, only marred by his tendency to approach songs with the same timbre. He hits some ballads, like "Somebody Out There," with the same punches as his more upbeat songs.

After "My Hands," which the audience sang a capella and clapped along with him, he told everyone brightly, "Thanks for singing along. That was fun! Ha-ha!"

It's all squeaky, squeaky clean and cheery.

He clearly gets what his role is as a singer. He understands that simple songs with simple lyrics can have the most beauty and power and said as much before singing "You Can." It will be interesting to see if he grows up along with his fans or gets stuck in teenland.

It was fun to watch the preteens and young teens in the audience get so excited for him. Several fans brought handmade signs.

Kayla Ewoldt, 19, made a bunch of puffy-paint T-shirts in his honor and was hoping to pass a few out to kids after the show.

Her friend Nick Nolden, 22, was wearing one, but denied involvement in their creation. "Kayla's making them. I'm just here to drink the beer," he said.

In 10 years, this audience will laugh about how back in 2009, they were sooo obsessed with David Archuleta, just as today's 20- and 30-somethings laugh about how they swooned over New Kids On The Block back in 1990, today's 40-somethings got goo-goo eyed over the Partridge Family in the '70s and so on and so forth back to the '50s, when the concept of teenagedom was born.

Archuleta's opener, Irish singer Lesley Roy, has a deep and slightly smoky voice but can't quite muster the power for her power pop songs. She does get some interesting dissonant hooks going on "Unbeautiful," her single and the title track of her debut album, and she ended with a spirited chant-along of "Psycho Bitch." But, like Archuleta, most of her songs go in one ear and out the other.

After the show, an exalted and sated audience flowed out onto Atwood Avenue. A limo was even waiting for one lucky girl -- a Make-A-Wish Foundation recipient who even got to spend some time with Archuleta earlier in the day, the limo driver said.