BlAkE LeWiS -> FaN ThReAd
boobah a écritJe m'incruste dans votre topic simplement pour féliciter le fait que Blake se soit rendu jusqu'aux radios québecoises... à ma connaissance, seulement Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry et Eva Avila ont réussi un tel exploi. Bravo !!
quelle surprise pour moi de l'entendre a la radio!!
J'adore aussi Daughtry et Kelly C.
quelle surprise pour moi de l'entendre a la radio!!
J'adore aussi Daughtry et Kelly C.
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let's go Pens
let's go Pens
Citation :
BLAKE LEWIS 'BREAKS'
December 2, 2007 -- Blake Lewis may have finished behind "American Idol" champ Jordin Sparks back in May, but he was recently named the most popular artist on AOL on the strength of his first single, "Break Anotha." His album, "Audio Day Dream," which hits stores Tuesday, has the feel of an '80s mixtape, combining hip-hop and electronic influences. The Redmond, Wash., native has come a long way since his high-school beatboxing days.
- Joseph Barracato
When did you first start singing?
When I was real young. In eighth grade I went on tour with a professional youth choir in Europe. Just picture me in a robe singing "Alleluia" in Wales. But it was an unbelievable experience.
Then later you were in an a cappella group.
For four years - we were called Kickshaw. It was with a bunch of guys I met in high school. They needed a beatboxer and I just got into that. I loved making all kinds of noise, scratching and sound effects, and I still do. I have a deep-rooted love for hip-hop.
What made you try out for "Idol"?
My friend called me at 10 p.m. the night before and asked me to go with him. It turned out to be a blessing ... and absolutely amazing experience.
Nice job snapping up Lupe Fiasco for a guest slot on the CD.
I wanted to have a talented, conscious rapper and boy did I get one. I'm very fortunate to have worked with him. He's amazing.
source:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12022007/en ... 745432.htm
--Message edité par félix le 2007-12-02 12:33:13--
BLAKE LEWIS 'BREAKS'
December 2, 2007 -- Blake Lewis may have finished behind "American Idol" champ Jordin Sparks back in May, but he was recently named the most popular artist on AOL on the strength of his first single, "Break Anotha." His album, "Audio Day Dream," which hits stores Tuesday, has the feel of an '80s mixtape, combining hip-hop and electronic influences. The Redmond, Wash., native has come a long way since his high-school beatboxing days.
- Joseph Barracato
When did you first start singing?
When I was real young. In eighth grade I went on tour with a professional youth choir in Europe. Just picture me in a robe singing "Alleluia" in Wales. But it was an unbelievable experience.
Then later you were in an a cappella group.
For four years - we were called Kickshaw. It was with a bunch of guys I met in high school. They needed a beatboxer and I just got into that. I loved making all kinds of noise, scratching and sound effects, and I still do. I have a deep-rooted love for hip-hop.
What made you try out for "Idol"?
My friend called me at 10 p.m. the night before and asked me to go with him. It turned out to be a blessing ... and absolutely amazing experience.
Nice job snapping up Lupe Fiasco for a guest slot on the CD.
I wanted to have a talented, conscious rapper and boy did I get one. I'm very fortunate to have worked with him. He's amazing.
source:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12022007/en ... 745432.htm
--Message edité par félix le 2007-12-02 12:33:13--
JOYEUX NOEL ET BONNE ANNÉE 2009!!!!
Citation :Artist: Blake Lewis
Album: Audio Day Dream (19 Recordings/Arista Records)
One can’t help but proceed with caution when an album is named after Attention Deficit Disorder, especially when the artist caught his break by beatboxing on a reality TV show where he used to sing the praises of 311. But skeptics can relax: “American Idol” season six runner-up Blake Lewis’ debut is indeed a little all over the map, but, surprisingly, it works. Unlike other run-of-the-mill debuts from former “Idol” contests, the album is packed with electro-funk jams, hip-hop beats and soaring ballads that explode with Lewis’ personality. Taking cues from Justin Timberlake (“Break Anotha”), Erasure (“End of the World”), Prince (“She’s Makin’ Me Lose It”) and the Police (“1,000 Miles”), Lewis gives fans plenty to get excited about here, even those with short attention spans.
source:
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/p ... 31&ccid=13
Album: Audio Day Dream (19 Recordings/Arista Records)
One can’t help but proceed with caution when an album is named after Attention Deficit Disorder, especially when the artist caught his break by beatboxing on a reality TV show where he used to sing the praises of 311. But skeptics can relax: “American Idol” season six runner-up Blake Lewis’ debut is indeed a little all over the map, but, surprisingly, it works. Unlike other run-of-the-mill debuts from former “Idol” contests, the album is packed with electro-funk jams, hip-hop beats and soaring ballads that explode with Lewis’ personality. Taking cues from Justin Timberlake (“Break Anotha”), Erasure (“End of the World”), Prince (“She’s Makin’ Me Lose It”) and the Police (“1,000 Miles”), Lewis gives fans plenty to get excited about here, even those with short attention spans.
source:
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/p ... 31&ccid=13
JOYEUX NOEL ET BONNE ANNÉE 2009!!!!
Citation :Dream comes true for Idol runner-up
Reuters/Billboard
Published: Thursday, November 29, 2007
Blake Lewis wants to be known as an artist and not just an Idol -- or, more accurately, an American Idol runner-up.
The 26-year-old Washington state native, who finished second to Jordin Sparks on the Idol sixth-season finale in May, takes great pride in being able to say, "I'm the first person, really, to have creative control coming off of American Idol and making his own album." That includes co-writing 12 of the 13 tracks for his debut, Audio Day Dream, due out Tuesday on the label 19 Entertainment/Arista.
Lewis worked on the set's first single, Break Anotha, and Gots to Get Her, which is based on Irving Berlin's Puttin' on the Ritz. He also created specialized intros and outros for the songs.
Blake Lewis is proud he had creative control over his debut Audio Day Dream.
Brendan McDermid, Reuters
"Being on American Idol was the lottery ticket," Lewis said. "It's one of the most amazing experiences I'll never have again ever in my life. I'm not a big fan of television at all, but it's an amazing way of communicating with people. I tell people that all I was put on this Earth to do is communicate my art to people, and what better way to do that (than) on American Idol."
Lewis will make TV appearances throughout December, including on MTV's TRL and Fuse, as well as visiting major-market radio shows. The label is planning an equally heavy Internet advertising blitz along with special editions of the album for iTunes and Wal-Mart.
Aaron Borns of the RCA Music Group expects Lewis to engage in some guerrilla-style marketing to help promote the album. "He's a young guy that likes spending time on the Internet and communicating with fans, posting videos on his website, all those things," Borns said. "He's all about sharing the process with his fans."
Lewis, meanwhile, said the most fun he has is making the music. Audio Day Dream, he said, was "a blast" that allowed him to work with a "dream team." It included good pal Ryan "Alias" Tedder of red-hot band OneRepublic, who worked on eight of the tracks, as well as J.R. Rotem, BT, Mike Elizondo, David Hodges and S+A+M & Sluggo. Fellow Idol finalist Chris Richardson co-wrote the song What'cha Got 2 Lose? with Lewis and Rotem, and Lupe Fiasco guests on Know My Name.
"I don't want to be put in a box," Lewis said. "If there's any box I could be put in, it's pop music. The surprise is that, hopefully, it's an album you've never heard before, but it's very pop and mainstream. I just go with my gut feeling and my instincts and intuition. I did that on the show, and that's how I approached (the album), too."
source:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/new ... story.html
?id=1f44ce27-c3a3-4cbe-9860-99015138df13
--Message edité par félix le 2007-12-02 12:46:24--
Reuters/Billboard
Published: Thursday, November 29, 2007
Blake Lewis wants to be known as an artist and not just an Idol -- or, more accurately, an American Idol runner-up.
The 26-year-old Washington state native, who finished second to Jordin Sparks on the Idol sixth-season finale in May, takes great pride in being able to say, "I'm the first person, really, to have creative control coming off of American Idol and making his own album." That includes co-writing 12 of the 13 tracks for his debut, Audio Day Dream, due out Tuesday on the label 19 Entertainment/Arista.
Lewis worked on the set's first single, Break Anotha, and Gots to Get Her, which is based on Irving Berlin's Puttin' on the Ritz. He also created specialized intros and outros for the songs.
Blake Lewis is proud he had creative control over his debut Audio Day Dream.
Brendan McDermid, Reuters
"Being on American Idol was the lottery ticket," Lewis said. "It's one of the most amazing experiences I'll never have again ever in my life. I'm not a big fan of television at all, but it's an amazing way of communicating with people. I tell people that all I was put on this Earth to do is communicate my art to people, and what better way to do that (than) on American Idol."
Lewis will make TV appearances throughout December, including on MTV's TRL and Fuse, as well as visiting major-market radio shows. The label is planning an equally heavy Internet advertising blitz along with special editions of the album for iTunes and Wal-Mart.
Aaron Borns of the RCA Music Group expects Lewis to engage in some guerrilla-style marketing to help promote the album. "He's a young guy that likes spending time on the Internet and communicating with fans, posting videos on his website, all those things," Borns said. "He's all about sharing the process with his fans."
Lewis, meanwhile, said the most fun he has is making the music. Audio Day Dream, he said, was "a blast" that allowed him to work with a "dream team." It included good pal Ryan "Alias" Tedder of red-hot band OneRepublic, who worked on eight of the tracks, as well as J.R. Rotem, BT, Mike Elizondo, David Hodges and S+A+M & Sluggo. Fellow Idol finalist Chris Richardson co-wrote the song What'cha Got 2 Lose? with Lewis and Rotem, and Lupe Fiasco guests on Know My Name.
"I don't want to be put in a box," Lewis said. "If there's any box I could be put in, it's pop music. The surprise is that, hopefully, it's an album you've never heard before, but it's very pop and mainstream. I just go with my gut feeling and my instincts and intuition. I did that on the show, and that's how I approached (the album), too."
source:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/new ... story.html
?id=1f44ce27-c3a3-4cbe-9860-99015138df13
--Message edité par félix le 2007-12-02 12:46:24--
JOYEUX NOEL ET BONNE ANNÉE 2009!!!!
autre court article
Blake Lewis: 'I Love Older Women'
http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah7583.shtml
Blake Lewis: 'I Love Older Women'
http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah7583.shtml
JOYEUX NOEL ET BONNE ANNÉE 2009!!!!
Vous pouvez voter pour Blake ou Jordin... ou meme Elliott Yamin pour la premiere place du top 20 :
http://mhochet.com/top20.html
http://mhochet.com/top20.html
Citation :'American Idol' runner-up Blake Lewis looks to move beyond the show
4 hours ago
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Blake Lewis checked an e-mail on his iPhone and gasped.
"Rough cut of the video!" he announced, and quickly a half-dozen 19 Entertainment employees gathered around a computer screen at the "American Idol" production company's slick offices above Sunset Boulevard.
Lewis watched himself singing in front of a wavy purplish background in the clip for "Break Anotha," the uptempo first single from his first album. "It's good!" somebody volunteered after the video played a second time.
"For a rough draft," Lewis muttered. "The effects could be more stylized at the beginning."
No, the 26-year-old beatboxer from Seattle is not another just-happy-to-be-here "American Idol" finalist. Given a long-awaited shot at a major label album release with his second-place finish (Jordin Sparks was the winner), he's trying to exercise as much artistic control as possible in the Simon Fuller-created machine.
He co-wrote all but one song on "Audio Day Dream," out Tuesday on Arista Records, and is already plotting a remix album to add hip-hop and electronica flavours that he favours but wasn't able to include.
"I just call myself a communicator. And all's I wanna do is communicate my art," he told The Associated Press. "And now with this album, I get to communicate myself wholeheartedly without any hiccups or speed bumps, like 'American Idol' has, you know?" Here, he dryly affects a TV announcer voice: "Theme weeks!"
Lewis got an early start on the love-hate relationship that "Idol" alumnus like Kelly Clarkson have had with the show and their post-"Idol" handlers.
The hate part, in fact, began before he considered auditioning. He found the singing contest flipping through channels several years ago and could only watch a few seconds of painfully off-tune crooning.
"I saw this, people that cannot perform, they're just standing there singing. The camera's zooming in and out and stuff. I'm like, 'Cool, the cameras are doing their job,"' Lewis told The Associated Press. "What's the artist doing? What's this dude who's been singing karaoke his whole life doing on this television show? So I turned it off immediately. I was disgusted. And I never watched it since."
Lewis beatboxed and sang for a living for more than four years after graduating from high school. When no record deal materialized, he began working construction to support his music habit. An only child, he converted his father's barn into a $30,000 studio, caulking windows and doing metal fabrication to pay off the loan. Under the name Bshorty, he looped his beatboxing and sang at regular weekday gigs at local venues.
Which brings us to the love part of his relationship with the show. In September 2006, a day after playing a show at the Triple Door club in downtown Seattle, he tried out for "Idol" at the urging of a friend. Lewis realized he could sell himself to 20 million to 30 million people every week. That potential audience was too tempting to pass up.
"The machine of 'American Idol' was great for me, because it was just too much fun for me," he said.
Like other musically experienced contestants (think Chris Daughtry), he made the show work for him - not the other way around.
"Idol" music director Rickey Minor said Lewis was more involved in creating his own take on the music than any other contestant Minor had worked with.
"He may not have been the most talented, but he was definitely the most progressive," Minor said. "His approach and his vision for what he wanted to project was clear from the start."
On "Audio Day Dream," what Lewis does in 16 tracks is, in his words, is "electro-break funky soul pop music." To get there, he enlisted the aid of hitmaker JR Rotem (on "What'cha Got 2 Lose?"), Fiona Apple collaborator Mike Elizondo (on "1,000 Miles") and Timbaland protege Ryan Tedder, frontman in the rock band OneRepublic. The album was recorded largely while Lewis was on the road this summer with the "Idol" tour, which he called "tedious and long."
"Gots To Get Her" is Lewis' most ready-for-radio single, borrowing and reforming Irving Berlin's "Puttin on the Ritz" melody to craft embarrassingly effective fluff.
The urban flavour seen in his "Idol" back-and-forth with Doug E. Fresh is in short supply on the CD. There's just one guest rapper, Lupe Fiasco, on the celebrity crush tune "Know My Name."
"I was hoping for more hip-hop flair. It comes down to the time thing and the release date," Lewis said. "I didn't get as much beatboxing on there as I wanted to. You know, next record. Me and Doug E. were trying to get together and get maybe Black Thought, Talib or Mos Def. I wanted to do like a cipher track."
Whether or not he gets to make that next record, Lewis feels he already has one leg up on fellow "Idol" alumnus, some of whom have disappeared from the pop scene after disappointing first-album sales.
"They didn't get to do their own album," he said. "They didn't write any of their own music. And a lot of people didn't really want mainstream success. Like Taylor Hicks, I don't think he really wanted success at all even though he got first on 'American Idol.' Katharine McPhee didn't get to make the album she wants."
Of "Audio Day Dream," he says: "I made the album I wanted to make. . . . I put all this hard work and creativity into this one piece. It was the right album at its time."
source:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article ... Fd7Kjbuysg
4 hours ago
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Blake Lewis checked an e-mail on his iPhone and gasped.
"Rough cut of the video!" he announced, and quickly a half-dozen 19 Entertainment employees gathered around a computer screen at the "American Idol" production company's slick offices above Sunset Boulevard.
Lewis watched himself singing in front of a wavy purplish background in the clip for "Break Anotha," the uptempo first single from his first album. "It's good!" somebody volunteered after the video played a second time.
"For a rough draft," Lewis muttered. "The effects could be more stylized at the beginning."
No, the 26-year-old beatboxer from Seattle is not another just-happy-to-be-here "American Idol" finalist. Given a long-awaited shot at a major label album release with his second-place finish (Jordin Sparks was the winner), he's trying to exercise as much artistic control as possible in the Simon Fuller-created machine.
He co-wrote all but one song on "Audio Day Dream," out Tuesday on Arista Records, and is already plotting a remix album to add hip-hop and electronica flavours that he favours but wasn't able to include.
"I just call myself a communicator. And all's I wanna do is communicate my art," he told The Associated Press. "And now with this album, I get to communicate myself wholeheartedly without any hiccups or speed bumps, like 'American Idol' has, you know?" Here, he dryly affects a TV announcer voice: "Theme weeks!"
Lewis got an early start on the love-hate relationship that "Idol" alumnus like Kelly Clarkson have had with the show and their post-"Idol" handlers.
The hate part, in fact, began before he considered auditioning. He found the singing contest flipping through channels several years ago and could only watch a few seconds of painfully off-tune crooning.
"I saw this, people that cannot perform, they're just standing there singing. The camera's zooming in and out and stuff. I'm like, 'Cool, the cameras are doing their job,"' Lewis told The Associated Press. "What's the artist doing? What's this dude who's been singing karaoke his whole life doing on this television show? So I turned it off immediately. I was disgusted. And I never watched it since."
Lewis beatboxed and sang for a living for more than four years after graduating from high school. When no record deal materialized, he began working construction to support his music habit. An only child, he converted his father's barn into a $30,000 studio, caulking windows and doing metal fabrication to pay off the loan. Under the name Bshorty, he looped his beatboxing and sang at regular weekday gigs at local venues.
Which brings us to the love part of his relationship with the show. In September 2006, a day after playing a show at the Triple Door club in downtown Seattle, he tried out for "Idol" at the urging of a friend. Lewis realized he could sell himself to 20 million to 30 million people every week. That potential audience was too tempting to pass up.
"The machine of 'American Idol' was great for me, because it was just too much fun for me," he said.
Like other musically experienced contestants (think Chris Daughtry), he made the show work for him - not the other way around.
"Idol" music director Rickey Minor said Lewis was more involved in creating his own take on the music than any other contestant Minor had worked with.
"He may not have been the most talented, but he was definitely the most progressive," Minor said. "His approach and his vision for what he wanted to project was clear from the start."
On "Audio Day Dream," what Lewis does in 16 tracks is, in his words, is "electro-break funky soul pop music." To get there, he enlisted the aid of hitmaker JR Rotem (on "What'cha Got 2 Lose?"), Fiona Apple collaborator Mike Elizondo (on "1,000 Miles") and Timbaland protege Ryan Tedder, frontman in the rock band OneRepublic. The album was recorded largely while Lewis was on the road this summer with the "Idol" tour, which he called "tedious and long."
"Gots To Get Her" is Lewis' most ready-for-radio single, borrowing and reforming Irving Berlin's "Puttin on the Ritz" melody to craft embarrassingly effective fluff.
The urban flavour seen in his "Idol" back-and-forth with Doug E. Fresh is in short supply on the CD. There's just one guest rapper, Lupe Fiasco, on the celebrity crush tune "Know My Name."
"I was hoping for more hip-hop flair. It comes down to the time thing and the release date," Lewis said. "I didn't get as much beatboxing on there as I wanted to. You know, next record. Me and Doug E. were trying to get together and get maybe Black Thought, Talib or Mos Def. I wanted to do like a cipher track."
Whether or not he gets to make that next record, Lewis feels he already has one leg up on fellow "Idol" alumnus, some of whom have disappeared from the pop scene after disappointing first-album sales.
"They didn't get to do their own album," he said. "They didn't write any of their own music. And a lot of people didn't really want mainstream success. Like Taylor Hicks, I don't think he really wanted success at all even though he got first on 'American Idol.' Katharine McPhee didn't get to make the album she wants."
Of "Audio Day Dream," he says: "I made the album I wanted to make. . . . I put all this hard work and creativity into this one piece. It was the right album at its time."
source:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article ... Fd7Kjbuysg
JOYEUX NOEL ET BONNE ANNÉE 2009!!!!
Citation : December 3, 2007
Blake Lewis is "stoked!!!!!"
Bothell resident plans multiple appearances to hype new album
Posted at 10:18 am
I've got to plead ignorance on this one.
Not only am I new to the Pacific Northwest, but I did not follow "American Idol" last season. I had no idea Blake Lewis, a Bothell resident, was a big deal in this area until, like, Friday.
Tuesday, his new CD comes out. It's called "Audio Day Dream," which cheekily abbreviates to ADD, as in attention deficit disorder. I probably should have scored a copy, and reviewed that. Whoops.
So far, it's doing OK with critics. According to the AP, "The radio-friendly fantasy begins with some hip-hop stained songs that, at least musically, are as curiously pleasing as the blond boy wonder's streaky dye job. The album's lyrics, which seem like they're all directed at one woman (or several women, perhaps), are primitive yet passable for inoffensive pop."
The Seattle Times, however, said the album "doesn't differentiate him from the herd of MTV mall-pop."
Lewis' official Web site hypes the new record as being "a spectacular hodgepodge of styles as varied as synth-pop, alterna-funk and old school hip-hop."
"I wanted to make a record where every song sounds like it could be on the radio, but my radio," said Lewis, 26, who appeared on "American Idol" last season.
Lewis plans to play the Tacoma Dome at the KISS-FM Jingle Bell Bash Tuesday night. Tickets, starting at $25, are still on sale.
Earlier Tuesday, he's scheduled to sign autographs outside the Tacoma Dome, from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m., at the Fred Meyer booth, next to the KBKS live broadcast booth.
He promoted a secret show through his MySpace page. According to posts, Lewis listed his mood as "stoked!!!!!" He said the "secret show, with secret people, doing secret things, singing secret songs, being very secrety," is at 8 p.m. Tuesday night. Are the secret show and the KISS-FM show one and the same? Maybe. After all, Lewis was recently added to the KISS-FM bill.
On Thursday, Lewis plans to premier his new video, "Break Anotha", on Yahoo!, and on Friday, he's scheduled to hit "Live with Regis and Kelly."
source:
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/200712 ... 1/71203002
Blake Lewis is "stoked!!!!!"
Bothell resident plans multiple appearances to hype new album
Posted at 10:18 am
I've got to plead ignorance on this one.
Not only am I new to the Pacific Northwest, but I did not follow "American Idol" last season. I had no idea Blake Lewis, a Bothell resident, was a big deal in this area until, like, Friday.
Tuesday, his new CD comes out. It's called "Audio Day Dream," which cheekily abbreviates to ADD, as in attention deficit disorder. I probably should have scored a copy, and reviewed that. Whoops.
So far, it's doing OK with critics. According to the AP, "The radio-friendly fantasy begins with some hip-hop stained songs that, at least musically, are as curiously pleasing as the blond boy wonder's streaky dye job. The album's lyrics, which seem like they're all directed at one woman (or several women, perhaps), are primitive yet passable for inoffensive pop."
The Seattle Times, however, said the album "doesn't differentiate him from the herd of MTV mall-pop."
Lewis' official Web site hypes the new record as being "a spectacular hodgepodge of styles as varied as synth-pop, alterna-funk and old school hip-hop."
"I wanted to make a record where every song sounds like it could be on the radio, but my radio," said Lewis, 26, who appeared on "American Idol" last season.
Lewis plans to play the Tacoma Dome at the KISS-FM Jingle Bell Bash Tuesday night. Tickets, starting at $25, are still on sale.
Earlier Tuesday, he's scheduled to sign autographs outside the Tacoma Dome, from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m., at the Fred Meyer booth, next to the KBKS live broadcast booth.
He promoted a secret show through his MySpace page. According to posts, Lewis listed his mood as "stoked!!!!!" He said the "secret show, with secret people, doing secret things, singing secret songs, being very secrety," is at 8 p.m. Tuesday night. Are the secret show and the KISS-FM show one and the same? Maybe. After all, Lewis was recently added to the KISS-FM bill.
On Thursday, Lewis plans to premier his new video, "Break Anotha", on Yahoo!, and on Friday, he's scheduled to hit "Live with Regis and Kelly."
source:
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/200712 ... 1/71203002
JOYEUX NOEL ET BONNE ANNÉE 2009!!!!