At show time, promoters said the crowd had swelled to 60,000. That was how Pinoy fans gave David Cook and David Archuleta a Goliath reception at their back-to-back gig Saturday night at the Mall of Asia open-air grounds.
Me biblical reference??
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All but two of the 15 songs he rendered were originals from his debut album. Most of them had generic, catchy melodies. The songwriting seemed deliberately formulaic, although his fine vocals made up for the drawbacks.
A couple of hits, “A Little Too Not Over You” and “Crush,” demonstrated how an audience would always fall for pop hooks.
But Archuleta’s version of a 1961 soul classic, Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me,” was the best of the lot and proved something that night—young stars need to hear old songs in order to appreciate their worth.
ME GANON?!
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