David Archuleta Talks New Music and 'American Idol' Co-Star Syesha Mercado's Child Custody Battle
David Archuleta wants to get you up on your feet this summer with his vibrant new single “Movin’” that has the 30-year-old evolving a great deal from his breakout smash hit “Crush” 13 years ago, which has since amassed more than 130 million streams on Spotify and 127 million views on YouTube. But is the vibrant and upbeat summer track just a tease of more new music to come? While dishing on his latest single with PopCulture.com, Archuleta addresses whether the smooth dance track alongside other hits like, “Losin’ Sleep” and “Be That for You” will be part of a new record.
“I was just kind of releasing a song at a time as I wrote them. That way I felt like they were more fresh. But maybe I can,” the former American Idol star admits to PopCulture. “I was talking to my manager — I’m like, ‘Hey, maybe I can add a couple of songs and then put an EP out’ because I still have a couple more and I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m running out of time this year to release them.’ I'm like, ‘Well, maybe I can just place them all together, so people have something for our 2021.’”
In addition to weighing in on new music and how he has evolved as an artist in the industry, the singer-songwriter expressed how he is in awe of former Idol co-star Syesha Mercado’s strength amid the devastating situation that has found her children, 1-year-old Amen’Ra and 10-day-old Ast with partner Tyron Deener, in child protective services. “[She’s] always been very level-headed, very mature. She’s always had this elegance and grace to her sophistication,” Archuleta told PopCulture. “It pained me to see her going through this and I was just devastated. I was shocked. Because I’m like, Syesha’s such an intelligent, strong human being — a powerful woman and a powerful human.”
