EW Video Flashback: See Blake Lewis' visit to EW.com's Idolatry after the American Idol season 6 finale:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Any response or feedback so far from the label?
BLAKE LEWIS: Every single idea that I have for this project, the company is in love with. I'm also making a documentary. We've been filming every single time I'm in the studio. We're making a DVD that should be released with the album as well — kind of a journey through American Idol to the making of this album. It's going to be great for the fans to pick up a copy of this album and see what I've been doing for such a long time.
Are you writing with your pal and fellow Idol finalist Chris Richardson?
Me and Chris Rich actually wrote this song, and in the studio it was just magic. It was probably one of the most magical days in the studio, where I recorded some guitar in Canada with Tim, our guitarist from the tour. I flew that night to L.A., woke up, got some talk-box on the track, and it's just banging.
Is Chris getting a co-writing credit on that?
Yeah, he's a brilliant songwriter. He might have a couple on Jordin's and his solo album. So, yeah, him and I have spent 24 hours a day together since Hollywood week. Our melodic sensibilities are totally different, but they mesh really well together. He and I are definitely writing, like, every other day together. My stuff is more on the jazzy side, and his stuff is more on the pop, I guess, urban [side]. The mixture of both of those is really paying off. So him and I may have the first single.
Any of the songs you performed on Idol going to be on your album, like ''You Give Love a Bad Name''?
Definitely not. I don't like singing covers unless I get to make them mine. That was already made for American Idol, and that's cool. [But] I'd rather have all completely originals, unless it was some very avant-garde cover that no one knows, or something that you can bring alive and make it your own. I had fun with ''You Give Love a Bad Name'' because, in a performance aspect, I was thinking: This is going to be really good. I had fun doing it.
How have you been managing to do all this while on tour?
I don't get sleep anyway. That's the only thing I could ever hope for: getting some decent sleep. [But] you know, man, me...I take nothing for granted, and I live it to the fullest. I could die tomorrow. I don't want to waste any time. I've always let things come to me, and I always put myself out in the universe positively, so I'm just taking this moment and running with it and hopefully I'll get to shore soon.
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