In the portable-media player era, one of the common gambits for "getting to know" an artist is the celebrity playlist, in which famous people purport to reveal to the world the contents of their digital-music library. Whether these lists of tracks are real or fake or just highly massaged is frequently up for debate, given the sheer number of public-relations types in desperate need of something to do who are still employed by the music industry. But I kind of want to believe in the latest one of these to cross my transom because it comes to us courtesy of
American Idol runner-up David Archuleta, who showed the contents of "his iPod"
to USA Today as part of the runup to his album's release next week. If it's real, it shows just how much the kid has grown since he was annoying the crap out of me every Tuesday night last winter. Sure, some of the songs listed are the sorta-treacly material that made him so annoying during
Idol's seventh season (hello, Wilson Phillips!), but other tracks are really good! I swear! Five examples of this after the jump.
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