David Cook – The Last Song I’ll Write For You – Preview Snippet! (Song is Self-Released!)

By On 05/08/2012 · 237 Comments · In American Idol, David Cook

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Listen to a snippet of David Cook’s new song “The Last Song I’ll Write For You” at Amazon! David will debut his new single on the American Idol results show this Thursday May 10.

ETA: This song is self released. Hm. What does that mean for David? Has he parted ways with RCA? Considering his last CD didn’t exactly race up the charts, it’s a possibility. David’s official RCA website has not been updated in almost a month. Hm.

 
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  • http://twitter.com/ljrTR LJR

     David Cook isn’t destroyed.  Judging by his successful arena appearance at Tiger Jam and his wonderful, happy Race for Hope weekend any way.

    fans who care may angst over his career; others may watch in glee.  who knows.  DC is the only artist from Idol that I follow & yeah I know I’m over invested.  so sue me.

  • Anonymous

    Hmm.. Is the ‘you’ in the ‘The Last Song I’ll Write For you” refering to RCA?

  • HappyDaisy

    It is for sale in Australia, cause I’m looking at it on Australian iTunes.

    Woo hoo!  Are we going to be able to buy it in U.S. by midnight tonight?

  • Mateja Praznik

    Sure he isn’t destroyed and as we can see, he is releasing music even without RCA.

    I’m just saying, RCA is not the devil that is responsible for lack of success with Cook’s second era.

  • Listening

    WordnerdArchie nice find. I’m liking the song more w/ this extended snippet and i’m feeling a little better still nervous though. I still think From Here To Zero would sell better and I feel more of a connection to it but I think this song is prettier than I initially thought. I’m willing to have a more optimistic out look to whether or not i’ll really like the song now maybe when I hear the entire song it will push me over the edge. The lyrics are teasing me a little. I want to hear the rest. Listening to the song i’m like hold on was that a flutter in my heart. Why yes I think that was a little tug, woah that lyric made an impression.

    Oh one more thing does that drum beat near the end of the snippet sound familiar to anyone else? I feel like Kelly or Leona might of had that beat.

  • iani

     Bohoho, Big Bad Label RCA destroyed another Idol …?

    I think the discussions have been more about “what’s going on and why it has reached that point of an eventual DC-departure” than strictly RCA-the idol destroyer. We may never know the DC-RCA truth behind the scene.

     Major labels are not charities. Music industry is a business. If you don’t make money, you are out.

    Hmm, not for many or everyone with poor albums/singles sale it is that “business rule” practicable. Watching this list of RCA artists  http://www.rcarecords.com/artists  many I think would be out too following the business path. New Politics did almost nothing in US and  they will have a second LP  by the end of 2012 put a LP out by the end of the year. Will they be dropped(or others) if they don’t reach the expectations? How much is too much(or less) for RCA budget to keep an artist on their roster and  help them developing as better artists? And yes, it seems to me that RCA-idol team is parting ways easily w/their idols than RCA w/non idols ones. Just a thought.

  • CircadianDomination

    This is the kind of song I expected to come out of the Teddar cowrite. I much prefer this to TLG.

  • Anonymous

    Of course not, and I suspect that David would be the first person to agree with you.

  • Anonymous

    It sure sounds to me like this song is Dave telling RCA goodbye.

  • Karen C

    The thing that RCA could have done better is to market the album to the proper audience.  Yes, the album didn’t fit into current CHR or HAC, but it would have fit right into Adult Alternative, and possibly some songs with Alternative Rock.  If it had been classified as one of these categories instead of Pop, and marketed right, it could have done much better.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Madelon.21 Madelon Laca

    The song is already up on iTunes! OMG, I’m loving it. THE VOICE :THUD:

  • Anonymous

    Mateja Praznik:I’m just saying, RCA is not the devil that is responsible for lack of success with Cook’s second era.

    So if the album had succeeded, would RCA also not be responsible? Just curious.

    I think I’m missing comments, because I haven’t seen anyone actually say that but that aside, let’s see: the label picks the singles, picks the album tracks, approves the marketing plan, decides which format to market songs to and for how long they will be pushed, and yet, they are blameless when that doesn’t work? Must be nice to have all the power and none of the responsibility.

    The problem is that this premise of blamelessness only takes into account what they did (while charging the artist a pretty, recoupable sum for it, btw) and ignores the things the label missed. Like what the majority of the music actually sounds like and where the audience for it might be. 

    You know what I would love? I would love to hear from the person who is so wise and well-versed in the music business, who knows so much about how music consumers think and who is absolutely certain what kind of songs will succeed and what won’t AND who *also* picked the specific tracks on Adele’s 21 that were going hit not just on AAA, but on HAC and Pop, and that would stay at #1 for weeks on end. I’d like to hear from the person who predicted her album would sell close to 10 million copies. That’s the person I’ll believe can prognosticate what works in the music business.

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