David Archuleta is getting ready for a metamorphosis.
On the red carpet for the premiere of the documentary Megan Thee Stallion, In her wordsthe american idol The alum found the words to describe the new music he was releasing.
“Right now I’m coming clean from where I was,” Archuleta admitted to PEOPLE. “It was a good place to be, but I feel like it’s a metamorphosis, you shed your skin. That was my caterpillar stage, and now it’s time to blossom. And I feel like ‘Hell Together’ was kind of like my cocoon, where it’s changing, and now it’s like, ‘Hey, this was my old skin and it’s time to shed it.'”
David Archuleta at the Lambda Awards on October 24, 2024 in West Hollywood, California.
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David Archuleta Reveals What His Mom Sent Him After ‘Hell Together’ Came Out (Exclusive)
Archuleta also hinted at the direction of his upcoming album, telling PEOPLE that he’ll be “channeling pop girls, channeling a little bit of my Latino roots.”
The 33-year-old released his cathartic single “Hell Together” in April and premiered it exclusively via PEOPLE. The song was inspired by a text he received from his mother, Lupa Bartholemew, a few days after he explained that he was leaving the Church of Latter-day Saints. The text read: “I don’t want to be somewhere where my children don’t feel welcome, loved and accepted … if you’re going to hell, we’re all going with you.”
In 2021, Archuleta came out as part of the LGBTQ+ community in an Instagram post. “I came out as gay to my family in 2014. But then I had similar feelings for both genders and maybe the bisexual spectrum,” the “Crush” singer said at the time. “Then I also learned that I don’t have as many sexual desires and urges as most people, which I guess works because I have an obligation to save myself until marriage. What people call asexual when they don’t experience sexual urges.”
David Archuleta on coming out of Mormonism after coming out as queer: ‘I feel liberated’
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David Archuleta in New York in June 2024.
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The singer, who was a devout Mormon, began to struggle with the contradictions between his identity and the church’s beliefs. After breaking off three engagements with three different women, Archuleta realized he was repressing his sexuality.
“I’m sure other people who have been in that situation can relate,” he told PEOPLE in 2022. “People who are queer, who tried to get married just to do the ‘right’ thing, end up not being a very good thing , but it’s not very healthy for either participant in the relationship.”
He eventually walked away from the church, saying, “Once you step away, you can finally see the fuller picture. It’s confusing because literally all the pictures on my wall are Christian pictures of Jesus and scriptures and things. Now I think, ‘This was my the world, but now it is not?’ I have no idea.”
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