I just don't get David A. He's got a good voice, but so do a lot of singers. And I can't figure out what else there is besides the voice- there's no passion, no emotion that comes through in the song for me. It's like he's the male equivalent of a beauty pageant girl who has been coached carefully to do and say the right things but there's an emptiness inside him. Or maybe he's a wind-up robot.
I'm also trying to figure out what a David A. album would sound like, and it puzzles me. When I think of teen an tween music, there's a strong vitality and energy to that kind of music, whether it's to dance to or cry over the boyfriend that dumped you while you're listening to it. Everything is supposed to seem more emotionally intense when you're 16. But I don't feel it in him, and the couple of times he's tried to perform what I think of as 'teen music', he's failed miserably.