In case you haven’t heard, Jordin Sparks was crowned this season’s American Idol last night.
But Blake Lewis did his beat boxing this well as usual, and looks to have a successful career ahead of him. Below, the man that makes many young ladies swoon talks with MTV…
MTV: Let’s talk about your collaboration [with Doug E. Fresh]. Sorry, Bette Midler, but Blake’s performance was definitely the hottest thing tonight. Was it a dream come true?
Lewis: That was Doug E. allowing me to hang out with him onstage, and that was an honor. Forever etched in my brain. It was one of the hottest times I will ever have onstage. It was just a dream come true. Hopefully I’ll get to get him in the studio, and we’ll have to do, like, a beatbox track, you know? Get something really down.
MTV: Let’s talk about the album. Any news on that?
Lewis: You know, I can only hope in the next, like, two weeks or before the tour that I get signed and get management. Things take [their] course, it seems, from the show. Hopefully I get represented by the creative people I surround myself with and get to make the album I’ve always wanted to. I’ve tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I’ve represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show. So I’m excited to do that even more so singing my own songs I’ve written and, you know, just be me 110 percent.
MTV: If you had any dream collaborator in the studio, who would you pick?
Lewis: B.T. He’s my favorite producer pretty much ever. I’ve been talking to him. He hasn’t seen American Idol, but I opened for him a long time ago and he wanted to work a long time ago. And now we have the opportunity to maybe get together and work. It’s not official, but I talked to him for a couple hours about it. …
There’s so many amazing producers out there that are more underground. I like DJ Shadow, I love Dan the Automator. Will.I.Am is an amazing producer, and he lives in that realm of hip-hop, dance and pop. … I’d love to work with anyone that would really want to work with me. I’d love to work with Danger Mouse and Gnarls Barkley and Cee-Lo. Robin Thicke … The possibilities are endless. I’m putting it out there. If you want to do something, call me!
MTV: What can we expect on the tour?
Lewis: Tour! Oh, I’m very excited about the tour, because I get to use my loop pedals and my guitar. We’re all playing instruments this time. That’s never been done before. I think maybe Chris Daughtry played some guitar last year. But everyone plays a different instrument, like Chris Richardson plays drums; he’s been playing drums for, like, 15 years. [Chris] Sligh plays guitar, Phil [Stacey] can play keyboard, I play guitar and keyboard, bass.
For me, I’m excited because I’m gonna do a one-man band show because I have all my loop pedals from beatboxing and then I play guitar and sing over that, so I’m gonna do kind of like a little medley that I used to do — the only two songs that I used to ever cover. One of them I sang on the show.
Sadly, he Blake say a word about possibly seeing Antonella Barba nude.