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| Believe it or not, when Ace Young made the top 10 of American Idol TV show and became part of the tour, he had some misgivings. Touring is great, but he had his own album to do. "This is my shot to prove myself as a songwriter. I really want to make sure I have fun in every song I write and when I get really intimate with something I really wanna say I get my point across," he says. When the tour - hitting the Pepsi Center tonight - threatened to get in the way of those plans, "at first I was a little bothered. I wanted to get working on the music," he says. He quickly changed his mind. "When I got off the show I said I want to meet everybody - I want to meet the people who have given me this opportunity," he says. And touring gives him "so many more experiences I have so much to write about." Besides, "I love the tour. You do a full day of work. You get at the venue at 1, 1:30. We're doing press, meet-and-greets. Then we're getting ready for the show. Then we're in work mode and performance mode till 11 o'clock at night. Then we travel at night on the buses," he says. "I'll get to a hotel and it's easier for me to work while I'm awake than wake up in the morning and be creative." |