John Legend aiming to become an artist who can fill arenas

John Legend was disappointed with the response to his last album, 2006's "Once Again."

So with his new CD, "Evolver," Legend is aiming to become an artist who can fill arenas reports readingeagle.com

One of the things that I was thinking was, "You know, I wanna go from a theater artist to an arena artist." And part of my thinking when I was doing this was what album do I have to make to make that transition? First of all, (I need) to make songs that are going to fill up an arena and feel like they belong in that big space, so I wanted to make bigger-sounding songs and more anthemic-sounding songs. And then I just wanted to be more successful even than I've been in the past. ... But when you actually get in the studio, it's not really about the overall goals, it's about going in trying to make a great song, trying to make a great record.