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Topic History of: Leona Lewis - why is she so successful?
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)

Author	Message
Mart	I bet theyve all seen one whilst shopping though. Overkill perhaps?
DJones	The Leona-Lewis-Fever has reached Germany. Because of the great demand for "Bleeding Love", Sony BMG will rush release the single - in January 2008.
newbee	I asked 100 people of varying ages 'Have you bought a Leona Lewis cd'. Guess what - not 1 had! Interesting survey I thought. Anyway I must get out more ...
itsmyparty	I think Miss Lewis is being dealt rather a raw deal here. For a start she can sing the hind legs off a donkey and proved it week in week out within the confines of the live X-Factor show. And we're not just talking the minimal requirement of being in tune here, but goosebump-raising quality. Interpretation? What sort of interpretation are you going to get on a show like that where every note has been scripted by the puppet masters? If you want to know whether she can take a song and, to use the cliche, "make it her own", then try and listen to her version of Snow Patrol's "Run" which was performed on Raio 1's Live Lounge a couple of weeks back. Stunning. Bleeding Love is a cracking song as some have said. And it goes far beyond the hype others have suggested. It's a song you hear teenage girls singing along huddled around a mobile phone on the back of a bus. Or you find a whole club singing along to the killer chorus. It's zeitgeitish to ruin a word. No hype can force mass displays of choral affection. The song was written by Ryan Tedder of One Republic (whose Apologize with Timbaland is doing high numbers at the top end of the chart - his band's new album about to officially drop is excellent by the way) and was written after he'd heard her a recording of her singing. He's written/produced another track on the album called Take A Bow which will also chart big. Many of the stellar cast of writers/producers on the album came on board after she did a live showcase for them out in LA organised by Clive Davis. Now you can always lead a horse to water, but you can't force it to write a song for you. Her major problem remains her personality, or lack of it. She's just too nice for the business. But give her a song to sing live such as Homeless off the album and personality can take a long hike off a tall cliff.
Walter Sobchak	There looks to be the makings of a story here. Unsung hero delivers his master's prize artist with a huge hit. It will interesting to see if the very poor reviews of the album-because the quality of the other tracks is so poor-affect medium term sales leading up to Xmas.