Leona Lewis - Echo

Leona 2nd album news

This all sounds quite false to me, but I'll post it anyway, from The Mirror....:

Leona Lewis will reportedly enter recording booth alongside powerhouse producer/rapper Timbaland for her upcoming sophomore set. "Timbaland can't wait to work with Leona and make her feisty like Beyonce [Knowles] and Rihanna," a source says as quoted by The Mirror.

Other big names rumored to be lined up to help Leona in the new album are Jay-Z and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. No official statement has been given regarding the news though.

Previously, Justin Timberlake has been confirmed to produce one of Leona Lewis' new singles called "Don't Let Me Down". He visited Chalice Recording Studios when the winner of 2006 "The X Factor" recorded the new track back in March.

Details on what fans can expect from the new album are still unclear. But, a spokesperson for Leona promises that the record will still have the singer's trademark ballad tunes in addition to danceable sounds. "The ballads will still be there but the tracks will be racier and there'll be dancefloor anthems too," the spokesperson says. "It's early stages but we're all very excited."

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LEONA Lewis is turning to the brains behind Girls Aloud's genius pop songs for her second album.

Music Week's Producer Of The Year recipients Xenomania penned five tracks for the follow-up to the Hackney gal's multi-million selling Spirit.

Songwriter Miranda Cooper told me: "We are not going to change Leona's style but it's interesting for us to do something downbeat; tragic songs with a twist."

Miranda and Xenomania other half Brian Higgins also won Music Sync Of The Year for Gabriella Cilmi's Sweet About Me.

Leona Lewis's second album is planned for a worldwide release in November 2009. Production is said to have begun in February 2009, including work with other (rumoured) producers/songwriters such as Ryan Tedder, Ne-Yo, Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, will.i.am and Jay-Z.

So boring. The standard run of the mill producers like always.

This post has been edited by I Am... Michael Fierce on Apr 5 2009, 07:16 AM

I'm SO anticipating this!

NOT.

And OMG she's SO interesting using Timbo and Timbertwat, talk about stretching herself out! wow.

Well I for one CAN'T WAIT! Come on loves, a new Leona album means at least 12 more opportunities to hear her sing and be bowled over by her beautiful voice!

I think this is true, well partly at least anyway, because there was a picture of her in the studio with Justin that leaked a couple of months ago:

Justin is so gay

Doesn't anybody else here think Leona has one of the best voices they've heard...like EVER?! Seriously, I can't think of anyone else that sings so beautifully, she is just mesmerising and the heart and emotion she puts into her delivery is stunning.

This performance in particular leaves me speechless!




She is truly amazing, I love her so much.

while she undoubtedly has amazing vocals, I find her vocal delivery quite bland and souless to be honest..

I think she has a great voice. However, her singing style is totally bland. She really doesn't have her own style and borrows heavily from past singers which is annoying. The vid posted above sounds EXACTLY the way Celine Dion sang it back in '99.

She is not very creative but I do give her credit for having a great voice and singing her songs well. She should stick to ballads though cause her uptempo/urban styled songs are very try hard.

This post has been edited by Sick Piger on Apr 5 2009, 08:43 PM

Nooooo, how can you say that?!? How can you NOT see how much heart and soul drips from every words she sings. Just look at Run - compare it to the original and you can just see how much more heart wrenching she made it, obviously her vocals were technically flawless, but the real winning aspect of it was her delivery of the words.

Can you post Celine's version please?

She's not an spectacular singer but she's better than Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé.

I just cannot WARM to this woman.

THAT BEING SAID. I love some tracks on her album.

I, for one, agree with you TOTALLY, Naaman! I don't know what Leona does or how she does it, but her voice has an indefinable quality. Every time I hear her I'm moved. She doesn't force her vocals, or scream and shriek, she doesn't have a hard edge to her voice, and she doesn't rely on knocking you senseless with her mega-decibels. Her voice just seems to flow out, with all the emotion required to make the most of a song, and there's a sense of calm and space in her timing that very few singers possess. Her technique and delivery are totally different from Celine's.

And to put what I'm saying in context, I usually HATE big-belting-ballad singers. They leave me completely cold. Leona is the exception.

OMG, how can you say that!? That was one of the biggest crimes against music last year!
She took such a deep, well respected, emotional track and turned it into a run of the mill bland cover version!!

YAY KAZ!

OMG, how can you say that!? That was one of the biggest crimes against music last year!
She took such a deep, well respected, emotional track and turned it into a run of the mill bland cover version!!

Oh COME ON!! Her version struck a chord with people and you know it! That's why it went from just being a one-off cover version for Radio 1's Live Lounge to being professionally recorded and released as a single, because everyone was raving about it so much! And then she delivered that completely KILLER performance on X Factor and showed exactly why her version was met with such acclaim.

Leona's voice is like an instrument. It blends so well with the music.

And her live lounge version of Run is one of the best live performances I've EVER heard...Flawless.

Her Bleeding Love and Run performances on X-factor were both

This performance is 10 years old and it made that song really popular again. It was the first time I had heard it and when I looked it up it was made it the 70's by Roberta Flack:





Celine made this song her own and gave it a new dimension. I doubt Leona would have sung this song if it weren't for Celine's remake. It sounds almost identical to the way Celine sang it; very typical copycat of her. Leona is like Simon's Barbie doll and he fashions her after previous divas. Then he makes her out to be the best thing since sliced bread. But so far she's proved to be a karaoke star.

This post has been edited by Sick Piger on Apr 6 2009, 06:42 PM

Piggy...... I normally respect your opinions, but you do talk a lot of b******s on occasions. And this is one of those occasions. Or are you just trying to be provocative?

There's nothing "typical copycat" OR "barbie" about Leona. If you can't hear the difference between Celine and Leona, I can only conclude that too much listening to Aguilera has damaged both your hearing and your critical faculties.

Its okay to like an artist but its another thing to make excuses for them just because you might like them.

Thanks for posting the videos Sick. Obviously there's nothing negative about Celine's version at all, as she is a fantastic singer, but there's something about Leona's, it just sounds...warmer, more beautiful. I prefer it to Celine's but it's just a matter of opinion really.

As well as Celine's cover, the song also came to my attention through George Michael's rendition of it for his covers album some years ago.



It's amazing that a young girl from east London can take on these established superstars who are only covering this song once they are well into their careers. For that alone Leona deserves alot of credit.

George's is nice too.

Leona still has a lot to learn. But she's got the stuff. Maybe one day she won't need the training wheels.

This new album NEEDS to be amazing. I loved Spirit alot but I do think alot of its material was beneath her and her capabilities. It's really interesting because I want to see more from her as an artist but I don't really know exactly what type of music I would ideally like her to do.

I think more tracks in the style of Bleeding Love and Run is obviously the best option, but it's weird...they don't really belong to a certain genre do they? They're just great songs full stop.

I *WISH* she had been given Halo! Obviously I ADORE what Beyonce did to it but I really feel like we missed out by not being able to hear Leona's version. Every time I play it I can just imagine how well she would have done with it. And I think it was perfect first single material for her second album, something the public would have been more than satisfied for her to come back with.

You do wonder what else she has to give when she can let 'Halo' go. I'd have loved to hear her do 'Halo' though!

I really HOPE her new album won't be a load of mid-tempo generic r&b stuff. I really believe ballads and other emotional songs are Leona's territory.

And yeah, I'd LOVE to hear her do "Halo" too. I think that's my song of the moment.