Her voice has some potential, but that Bleeding Love song is boring as hell.

HITS is reporting the album will debut at #1 with...

190-220K coming in.

I'm sure that's disappointing for Clive.

TotalAlisa said:

I was just saying Mariah's "Touch My Body" Should have been this song Bleeding Love...which sounds more mature and deep...however I dont know if she soely wrote the song herself. Mariah could have wrote Touch My Body for another artist.

Not impressed with her so far. She is cute and not much else. Very average.

The first word that comes to mind when I see her let alone hear her is: BORING. Bleeding Love is boring, she's gorgeous but yet she looks bored. She can sing alright but her voice sounds, well you know. I have no interest in hearing her stuff unless she can look and sound like she gives a damn.

I think Bleeding Love is a great song! I'm a bit taken aback by all the BL and LL hate I'm surprised because usually the main complaints I read over here on the org are about how crappy the music is today--the hip-hop sucks, the pop sucks, the R&B sucks, Mylie Cyrus, etc...But now here's something that's actually pretty decent but people think this one sucks as well? Oh well, different strokes I guess. BL didnt win me over at first either but its grown on me and I like it now. It's got a catchy tune and the lyrics have depth compared to alot of the crappy hip-hop and sappy pop songs that get over-played on the radio today.

I dont think Leona and her material are boring but perhaps understated. She's not all bold and brash and in your face like Britney, Beyonce, Mylie, Lil Kim, etc. She really reminds me of an old-school 1991 Mariah Carey. Her material is a bit low-key and has maturity and depth to it and overall very good IMHO. I havent seen her perform live yet but I like what I've heard so far and think she has a pretty good career ahead of her.

^ Kitty, I think your observation about her being understated rather than over the top like most of today's artists is an important one. Way different from boring.

The difference is actually refreshing.

NaughtyKitty said:

If it was released after the year 1999, it sucks. < Org philosophy





The org doesn't realise how much good music from today they miss out on because of their relentless bias against it all.



Me too. Kind of similar to Alicia, maybe.

Hmmm, interesting reaction.

To echo some sentiments here. LL has refinement and class. Just because she's not shoving her booty in your face or peeling off the clothes shouldn't make her bland. She's shy and reserved, but surely she's allowed the chance to grow as an artist? She's got a good voice and some original songs, enough to give her a chance to prove herself. Harumph, everybody seems to dismiss new artists on the first song/album these days. Plenty of enduring artists were orignally seen as flash in the pan.

I like my music a little more gritty so LL is not my cup of tea but I think that she has something to offer and is deserving of a chance. Like others I would like to see what her second album has to offer as the first one is very safe to please her record label.

theodore said:

Exactly.

She's a pitch perfect singer.

An excellent "technician".

Reasonably pretty, completely inoffensive.

...and pretty much will put you to sleep the first minute into a song

CalhounSq said:

Her material is so bland and overproduced I didn't even know the child could sing. Her voice is just hidden under layers of...stuff. I checked out a clip on Oprah where she was singing to playback, and since I could finally hear her over the instrumentation, I was "ohhhhh, she caaan sing " she's got a really wide range and perfect pitch, but DANG her songs put me to sleep! Breathing Love must've been on rotation I don't know how long over here and EVERY time I've heard it or seen the video I just change the channel, there was just never anything there in the material they're selecting for her that pulls me in and makes me go ga-ga for this girl. For me, Breathing Love is the musical equivilent to a bowl of Campbell's Tomato Soup, and I'd rather have some rough, fresh, chunky-ass gazacho... with HOT PEPPERS. I guess they need somebody to be heir apparent to the "international-ballad-singing-evening-gown-wearing-icon" crown though...so here we are with baby Leona, being poised and groomed to take over the throne

Ottensen said:

BLEEDING Love

purplesweat said:

that was actually good

purplesweat said:

AW HELL. BREATHING, BLEEDING, BEATING, BREEDING, YOU KNOW IT ALL SOUNDS THE SAME AFTER A WHILE! But you see what I'm saying, right??? That shit is so forgettable I can't even remember the title!!!! And this damned song is on the radio E-VER-Y day.

Whoo Lawd! I don't know which is more of a damned shame; me not being able to remember what the hell the girl's singing or folks writing such blandness we can't tell one piece of drivel phrase from another! I swear you have just inspired me to turn my radio off today and log back onto lastfm.com

"...keeeeep beatin', keeeep-keeep breedin' love, I keep neeedin, keeeep-keep feedin ..." Uh uh. They can keep that

InsatiableCream said:

Of course it was. Never listen to the Org.





Ok, everything's gonna be alright, just take a breath!

Maybe a dose of Leona's "blandness" would do you good?

purplesweat said:[quote]

InsatiableCream said:

ooooh no!

Ottensen said:

Keeeeep, keeep bleeeding blaaaanddd

Ottensen said:

not impressed i kept hearing all the hype about her so i bought the single at target for .99 the song is okay but she sounds like a mix of mariah carey and whitney houston not as strong as a singer as they are of course i want to hear something different
[Edited 4/12/08 7:34am]

Wow... how come nobody's impressed?

I thought she had potential. I saw her on Oprah, being introduced by Simon Cowell, who takes the credit for discovering her talents. She won a show he was a part of in London called "The X Factor"... I guess since American Idol has outdone the original "Pop Idol," they decided to change the name to go for something different.

He says she has one of the best voices he's heard in his entire career.

I like "Bleeding Love"... a lot.
In fact, I just checked something out. And it was co-written by my favorite artist before Prince and one of the members of OneRepublic ("Apologize"). I couldn't believe that they were responsible for THIS particular song.

I checked out the Full-CD listening party of it on AOL music and just finished listening to it.
It starts out with all kinds of songs that seemed a bit on the sad side, but I think I wasn't in the best of moods this morning when I woke up.
But there is some good stuff there. Her voice, I think, could give Prince's falsetto a run for its money, haha. At times, it goes so high and she can keep it up there for a few extra seconds than most artists.

I say she's like Alicia Keys without the keyboards because her chief instrument is her voice. And what a wonderful voice it is.

I'm going to recommend the album to my folks

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

And that right there says it all.

Can't I just dislike it and be left alone? It doesn't mean that I hate all of today's music- I've found the 00s to be a very rich decade musically.

Moonbeam said:

i can't stand it either Beamie. I heard her music for the first time today and their is no life in it to me.

Stymie said:

She's just a wobbit anyway!

Sorry, but if she didn't look like she does, she wouldn't have a record deal...I don't care who says otherwise. Let her have been ugly and her wide vocal range probably wouldn't have mattered. Unfortunately, that's how the music industry has been with the majority of female artists for decades, so I'm not picking on Ms. Lewis. It doesn't matter how good a female artist sounds, if she ain't nice to look at than she probably won't be getting very far in the biz; and while I think Leona is a talented singer, her voice isn't the only thing that's helping her sell records, nor is it any better than Mariah's, Whitney's, or Celine's.

I remember going to this bar a couple years ago and watching this girl who had a great voice and she was playing acoustic guitar on one song, piano on another, and violin on another and they were all songs she had written. How she looked didn't really matter to me, because she was very talented IMO, but unfortunately she doesn't have a record deal and it's probably because she isn't willing to let a record company control her music. For all I know, Leona could be another female artist who does what she's told which is probably why many see her as being bland. Hopefully, as she progresses in the music industry, she learns to outgrow that dependency shit and try doing her own thing. Just my

estelle81 said:

How do you explain Fuggie's baffling success?

And to these eyes, Leona isn't all that.

Moonbeam said:

@ Fuggie. Compare her to the other members of BEP and she's the pretty one...she's also the only girl and seems more than happy to parade her half-naked ass around the stage. Hell, I think Britney Spears looks like a grazing cow because her eyes are super far apart, but some people find her beautiful. They also think Britters has an amazing voice; I think those people are tone deaf and blind, but that's just me. Who isn't going to look at least decent when they are handed a professional make-up artist and good airbrushing? In all honesty, I think Leona kinda looks like Amel Larrieux, except Leona has green/hazel (?) eyes and Amel has a much better range than her. Just my opinion.





"For Real"



Oh, hell, now everytime I look at Leona, I'm going to see her as a Amel Larrieux knock-off...dammit

estelle81 said:

Other than light skin and long curly hair they look nothing alike to me.

MendesCity said:

Yep, I completely agree. Her voice isn't too bad, but she's boring. No presence or anything interesting about her IMO.