The Guardian drags Leona Lewis; deems her a 'flop'
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In a pop world of Mileys and Rihannas, Leona Lewis feels like that strait-laced older cousin who’d dob you in to your parents if she caught you smoking. Even attempts at injecting some personality into her performances mostly backfired, with this version of the excellent One More Sleep on The X Factor coming across like a breakdown at an office Christmas party.
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Early leaks to the tabloids from well-placed sources talked about how the title track is allegedly a stinging attack on Cowell and how free she is from the shackles of Syco (“I am breathing without you / I am somebody without you / I am free without you / I am stronger without you”). While the emotions are likely to be about another relationship altogether, the message it sends out to those who still connect Leona to The X Factor, and who don’t follow the ins and outs of a career, is one of “singer turns on the man who made her famous”. That alone is a huge hurdle to overcome when you’ve slipped from pop’s A-list.
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Haunting the whole scenario, however, is the simple fact that Fire Under My Feet isn’t strong enough to make its mark in today’s overcrowded pop market. According to the website Compare My Radio, BBC Radio 1 have only played it twice in the past month, while YouTube views for the video are under 2m. It’s also hard to shake the fact that it sounded better when Adele did it as Rolling in the Deep a few years ago. Still, at least we’ll always have Bleeding Love.
In a pop world of Mileys and Rihannas, Leona Lewis feels like that strait-laced older cousin who’d dob you in to your parents if she caught you smoking.
This is true. But the reason she is "flopping" is because of how unbelievably bad her career has been managed post-Spirit.
This is true. But the reason she is "flopping" is because of how unbelievably bad her career has been managed post-Spirit.
Exactly. It's one of the biggest travesties in music recently. Her voice is so good and she really deserves a lot more than this. Having said that, she is partly to blame as she didn't have the initiative to take control herself. She just sat back and let them murder her career.
How can anyone dislike Leona like that, she's harmless.
