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| Spirit | 
 enlarge | Artist: Leona Lewis
Label: J-Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.97
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Avg. Customer Rating:  180 reviews
Sales Rank: 53
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 702554
UPC: 886970255424
EAN: 8869702554240
ASIN: B0012TBGYC
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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 More Corporate Music - bleah April 17, 2008
24 out of 34 found this review helpful
Of course Clive and Cowell are championing her - they paid for her, they signed her, they brought in anyone who has sold anything lately to dream up hooks and sounds and pumped up the drum machines. More whining and emoting and warbling and there is nothing new here. Jewel has a better voice and Avril rocks harder and both of them have more sincere, serious or fun lyrics.
This music is homogenized and streamlined for mass appeal. She'll be a model full time before too long selling perfume, and good for her for the success (seriously - she's working the system). But people you are being manipulated by mega corporations and this is their product and their vision (not hers) for mass appeal music that will sell the most.
No Simon it's not hard to crack the US Charts when you have the entire industry from print to news and television and all the top dogs and entertainment outlets promoting and playing the music over and over and over again. It's a formula my young friends and there are a lot more original artists out there that deserve your hard earned dollars. It's a profit driven industry and big corporate media giants have decided this is the safest way to spend their investment dollars. Explore the unknowns and take a pass on whatever the coordinated media conglomerates are pushing on you.
It's all an effort to extract the most amount of money out of the most amount of people and for one product. It has nothing to do with honesty, originality or well played or well written lyrics, songs and music. It has nothing to do with art and artists and everything to do with mass media conglomeration, advertising, and hype.
Find a local college radio station to hear the real music before big business takes over all the airways - or hit the search button on your satellite radio and explore everything. Make it your own not what someone else tells you is cool. If the music speaks to you and is honest, not gimmicky or aimed at the lowest common denominator go for it enjoy it and see them live in a small club. That's the real grass roots music scene. Always has been always will be. Think for yourself. This is just all marketing based on product testing and past unit sales generated by coordinated hype in an effort to separate you from your money as quickly as possible. There's no integrity here the sounds from this disc are about money.
 Leona has arrived April 8, 2008
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
Leona Lewis has arrived, her cd Spirit has made it to the US for all to hear. She has a voice ,between Mariah and Toni Braxton all in one. What a gem to own. Tracks: Bleeding Love, Better In time, I Will Be, I'm You, Forgive Me, Misses Glass, Angel, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Yesterday, Whatever It Takes, Take A Bow, UK bonus : Footprints In The Sand and Here I am .
Im dedicating the songs Bleeding Love, I Will Be to my husband, To my special friend for life the songs Better In Time, Yesterday. To my lord and savior above Footprints In the Sand for guiding me through the good and bad times, thank you for always being there for me. Thanks Leona for the magic and sincere faith in your music. You are a star already for the world.
 Way, Way, Way Overrated April 24, 2008
20 out of 37 found this review helpful
My exposure to Leona Lewis so far has been limited to listening to song samples of this album and seeing her live performance on the April 23rd American Idol results show. After being praised to the skies by Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell, Leona sang "Bleeding Love," which was at best mediocre and at worst boring. Shortly thereafter, AI contestants Carly Smithson and Syesha Mercado sang their songs from the previous night. Needless to say, there was no comparison. Both Smithson and Mercado blew Leona Lewis out of the water performance-wise. I would venture to say, then, that Leona Lewis's appeal centers primarily on how she looks. She can sing, but it's nothing that I haven't heard before. It is always interesting to be able to compare singers side by side when they perform together live. You can sound great on your album, but if you can't bring it live, then you can't bring it.
And does anyone else think that Leona Lewis bears an uncanny resemblance to Simon Cowell's girlfriend Terri Seymour, minus a few years? :-)
Good, but "over-balladed" May 8, 2008
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is a strong debut album from X-Factor winner Leona Lewis, the only potential problems being a surfeit of ballads, and a large dose of overexposure. The British born singer/songwriter is of Guyanese/Welsh parentage, and was no stranger to performing before catching the eye of Simon Cowell, who moved heaven, earth and Clive Davis to ensure that this album had all the backing it needed.
Even before the album was released, she already had a hit single with her version of the Kelly Clarkson song "A Moment Like This", which can be found as a bonus on the UK version of the album. Please note that the track listing for the UK Version is different to the US and Canadian releases. The songs "Forgive Me" (produced by Akon) and "Misses Glass" on this version take the place of "Homeless" (a slow R&B ballad) and "The Best You Never Had" (a slightly faster ballad).
Songs of interest are "Bleeding Love", the first single from the album; "Better in Time", the second single (pop/R&B) which reminds me of Alicia Keys "No One"; "I Will Be", a cover of the Avril Lavigne song; "Yesterday", a pop/R&B track where she sounds like Mariah Carey; "Take A Bow", a radio-friendly R&B track; and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", a cover of the Roberta Flack hit written by Ewan MacColl. Lewis also co-wrote the songs "Whatever It Takes", a mid-tempo R&B track, and "Here I Am", a pop ballad.
Special mention should be made of the powerful and emotional ballad "Footprints in the Sand" inspired by the famous poem by Mary Stevenson, which ends:
The Lord replied
"The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand,
Is when I carried you."
Undoubtedly talented, strikingly photogenic, and with a lovely voice, it seems a bit early for all the comparisons to Mariah Carey and early Whitney Houston, but I do believe that we'll be hearing a lot more from Leona Lewis.
Amanda Richards, May 8, 2008
Music for people who think that Celine Dion's last cd was too "edgy" April 11, 2008
19 out of 26 found this review helpful
Wow, this is unspeakably bland. Don't get me wrong, she can sing. And the production is impeccable. And that's really it. This is a throwback to the early 90s when Michael Bolton, Phil Collins, and Gloria Estefan ruled easy listening. That's what this is...really, really, REALLY EAZZZZYYYY Listening. Good Lord, she makes Natasha Bedingfield sound like Janis Joplin by comparison.
I'm sure that in a few years, LL will probably decide that she wants to
"shake up her image" and will put out an lp with more of a "party vibe".
But that will come only after she's milked her exotic looks for all the beauty, jeans and automobile endorsement cashs she can get. Heck, I'll buy one for my grandma, who still thinks music went to hell when "hippies like The Carpenters" started ruining things.
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