WTF WAS THAT???

I listen to the firwst verse and Im just not feeling ti too much…maybe if I listen to it again and agian and again..just maybe

not a fan. i’ve also heard her being called the crossbreed between whitney and mariah- mariah’s range and whitney’s power. it’s kind of true actually but still she doesn’t amaze me. they did make her look good here though. usually she looks like a horse but she looks beautiful here. she might make it big here

so commercialized its sickening

In my Simon (of American Idol voice). I found it quit boring and her voice forgettable. It’s just not good enough.

I just wanted to be #4 for the first time!

Uhmmm…not feelin it. Sounds like secretarial pool office music. I don’t like Mariah enuf to even bother with the second generation re-hash. NEXT!

I like her voice.She did a nice demo of “Loving You” but I’m not loving this song.

She sounds very good. But why does every new black woman that comes out have to be the next Beyonce, Mary J, or Mariah. Why do people have to compare one with the other. Why is it that people need to compare and put black women against each other. Its always the new Mariah, or the new Beyonce. They don’t do that to the successful white singers like Christina Aguilara etc.

@ #5:

Actually Simon Cowell endorses her. He discovered Leona on his show X-Factor in the UK and thinks she’s the best thing since sliced bread! And Leona had the number 1 album of 2007 in the UK. Perhaps if she showed her body more, writhed around like a two bit “video vixen”, she will be accepted in the US.

#10, I think you missed my point. I’m not saying Simon said anything about her, I’m saying in my Simon Cowell voice…not good enough.

leona lewis will never be the next beyonce she look like a horse she does not have any power when she is singing you will never find any one like beyonce

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She is so beautiful!

like..a natural beauty

And the song is lovely too

its a power balled
you gotta listen to it a couple times

but her voice is just stunning

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shes deff gona go far

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she do sound like mariah and has weave like b

She favors Junree Smollett.

Very pretty girl, very exotic, i think she should have chosen a different song to show off her vocals more…i didnt really like the beat to the song either, sounds kind of early 90’s to me. nice voice though

I can’t believe “her” name is being brought up!No, she won’t be the next because she not shaking her ass all over stage.As much as I love her, Leona voice has more range.Can we go a day without “her?”

I dont like this chick. I didnt like the original video/song already too.
the beat of the song sounds extremly poor and cheaply done :S
Cant understand why this is such a huge success allover europe.

don’t really like the song or her…no hate tho

being british im technically not allowed to criticise her however i will

the uk has never had a big diva so there basically trying to mak leona the next whitney/mariah/beyonce. although she can sing, her voice isnt that strong and she’s a very naive (but nice) girl. she comes across very insecure-in the music biz u have to be thick skinned and leona is as thin skinned as they come.

the uk video which was in fact shot in LA is better, i dont know y they wasted time re-doing the video and its much worse than the old one.

leona’s album is also extremely boring like the same song over and over again, just ballads. if she wants to be the next mariah she needs to make up her own image, her own sound and be distinctive. how are u gonna be a star when u sound like everyone else out there? did diana ross sound like tina? no did bey sound like mariah? no. i also think she lets her label push her around alot, theyre trying to copy the mariah formula.

i love this song. i tend to like a lot of the music they hear over there….so i like it.

SHE’S SOOO BEAUTIFUL !!!

The song was written and produced by Ryan Tedder (the one republic frontman). Not really sure why you dont like the song, maybe because shes not american??

If you want to hear Leona at her best, listen to her cover of Snow Patrol’s run, you’ll find it on youtube. Its incredible.

DO you Leona! nice classy talented sister! Uk stand up!!!!!!!

#10 your killing me i was laughing soo hard!

Quote”Perhaps if she showed her body more, writhed around like a two bit “video vixen”, she will be accepted in the US.”

THIS SONG IS NOT BAD!I ACTUALLY LIKE IT …. BUT SHE ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE SHE IS IN PAIN!

I am also British and here is my opinion on Leona…

I didn’t personally like the song at first but after a few listens it grows!!! Leona can sing her ass off, theres no doubt there but i dont think she is the next Mariah, Whitney or Beyonce. Leona sings quite weak on her verses but she can belt the fuck out of the end. She doesnt have the skill of Beyonce nor the range of Mariah. I think most girls can hit the notes Leona hits… they’re nothing amazing.

I think she looks very beautiful in this video. Wirh Simon Cowell on her side she cant go wrong.

I think If Leona would’ve released this song off her own back without the X Factor hype she would go un-noticed like the rest of the UK power vocalists like

Beverly Knight or
Cleo (EX-Cleopatra) (www.myspace.com/lovecleo)

I wish all the luck, she’s repping the UK and doing a good job too!

I don’t know how big she is going to be over here cause we already have mariah over here so it is going to be alil hard for her to break over here . The first video they shot was better than this though but I guess I can understand why they gave her a new video. She is going to have to come harder over here than that song though. I guess depending on her promo and how the public takes to her we will see if she makes it .

She’s a beautiful girl with a beautiful voice. But the song is over the top and dated. It does remind me of early MC. Back when Tommy Mattola had control of her image and made her put out an album a year. But I prefer the soulful, hip-hop sampling Mariah myself (think Butterfly, Daydream and TEOM). But I still wish Leona the best. The girl can sing and she deserved her record contract. Even if her music isn’t my cup of tea.

Kinda boring. She is pretty though, I’ll give her that. Still boring.

Mariah is black and Leona Lewis is a whitey. Advantage Mariah.

GOT DAMN HER NOSE IS HUGE AS FVCK! She need to get a nose job! DAMN!

That song fvckin sucked! How is she gonna be the next Mariah or whoever when her music is shit? She might as well get like Ashanti & Rihanna and start sucking the dongs of popular artists if she wants to have a career.

“Bleeding LOOVVE” LMAO! What kinda stupid shit is this? I know Brian has to love this song.

The chick has beautiful EYES, but her face looks kinda MANish. As far as her singing, it’s OK…

the song is mad old now lol she should of release another song !!!!!!!!!!..and the video is ..bad ..but i wish her luck i love her voice !!!!!!!!!!!!

Only listened to a few seconds…I find her boring…it’s just that I prefer the old Mariah records…a newage one, not so much…
her boyfriend is hot, though and she doesn’t “need” a nose job…nobody “needs” a nose job…SMH
Back to Mariah, anybody remember “Breakdown” with Bone, Thugs, & Harmony? I could not believe how that song jammed…for the first couple of weeks after it premiered, I would watch it stone still and silent…crazy, but I just thought Mariah’s voice was out of this world…

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29. Leona is mixed race just like mariah

fool

and i dont know why every1 is tryin 2 compare her and talk about llooks

open your minds

talk about the music

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UM, @ 29. I think its obvious, both of mixed heritage.

As far as the video. I think they should have left the other one, though I did like the way the video ended very much. Her CD is a bit boring, but there is no denying she has some power vocals. She has some staying power, but I don’t think we’ll get to see that until the next CD. Everybody that comes out of American Idol, Ex-Factor, whatever, all their first CDs sound exactly the same. It isn’t until the second CD, that we get their real personalities in their music. Give her some time. Support her. she’s going to get nothing but better.

By the way, shouldn’t it be TRL and not TLR?

BTW, she does sing very well….BUT like I said, she is NOT beautiful imo!!!!

i also think the other video was better

shes going to be a star

dont forget shes only 20

lol @ Sizzle and the simon Cowel joke.
Stop comparing our black female singers with one another

Some people really have a lot of self hate within themselves. Now with that being said #30 SHUT THE HELL UP!

@29 Leona’s dad is Afro- Guyanese and her mom is Anglo-Welsh (Irish & Italian) so shes half black and half white just like Mariah.

Leona “Cyrano De Bergerac” Lewis is wack…she can have her white man, nasty whore.

I LOVE Leona, already bought this album from Amazon UK. Am MAAAAD happy about the US release!! Go Leona!!!!

HOW DARE ANYONE COMPARE THIS CHICK TO MARIAH OR BEYONCE.

She has a good voice and the song is ok but its just too pop

She’s hot.

That is all.

Easy, people. She’s of mixed heritage, which xplains the nose and mouth, I guess. Why does everybody have to be all perfect looking and shyt?

Back to the critique. The song sounds like something that would be played on one of those Wal-Mart approved e-z listening stations you listen to while you shop for a can opener or some shyt. Straight up boring and wack as f*ck.

The girl does have a voice, though. Get some fly-ass producers and then I’ll see what she’s working with.

@ #10 SHANAYNAY

You’re right about that. If ma took off her clothes and humped a pole with a shoe lace thong, she would’ve got some BET play.

She has a very very very nice sound and voice quality. She’s gonna hit big. She looks better since the nose job thank god. I think she’s a big talent.

Lets put things into perspective. Anyone raised or who has lived in England know that when they break artists there, they do not pigeon hole them into RnB or make them a black or white artist as it is a very diverse market, unless the artist goes that route intentionally. In America, artists like Christian Millian, Mya and Latoya are geared towards the urban (read: black) market.

Simon cowell just brought out a Mariah(esque) type singer with instant crossover appeal. Even Destiny’s Child had to work her way up from BET with songs like “no no no” and “Bills bills bills”.

In America, people try to divide and conquer so much because they have no mind of their own. Just because she is light skinned weaved out and a singer the first thing people do is compare her to Beyonce. Although in our defense here in America Simon Cowell did call her on the “x factor” the British Beyonce. But he set her up for too much of a fall because too many people (especially some obvious stans on CL) love Beyonce and ALL she has achieved.

Leona is a fresh new artist with a nice voice trying to make it.

How about cutting her some slack and stop cutting her down already….because some of you wouldn;t dare put your real pictures up here as avatars because people would probably boycott this site or Brian, tianna or Angela would delete your friggin postings!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So stop the hating it is the core reason we cannot move forward we are always tearing each other down and not just appreciating a new kid on the block. But how many of you assholes jump up and dance to “crank that”…. when it comes on?

Morons……………….

her voice seems like a mixture of mariah, corrine bailey rae, alicia keys, and nicole scherzinger…and somebody else i can’t think of right now. celine? lee-anne rimes?
maybe because the sound quality is crappy.

i think she has a really good voice.

i don’t see any comparison between leona and beyonce.
and thats the first and last time i’ll ever mention those two names in the same topic

to me they are two totally different artists with similar hair styles.

This song is quite kibbles and bits, in other words it’s gone to the dogs. Not feeling it, I was looking for her to be a stand out artist, maybe she could with it later! Another artist to check from the UK is Lemar.

personally, i love this song. but i think the UK version of the video is MUCH better. it reflects the song more.

it’s definitely something that’ll have to grow on people in the U.S. b/c i downloaded it months ago & then, i thought it was crap.
it needs time.

& i think she’s neither a Mariah nor a Whitney. i don’t hear them in her range. she didn’t belt that much.

I think the ability she has with her voice was shown better in her performances on X-Factor.
The song is good, and it grows on you, and she sings it well, but the true potential of her voice isn’t shown on it, or her album.

That girl Leona can blow……..

Check this link out… http://youtube.com/watch?v=vbuvLJnAysM

Just had to compare her to “Beeyotchce”…SMDH

She’s gorgeous, her music is nice, but I need to hear more. I can’t judge by this one song.

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She actually did that song some justice ….unlike the other so many 100s of people that go on to those types of shows and ruin it with the first word they try to sing. People always get me mad when they try to sing “I will always love you” in the style of Whitney, but I’ll make an acception for Leona.

Pretty girl. But do not see the big deal about the song. It is okay. Nice voice.

@56… I htought she did a great job as well it’s hard to sing Whitney….

pardon my typo “Thought”

Always loved the song. She’s talented and has a nice range. The UK video of this song was much better.

Next!! Couldn’t get through the first minute!

What a voice! That song is excellent! The US def needs a singer like that.

She is beautiful and the song is going to be a smash. Mark my words:She’s going to be a big star. Her kind of talent doesn’t even require much promotion. I wasn’t expecting to like it, but she blew me completely away. Her voice is so rich, controlled and versatile. She obviously has great range.

I’m so excited about this chick! Wish her the best.

Vocally she is no joke, I was ridin with Jennifer Hudson for the New Artist Of the Year but IDK about all that now! Leonna is no joke!

I love this song and Leona is gorgeous, although i like the UK video a lot better

Stop looking past this chicks enormous beak! Her boogers are the size of baseballs

Dang why i cant get my comments to post?

Let me find out I’m banned from CL….lol

#36 I was thinking the same thing. Looks like we need to proof read next time.

The song is ALRIGHT. Doesn’t have my attention though

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dj
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
she do sound like mariah and has weave like b

SHE DOES NOT HAVE A WEAVE! THAT IS HER OWN HAIR. THAT IS ONE THING SHE HAS OVER BEY. LOL
THAT IS HER NATURAL HAIR TEXTURE…..ALTHOUGH THE COLOR PROBABLY IS NOT NATURAL.

I am not feeling her at all! Being compared to Beyonce & Mariah is a little too much. I don’t understand how any one could give her that much credit. The song was wack and so was the video. I give her props for trying….but i would suggest that she keeps her ass in the UK.

I like the UK video. I like the song.. Its kind of poppish tho.

Stop it you yanks you want to hear the same music the likes of soul jah boy and watch the same videos of girls shaking their asses .She aint no Mariah Carey thats her voice there is nothing she can do .Simon Cowell is right he said Carey Underwood would sell more albums than any other american idol , he is right about this girl she is way better than Rihanna ,Shakira ,Fergie.,kelly Rowland .and J.lo

At times you yanks underrate you good singers like Fantasia .jill Scott, Heather Headley ,Music Soul child

for your info that song is a hit you tube

I hope she got better singles tho!

COSIGN @ 49 NOVA

SHE HAS IT GOING ON BUT PEOPLE JUST WANT TO FIND SOMETHING WRONG WITH HER. SHE IS BEAUTIFUL. SHE IS EXOTIC. SHE CAN SING NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE SONG OR WHO YOU COMPARE HER TO. SHE IS TRYING TO MAKE HER CAREER WORK. PEOPLE LOVE TO TEAR PEOPLE DOWN. DANG! I BET SOME OF YOU WOULD LOVE HER IF SHE HAD DATED TONS OF GUYS, GOT DUMPED OVER AND OVER. MARRIED 2 OR 3 TIMES AND DIVORCED WITH 8 CHILDREN. SHE HAS AN INNOCENCE ABOUT HERSELF. SHE IS NOT GOING OUT “YET” LOOKING LIKE A HOOKER LIKE MARIAH OR GETTING KNOCKED UP BY HER BOYTOY BECAUSE ALL ELSE HAS FAILED IN HER LOVE LIFE. IT IS SO REFRESHING TO SEE A LOVELY YOUNG WOMAN THAT IS VERY SWEET AND SEEMS TO WANT TO REALLY DO SOMETHING GOOD AND WANTS TO SING JUST BECAUSE SHE LOVES TO GET A BREAK. GIVE THE GIRL A BREAK AND SHOW SOME SUPPORT. HOW HARD IS IT TO JUST SAY GOOD LUCK TO HER AND BE DONE!
She has it going on but people just want to find something wrong with her.
She is beautiful. She is exotic. She is trying to make it happen. Give the girl a chance to show what the good Lord gave her. People love to tear people down. There is nothing wrong with this girl. Dang! She is just starting out. I bet some of you would like her is she went through a ton of men like Halle, 2 failed

OOOPS SORRY FOR MY EXTRA TYPOS AT THE END THERE. LOL

I have to agree with nova @ 49 there are 2 many hypocrites out there……..2 much hate.