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[edit] Spirit

[edit] History

In December 2006, Lewis won the third series of British reality singing contest, The X Factor, her prize being a £1 million recording contract with Sony BMG, of which Simon Cowell is an A&R executive.[1] Cowell also mentored Lewis on the show. During the live final, Lewis duetted with Gary Barlow of band Take That, who told Cowell, "This girl is probably fifty times better than any other contestant you have ever had, so you have a big responsibility to make the right record with her."[2] Cowell admits that Barlow's words "rang in his ears", and thus the decision was made for a debut album not to be rushed out, as he wanted an "incredible record" of original material, which he believed could not be done in less than a year.[3] Lewis also wanted a high quality album that would not be made quickly and that she could feel proud of.[4] She wanted to be involved in the writing process, and says that Cowell allowed her to do so as it was "her album".[5] Cowell told Lewis that he did not care if the album took three years to make, he wanted to get it right.[6]

On 25 April 2007, a press release was sent out revealing that Cowell and Clive Davis, chairman and CEO of J Records, would work together in a first-of-its-kind partnership on both the song and producer selection for the album.[7] Writing began in London with Steve Mac and then moved on to Atlanta, Georgia, Los Angeles and Miami, Florida.[8] Lewis also performed a showcase for several American music executives at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.[9]

The album was delayed due to Lewis suffering from tonsilitis and waiting for producers to become available.[10][11] It was said to have a September 2007 deadline,[11] but was finally released in November 2007 (see release history). Cowell stood by his earlier comments on the time it took to release the album, saying:

“ We could have gone into the studio for a month, made the record quick, thrown it out. It would have been the wrong thing to do. We made a very public commitment to Leona.[12] ”

Lewis agreed, saying:

“ I know some people are asking, 'Where has she gone?' But I wanted everyone who has supported and worked with me to have an album they're proud of, one that is credible and one with songs that people can connect to. I'm working hard to make sure that I'm around for a long time to come. It's going to surprise people.[8] ”

[edit] Songwriting and production

Lewis recorded and wrote the album in several locations, the first being London, England, where she worked with Steve Mac,[8] who produced the songs "Homeless" and "Footprints in the Sand".[13] "Footprints in the Sand" was written by Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Richard Page[14] and Simon Cowell.[13] It was influenced by the poem "Footprints". "Homeless" is a song written by Jörgen Elofsson, previously recorded by Swedish singer Darin.[15]

Most of the songs were recorded in Los Angeles, California. There, Lewis teamed up with OneRepublic singer Ryan Tedder, with whom she recorded two songs, "Bleeding Love" and "Take a Bow". "Bleeding Love", the first song confirmed to be appearing on the album, was written by Tedder and Jesse McCartney and produced by Tedder.[16] "Take a Bow" was written and produced by Tedder, Louis Biancaniello, Wayne Wilkins, Sam Watters[17] and The Runaways.[13] Watters, Biancaniello and The Runaways also wrote "Yesterday", with Jordan Omley, Michael Mani, The Jam, and Nina Woodford.[13] "Better in Time" was also recorded in Los Angeles with producer J. R. Rotem, who wrote the song along with Andrea Martin.[13] Lewis also co-wrote "Here I Am" with Walter Afanasieff and Brett James in LA.[13][3] "I Will Be" is a cover of an Avril Lavigne song, written by Lavigne, Dr. Luke and Max Martin,[13] that was released as an iTunes bonus track and on the special edition of her album The Best Damn Thing.[15] "The Best You Never Had", which was written and produced by Billy Steinberg and Josh Alexander,[18] was also recorded in LA.

In Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis worked with producers Alonzo "Novel" Stevenson and Dallas Austin[8][3] on the song "Whatever It Takes", which Lewis co-wrote together with Novel and Tony Reyes.[13] "I'm You" was recorded in Atlanta with Ne-Yo,[19] who provided backing vocals.[20] "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", a cover of the Ewan MacColl song, was recorded in both Atlanta and Los Angeles. It was produced by Wayne Wilkins, Sam Watters, Louis Biancaniello and The Runaways.[13]

In Miami, Florida, Lewis worked with Salaam Remi,[8][3] and "Forgiveness" was recorded. It was written by Lewis, Remi and Kara DioGuardi, but was chosen as the B-side to the single "Bleeding Love" rather than an album track. "Angel", a Stargate production, was written by Stargate and Johnta Austin, and recorded in New York.[13]

Lewis's debut single, a cover of Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment like This", is included as a bonus track on releases in the UK and Ireland. The U.S. release of the album will feature two songs recorded in 2008: "Forgive Me", which was written by Akon, and "Misses Glass" written by Madd Scientist and RockCity.[21]

[edit] Style and lyrical content

Lewis described the album's style as "classic songs with a contemporary edge," containing R&B and "fresh pop" styles, ballads and "soulful up-tempo numbers".[21][8] It has an American style,[22] with some electronic 1980s sounds. However, the songs are not beat-driven or following the latest trends, but are songs that can be performed acoustically.[8]

In addition to this, the song "Homeless" has been described as "a moody piano-heavy trembler"[23] and a "haunting, blues-style ballad".[24] "Take a Bow" has been described as starting with an "ice-cool synth riff" and having "big, crunchy beats and powerhouse chorus".[24] Yesterday has been described as "a smoochy R&B slow jam",[23] and "Whatever It Takes" has been described as a "chipper slice of soul-pop, anchored by a surprisingly bone-shaking beat".[23] "I'm You" features "delicate harps, echoey vocals and skittering beats".[24]

Cowell has commented that the album is as good as early Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston.[25]

Commenting on the albums lyrics, Lewis said: "[They] reflect things that I'm really passionate about. I have to be able to put myself in the song for it to ring true to me. If it doesn't ring true to me, it's not going to be believable to anyone else."[21]

[edit] Singles

"Bleeding Love" was released as the album's lead single, and went to number one in the singles charts of the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Norway Austria, the Netherlands, Bulgaria[26] and Poland.[27] In the UK, it was the biggest selling single of 2007,[28] and won the award for The Record of the Year.[29]

The album's second single will a double A-side, featuring "Better in Time" and "Footprints in the Sand". It is to be released in March 2008 in aid of the charity Sport Relief.[30][31]

Syco managing director, Sonny Takhar, stated that they have at least five singles from the record, and that "every track is a potential single — we really are spoiled for choice."[32]

[edit] Personnel

  • Ryan 'Alias' Tedder – production, engineering, arrangement, programming
  • Nate Hertweck – assistant engineering
  • Craig Durrance – assistant engineering
  • Phil Tan – mixing
  • Dallas Austin – production
  • Novel – producer, programming
  • Carlton Lynn – recording, mixing
  • Eddie Horst – string arrangement
  • Fonzi Thornton – vocal contractor
  • Kimberley L. Smith – project coordination
  • Steve Mac – production, arrangement
  • Chris Laws – recording, Pro Tools editing
  • Daniel Pursey – recording
  • J. R. Rotem – production, arrangement
  • Greg Ogan – recording
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing
  • Louis Biancaniello – production, programming, recording, mixing
  • Sam Watters – production
  • The Runaways – production, recording, mixing
  • Michael Mani – production
  • Jordon Omley – production
  • The Jam – production
  • Wayne Wilkins – production, programming, recording, mixing
  • Randy Winem – assistant recording
  • Dr. Luke – production
  • Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
  • Doug McKean – engineering
  • Rob Smith – engineering
  • Seth Waldmann – engineering
  • Keith Gretlein – engineering
  • Josh Wilbur – engineering
  • Tom Syrowski – engineering
  • Tatiana Gottwald – engineering, assistant
  • Chris Soper – engineering
  • Sam Holland – engineering
  • Chris Holmes – engineering
  • Rouble Kapoor – engineering
  • Wesley Seidman – engineering
  • Janne Hansson – engineering
  • Emily Wright – engineering
  • Markus Dextegen – engineering
  • John Adams – assistant
  • James Ingram – assistant
  • Leon Pendarvis – strings conducting, strings arrangment

[edit] Recording studios

  • Mansfield Studios, Los Angeles, California
  • Record Plant, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  • Encore, Burbank, California
  • DARP Studios, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Battery Studios, New York City, New York
  • Doppler Studios, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Rokstone Studios, London, England
  • Air Lyndhurst Studios, London, England
  • Chalice Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California
  • The Jam Studios, Los Angeles, California
  • Homeside 13 Studio, Novato, California
  • Conway Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California
  • Henson Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California
  • Dr. Luke's, New York City, New York
  • Opra Music and Oceanway, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  • Westlake Recording Studios, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Atlantis Studios, Stockholm, Sweden

[edit] Reviews

[edit] Other Leona stuff

[edit] Bleeding Love charts (no airplay)

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Irish Singles Chart[33] 1
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[33] 1
UK Singles Chart[33] 1
Chart (2008) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[33] 1
Austrian Ö3 Top 40 Singles Chart[33] 1
Belgian Ultratop 50 (Flanders)[34] 1
Belgian Ultratop 40 (Wallonia)[34] 14
Bulgarian National Top 40[33] 1
Canadian Hot 100[35] 24
Danish Singles Chart[33] 2
Dutch Single Top 100[36] 1
European Hot 100 Singles[37] 1
Finnish Singles Chart[33] 2
German Top100 Singles[33] 1
Greek Singles Chart[38] 8
Italian Singles Chart[39] 2
Norwegian VG-lista[33] 1
Polish National Top 50[40] 1
Spanish Los 40 Principales[41] 13
Swedish Singles Chart[33] 2
Swiss Singles Top 100[33] 1
Taiwan Top 10[42] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[43] 41
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[43] 42
United World Chart[33] 3

[edit] And just the airplay...

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Croatian Airplay Chart[44] 1
Cypriot Airplay Chart[45] 3
Latvian Airplay Top 50[46] 1
Luxembourgian Airplay Chart[47] 1
Maltese Airplay Chart[45] 2
Romanian Top 100[48] 3
Slovenian Airplay Chart[45] 1
Chart (2008) Peak
position
Czech Airplay Top100[49] 12
Estonian Airplay Chart[50] 1
French Airplay Chart[51] 2
Hungarian Airplay Chart[52] 26
Lithuanian Airplay Top 60[53] 1
Philippines Airplay Chart[54] 1
Russian Top 100 Airplay Chart[55] 3
Singapore Airplay Chart[56] 3
Slovak Airplay Chart[57] 1

[edit] Reviews by song

  • ‘Bleeding Love’ is an 80s throwback that even Mariah wouldn't record these days.[1]
  • The first official single off of Spirit is Bleeding Love written and produced by Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder. The song is a huge international hit. The song features pulsating drums over a solid vocal performance. The drums make the song sound a little dated though. The song is fairly solid featuring numerous nicely arranged vocal harmonies.[2]
  • Bleeding Love typifing the high quality of songs[3]
  • First single proper, "Bleeding Love", is far and away the most sophisticated and catchy song here[4]
  • Bleeding Love is a powerful track with a heartfelt vocal, doleful organ and satisfying conceit – it already sounds like a classic.[5]
  • 'Bleeding Love', the No 1 single, has its charms. Coronary pathologists will be amused by the lyrics ('My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing/You cut me open and I keep bleeding, keep bleeding love'), but - like Lewis herself - it is hard to hate.[6]
  • ``Bleeding Love is a catchy and fascinating track,[7]
  • The stand-out remains smash hit and album opener 'Bleeding Love', which sets up expectations the remaining songs simply can't live up to.[8]
  • The highlight, however, is current number one single Bleeding Love, whose sparse drumbeat and edgy lyrics inject what will be a very successful album with some much-needed grit.[9]
  • The hit Bleeding Love is brilliant soul music with a joyous and propulsive rhythm track – Queen’s We Will Rock You with a grimebeat and Leona’s ecstatic chant on top.[10]


  • Angel is produced by proven hit-makers StarGate. The song sounds eerily similar to other StarGate produced tracks like Beyonce's Irreplaceable. The song is fairly solid and will be a good song to crossover into the pop-R&B mainstream..[11]
  • Take the lyrics to Angel: “When we make love it’s overwhelming, I just touch the heavens, you’re an angel.” Jesus, even Karen Carpenter would’ve gagged at that one.[12]


  • The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is a cover of a popular song from the 1950's. It has been covered by artists ranging from Roberta Flack to Celine Dion. The song showcases Leona's very distinctive vocals. The song primarily sticks in Leona's lower register. She could work on singing down there more as the song was not that strong when it was that low.[13]
  • Even a cover of the sublime The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (popularised by Roberta Flack) is delivered with heart-wrenching emotion and sincerity by Lewis, doing the original the justice it deserves.[14]


  • And the attempts at skittering r'n'b beats on tracks like "The Best You Never Had" [...] are also fairly middle-of-the-road.[15]
  • The Best You Never Had is very reminiscent of JoJo's hit single Too Little Too Late which makes sense because both tracks were produced by Josh Alexander. The song is fairly solid and one of the catchiest songs on the disc.[16]


  • And the attempts at skittering r'n'b beats on tracks like [...] the Ne-Yo- produced "I'm You" are also fairly middle-of-the-road.[17]


  • "Whatever it Takes" has singalong potential[18]
  • Whatever It Takes is produced by Dallas Austin. The song is very awkward sounding not really fitting into any genre. The song is not one of the standout tracks on the album.

[19]

  • Whatever it Takes puts “mid-dle of the road” into mid-tempo[20]
  • Not even Dallas Austin - who has worked with Sugababes - can make 'Whatever It Takes' any fun.[21]
  • a nod to Timbaland with Whatever It Takes[22]


  • Only on the Leona co-written "Here I Am" do we get a glimpse of the Hackney girl herself, thrown into the pop machine: "This is a crazy world/These can be lonely days.../Who can you really trust"[23]
  • Lewis presents her R&B style ballads such as ``Here I Am reminiscent of ``Hero by Mariah Carey.[24]


  • Take A Bow is definitely Leona's attempt at Cry Me A River. The song is almost a mimicry of the song initially but then builds goes into a nice piano breakdown which saves the song.[25]
  • "Take a Bow" is a slice of synthy melodrama[26]
  • Overblown diva attack Take a Bow is totally Euro with a half-stolen synth loop from Justin Timberlake’s My Love but it’s also a bit brilliant.[27]
  • Only one - 'Take a Bow' - feels like it is of the 21st century, with its daring machine-made pan pipes.[28]
  • Take a Bow provides a Timbaland-style urban twist on things which works well too.[29]


  • I Will Be is written and produced by Avril Lavigne, Dr. Luke and Max Martin. The track appears as a bonus track on Avril's latest album. The song is a good pop song and definitely one of the best songs on the album.[30]
  • but it’s when the onus is taken from the beats and glossy production trappings and placed on her voice alone – such as Homeless and the more epic I Will Be – that her uniqueness is allowed to shine.[31]
  • Avril Lavigne has written one of the other good songs on here, I Will Be. Far from being period-powered pop, it’s pure Shania Twain, which is quite a good thing – honestly.[32]
  • Equally impressive, 'I Will Be' has moments where Lewis sounds like a soulful Lavigne,[33]
  • There is quite a range from I Will Be with moments of American Idol's Carrie Underwood[34]
  • She deserves better than the standard soaring songbird part of I Will Be, for instance. But even there Leona’s sublime phrasing gets into the mix (at the 2.44 mark to be precise).[35]


  • but it’s when the onus is taken from the beats and glossy production trappings and placed on her voice alone – such as Homeless and the more epic I Will Be – that her uniqueness is allowed to shine.[36]#
  • piano ballad Homeless sounds like a solid single but also like a dog whistle singing a show tune[37]
  • Even Homeless – a mid-paced ballad of the standard yuckiness that you normally glide over – is given real edge and character by the Lewis vocal.[38]


[edit] Quotes

  • Jordin Sparks: "She sang her new single at a party I went to the other night and it was phenomenal. I really like the song and I think she's got what it takes to make it over here. You know, I actually met her a couple of weeks after I won Idol, because we wound up in the same recording studio. She was very, very sweet so I wish her all the best."[58]
  • Whitney Houston: "My God, she's a baby me."[59]
  • KT Tunstall: "Surely Leona is gonna top the charts for the next five Christmases? She should do. It’s a brilliant song. Everybody bleeds love at Christmas. I’ve always bled love at Christmas!"[60]
  • KT Tunstall: "I'm not usually a fan of the churned out TV pop/reality show singers, but you have to hand it to Leona Lewis, she's got real star quality."[61]
  • Naomi Campbell: "Leona is a great vocalist and the fact she’s from London makes me support her even more."[62]
  • Akon: "I don’t think she’s going to have any problems [breaking the US]. She’s really a real singer!"[63]
  • Clive Davis: "I was immediately knocked out by her range, her versatility, and the pure beauty of her voice. She is an artist who will be a true star for many years to come."[21]
  • Simon Cowell: "In my opinion Leona is one of the most talented singers I have ever heard. I have a feeling America is going to feel the same way about her." [21]

[edit] Leona Lewis's records

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Record Country For Notes
Fastest selling download UK "A Moment like This" 50,000 copies in 30 minutes
Fastest selling single by a female artist UK "A Moment like This" 571,253 copies in its first week
Most downloaded song in 2006 UK "A Moment like This"
Fastest selling debut album UK Spirit 375,872 copies in its first week
Fastest selling debut album Ireland Spirit
Fastest million selling album by a solo artist UK Spirit 29 days
Most consecutive weeks at number one by a single from a British female artist UK "Bleeding Love" 7 weeks
Most consecutive weeks at number one by an album from a British female artist UK Spirit 7 weeks
Most cumulative weeks at number one in the singles chart by a British female artist UK 11 weeks
Biggest selling single in 2007 UK "Bleeding Love"

[edit] Leona Lewis's unofficial releases

Year Album Label
— Twilight None (unreleased)
2007 Best Kept Secret UEG Music
Year Single Artist Label
2002 "Fool"[64] Twister featuring Leona Lewis and MC Whizaard None
2005 "Private Party"[65] UEG Music
"Dip Down"[66] UEG Music
2006 "It's All for You"[67] The Schizofreniks

[edit] Leona Lewis in download charts

Year Single Chart positions
UK IE
2006 "A Moment like This" 1 2
2007 "Bleeding Love" 1 1

[edit] Stuff removed from Spirit (Leona Lewis album)

Also in Los Angeles, Lewis worked with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis[3][68] and Danish producers Soulshock & Karlin.[8][69] Jam & Lewis and Soulshock & Carlin, however, do not appear on the album.

Other collaborators include songwriter JC Chasez,[70] Damon Dash,[10] up-and-coming producer Fernando,[69] Danja,[69] Scott Storch,[71] Karen Poole,[72] and Diane Warren.[8][73] However, none of their songs appear on the album.

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