Originally Posted by uslelelover:
“As someone who only has seen Louisa sing in the past couple days, I will say that girl is impressive. Some of her X Factor performances remind of Leona's performances in that a strong vocalist really told the story of the songs well. HOWEVER, as I stated before, their voices are completely different. I initially said that she sounded like Jessie J/Christina. Now, I think a more accurate comparison in both ability and tone is Joss Stone. Also, I don't think Louisa was quite as consistent as Leona in the live shows.
Forever Young was a horrible single choice for Louisa. It was nowhere near as good as her other performances on X Factor. It is flopping for a winner's single, but that doesn't mean she won't have a really successful album. I hope Syco doesn't doom her career by choosing wrong singles like they did for Leona.
If she does have a successful album, so be it. She really looks up to our star, Leona, and I will probably become a Louisa fan as well when she releases some music.”
Yesss I think I might be a fan too; she has talent and I adore nice (personality) singers who are vocally talented and truly give their all when singing, and don't rely on studio programs to edit and fix their voices. Yesssss that's who I was thinking about but I couldn't remember so I settled for Victoria Justice. Yesss she sounds a lot like Joss Stone; from the first time she opened her mouth to sing "Who's Loving You" with the red bandanna and all... She sang with soo much soul and they were promoting her a s a soul singer; I wonder what happened...
Originally Posted by fallendancer:
“Guys what type of genre do you want Leona to approach with her next album?
I'm confused because I love songs like Run very organic powerful and raw. And on the otherside I want her to do contemporary RnB album with dancehall/reagge influence because her voice is so hot! 😍
She was born to be RnB queen but she doesn't understand it 😞 Lol”
Hahaha "She was born to be RnB queen but she doesn't understand it" hahahaa wowwww. I love her voice RnB styled songs but it seems that RnB female singers aren't doing so well on the charts these days... it actually seems that many of them have faded away...
Originally Posted by Clarkey2015:
“So are we 100% that's it for I AM single releases?
If so, grrr, i find it so frustrating, what's the point of creating a master piece like Power, to just leave them dustily on the album.....
Leona was really enthused about this in the video she did, and was quite complimentary about herself singing in the heavens! which was nice to see, and also shows she knows it's a special song.... Ever since she said that I've NEEDED a transcendent performance, e.g:
Leona's - Run @ X Factor
Mariah's - Fly like a Bird @ Grammys
Adele - SLY @ Brits
I feel the same way about Thank you and the Essence of Me, which i know she has promised for the tour, i just cannot help but feel that as yet, she's not been given a platform to shine from.
Core fans will see them, but they need a slot like the TV performance of FTEISYF and subsequent Sekonda watch advert which really catapulted that song.
I really wish i could see the negotiation process of her getting promo slots... I feel like they need someone super passionate to be like LOOK, your show NEEDS this performance, give us FULL creative control including song choice and you'll be blown away, and more importantly the audience will be!
Also they need to start taking more care of her TV sets, better sound equipment and start forcing the technical teams to get her mic level correct ......
She's got the star power, i wish her team would be more demanding, like Jessie J during a live voice performance, she started over cause it just wasn't right....Which i think is absolutely the right approach Leona needs to take....
No performance is better than a panned one.
As soon as the Ben duet was proposed, any feelings of unease of discomfort should have been aired, and if necessary she be pulled from the slot. I'd rather she do that than perform a sub par performance ( Due to Ben...)
Leona has done a lot of favours for people, it's time she starts calling them in or cutting those people out. How many performances, private and public has Leona performed for Simon and she ended up with the worst slot of the night......
However, i do believe this albums era was going to be relatively short lived due to the empowerment theme dominating the album, I've found it hard to maintain an emotional connection with the album due to the intense nature of feeling "empowered" being a generally short lived emotion.
What i mean by that is, it's usually a rush of empowerment which spurs a change in life followed by a calm as you cannot be constantly feeling actively empowered.... that would be exhausting.
You settle into your new found power after your empowerment, which then becomes the norm until you are next challenged beyond yourself and need to feel empowered.
However you can be constantly in Love and maintain that feeling for a lifetime. She needs a corker of a love song for her next album.”
OMG I LOVE "POWER" SO MUCH!!!!!! I thought I was one of the only fans who loved it soo much! It's Euphoric! I really wish she would release it but I doubt it and I'm not sure how it would do, especially ever since FUMF didn't live up to expectations...
