I imagine the thinking was that the album had sold so much so quickly, that if they put out another single from it it wouldn't have charted particularly well. I suspect the only reason the second single was for Sport Relief was to give people an extra reason to buy it.
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I imagine the thinking was that the album had sold so much so quickly, that if they put out another single from it it wouldn't have charted particularly well. I suspect the only reason the second single was for Sport Relief was to give people an extra reason to buy it.
Take A Bow would’ve smashed but the good sis Rihanna said not on my watch.
I think we will get some type of album from Leona again but I think it’ll be more stripped back, probably cheaply produced and entirely uninteresting. Probably about motherhood or a lullaby album. I don’t think we’ll ever get anything as polished and pop orientated as the likes of Spirit/Echo or Glassheart again.
I think we will get some type of album from Leona again but I think it’ll be more stripped back, probably cheaply produced and entirely uninteresting. Probably about motherhood or a lullaby album. I don’t think we’ll ever get anything as polished and pop orientated as the likes of Spirit/Echo or Glassheart again.
As I've said before, personally I think she's done and needs to do the right thing and tell us. I would rather know and make peace that there's nothing substantially new coming, rather than the teases every few months of her in a studio and saying things like new stuff coming! This has been going on for years at this point, I Am came out 7 (!!!) years ago, a few days ago.
But surely the fact she's still going to studios means she isn't done? She just doesn't have a specific timeframe to stick to. She doesn't have a label after all. There are active artists who leave it much longer than 7 years between albums!
That's really such a shame! She has so much potential! But when she left Island Records, I had such a premonition that it would be difficult for her to find a major label again. I respect that she was brave to leave Syco Music at the time, but I Am could have been promoted much better as an album. The music industry is so hard sometimes...I write for a Dutch music platform and if she comes out with a new album again, I would love to speak to her and hear her story about her time in music.
Yeah and I'm cool with that. Frankly I wouldn't want her to put out anything too chartworthy. She'll show up in a few years time with an album that'll be well supported by Radio 2 and will spend a week in the top 20. She'll do a modest tour of medium-sized venues and that will be fine. So long as her voice holds up that is.
For now, clearly she's got something more important to focus on.
She had potential but it all sort of feels too late now. That doesn't mean she can't still record music, in her own time, that her fans will enjoy. But I suspect the days of top 10 singles is over, unless she maybe does a Sigala feature or flukeishly ends up getting something trending on TikTok.
Spirit / Echo / Glassheart was a pretty stunning trilogy of albums though, so at least she’ll always have that.
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I still listen to a lot of Leona. Those first 3 albums are just exceptional. There's something about the type of sound they went for on Echo that really does it for me sometimes. It's a spectacular album.
It's just an absolute travesty that her illness affected her voice so much. In her prime, Leona was absolutely untouchable. The Labyrinth tour was one of my favourite live shows that I'd seen. When she hit those almost-whistles at the climax of Can't Breathe and that mega note in the middle of Happy - chills through my whole body. It was sensational.
It's just an absolute travesty that her illness affected her voice so much. In her prime, Leona was absolutely untouchable. The Labyrinth tour was one of my favourite live shows that I'd seen. When she hit those almost-whistles at the climax of Can't Breathe and that mega note in the middle of Happy - chills through my whole body. It was sensational.
I still regret that The Labyrinth Tour only had dates in the UK, Ireland and Scotland. Leona could have easily filled concert halls in the rest of Europe and perhaps even the US. Based on Spirit's mega sales, there would have been enough enthusiasm for her concerts.
It's also a shame that Christina Aguilera canceled her Bionic tour, forcing Leona to lose her chance to star as a support act...
It's also a shame that Christina Aguilera canceled her Bionic tour, forcing Leona to lose her chance to star as a support act...
Leona supporting Christina was always so bizarre yet amazing to me!
It’s still so odd to me that they didn’t have her tour her first album and capitalise off that mega success. She could’ve sang the majority of Spirit and thrown in a couple of her biggest X Factor covers and she’d have had a hit tour, makes no sense.
Also with news of Alexandra Burke releasing Overcome on Vinyl, when are we getting Spirit and Echo? Spirit is still one of the most successful debuts of all time so more than deserves one and Echo sold well enough to warrant one too.
Also with news of Alexandra Burke releasing Overcome on Vinyl, when are we getting Spirit and Echo? Spirit is still one of the most successful debuts of all time so more than deserves one and Echo sold well enough to warrant one too.
