This overproduced album fails at the one thing it needed to do most: fully harness Lewis’ talent, tying it to material as great as her voice. (Even she has her limits.) Though Lewis, 23, sounds great and certainly has great potential, Spirit is just too derivative and too predictable to inspire much cheering. Not only does Spirit too often sound like a decade-old album, it too often sounds like a decade-old album that Carey left behind, realizing it sounded too much like her past output. At Cowell’s urging, Davis signed Lewis to his J Records, and then lead the all-star production work to create her debut album.īut the no-expense-spared nature of creating and promoting this artist and especially this album is ultimately the most remarkable thing about the whole affair. Davis is the longtime label executive responsible for discovering Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys, to name just two. He also signed up American pop Svengali Clive Davis. Sure enough, she’s succeeding in the plan, laid out for her when she won the Idol-esque British reality show X-Factor in 2006, with Cowell as her mentor.Ĭowell not only enlisted Winfrey in his plan. Leona Lewis has had American Idol‘s Simon Cowell cooing in her ear for some two years, telling her how great she is, how she’s the next Mariah Carey, how with his help she can conquer the world.
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