#Bleeding love album series
Spirit is officially the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the 21st century, according to the Official Charts Company Īfter winning the third series of reality singing contest The X Factor in December 2006, Lewis began recording the album in Sweden, the United Kingdom and United States, working with a variety of writers and producers. The album remains the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the UK, and is one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history. It also became the fastest album to sell one million copies by a solo female in the UK. Spirit became the fastest-selling debut album in the UK, at time of release. The album made Lewis the first UK solo artist to debut at number one with a debut album, in the US, on 26 April 2008. Spirit is the debut studio album by English singer Leona Lewis, released by Syco Music in November 2007 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, followed by a worldwide release during early 2008. " Better in Time"/" Footprints in the Sand".Sure, we live in a world where Lewis has never been able to return to such a dizzying height, but her name (and legacy) is cemented in the pop pantheon.
Lewis’ rendition soared from country to country, shattering records and blossoming into one of the most ubiquitous hits of the mid-00s. Hearing this, Tedder rearranged the song and pitched it to Cowell. After Lewis’ triumphant win on The X-Factor, judge and pop mogul Simon Cowell began the hunt for songs to place on her debut record. Songwriters Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder struck platinum over and over and over again with “Bleeding Love,” embellished with a voice so angelic that it’s hard to imagine anyone but Lewis shooting this to the stratosphere.įun fact: the song was originally intended for McCartney’s Departure album, but his label hated it. Your lips mouth along, whether intentionally or not. I keep bleeding, I keep, keep bleeding love.” It sticks to your brain. “You cut me open and I / Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love Then, the hook crashes in like a wrecking ball. “Yet everyone around me, thinks that I’m going crazy, maybe, maybe / But I don’t care what they say / I’m in love with you / They try to pull me away, but they don’t know the truth / My heart’s crippled by the vein, that I keep on closing…” “Nothing’s greater, than the rush that comes with your embrace / And in this world of loneliness, I see your face,” she remarks in the second verse, compiling the mounting feelings rising within her. The relationship might not be completely healthy, but Lewis is so love-struck she wears her battle scars proudly and unapologetically. “Closed off from love, I didn’t need the pain / Once or twice was enough, but it was all in vain / Time starts to pass, before you know it, you’re frozen,” Lewis chirps on the opening stanza, staging a story of qualm-filled romance, as she grapples with close friends trying “to fill me with doubt,” she later confesses.
That final year of my studies seemed to drag on forever and ever. I was free, and responsibility was just a passing fancy. Even hearing it now, I’m whipped back to my youth ⎯⎯ a bright-eyed, disastrously naive 20-something who probably should have taken things a bit more seriously.īut I didn’t care. I was a senior in college when the song, a cut from her 2007 debut album Spirit, smashed, and it would quickly become one of these euphoric, life-defining backdrops. From its infectious, rhythmic-based melody to Lewis’ absolutely intoxicating head voice, it was damn near irresistible. It also didn’t help that I played that sucker on repeat every chance I got. My old roommate Ashlee absolutely loathed Leona Lewis‘ “Bleeding Love.” Who could blame her, really, that song was everywhere. Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly series showcasing an album, single, music video or performance of a bygone era and its personal and/or cultural significance.
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