Spirited

Advantages: Superb vocals
Disadvantages: Her style may not suit everybody

... Who is Leona Lewis? Leona Lewis is a British multi platinum selling artist and three times Grammy award nominee. Leona rose to fame in 2006 when she won the British TV show X-Fator and quickly became a tremendous musical success. Her debut single was not only crowned Christmas Number One in 2006 but also became the fastest selling UK single when it was downloaded 50,000 within 30 seconds of being released. Her Albums Up to date Leona has only released one album, which is titled Spirit but she is set to release her second in November 2009. Spirit was released in 2007 and debuted in the top spot in nine countries including the UK, the USA, Canada and Australia. The album became the biggest album seller of 2007 in the UK and Ireland. And the 6th biggest selling album of 2008 in the world. Spirit ? Album Inlay...

MI9to5 29.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Spirit - Leona Lewis

Spirit

Advantages: Ballads, good tracks
Disadvantages: None

...Life has changed dramatically for Leona Lewis since she won the third X-Factor in 2006. To me, she seemed the favourite pretty much from the start as she can actually sing and has a star quality about her as they like to say on the show. What I do like about her though is that she has stayed very grounded and true to her roots and has not let fame go to her head which is nice. Spirit was her debut album and was released in 2007. According to an article I read Spirit became the fastest-selling debut album and the biggest seller of 2007 in both the UK and Ireland, and made Lewis the first British solo artist to top the Billboard 200 with a debut album. It has now become the United Kingdom's fourth fastest selling album of all time. To date the album has sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide[1] and has a 9× platinum certification in...

Spottydog11 27.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Spirit - Leona Lewis

A level playing field?

Advantages: One of their best tracks is included.
Disadvantages: Quite a bit of dross.

...Levellers, The Levellers. This was the Levellers third album. The Levellers, by the time this had been released, had been a band for nearly five years, though their original vocalist left after album number 1, they were certainly getting well known outside of the punky/celtic/festival scene that was their origins. I certainly remember seeing them in London in 1990 and they had built up quite a following of students, squatters and festival goers. This album for me marked a bit of a change in direction and, in my opinion is not as good as the first album 'A Weapon called the Word', or the 2nd album, 'Levelling the Land'. It is almost like they have got better and more polished, yet lost something along the way. That being said, there are some cracking tracks as I will divulge shortly. *******The band line up******* Mark Chadwick...

paulhanton 21.06.2008 · Read review
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High Spirits

Advantages: Some lovely songs, Leona has a great voice
Disadvantages: Full of ballads, no up-tempo numbers

...Unbelievably, it has been a whole year since the voice that is Leona Lewis came to our attention courtesy of Simon Cowell's reality TV show, The X Factor. For me, Leona didn't really stand out until the Boot-camp stages, where I realised that the girl really could sing. Her first few live shows were amazing, and Leona cruised to the final, trampling all over runner up Ray Quinn. After winning the show, Leona shot to number one with her debut single, and then seemed to disappear into oblivion after that. She resurfaced again around October of 2007, announcing that her debut album was about to make its way onto our shelves, together with a new single. So 10 months later....was Spirit worth the wait? Sadly, the cover didn't stand out as anything amazing, just a facial shot of Leona, which sort of reminds me of the cover of Britney Spears...

mummy2harry 29.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Spirit - Leona Lewis

A Spirited Effort

Advantages: Well drawn characters
Disadvantages: Not enough action

...Fantasy writers never seem to write in single volumes, but even by the usual standards of the genre, Kate Elliott's seven volume "Crown of Stars" series was maybe overdoing it a bit. As if that wasn't enough, she apparently plans much the same for her "Crossroads" series, of which "Spirit Gate" is the first part. Years ago, The Hundred was ruled by mysterious Guardians, who supposedly could not be killed. But these Guardians have not been seen for many years and law and order is upheld by Reeves, who patrol the skies with large eagles. But their authority is being undermined and The Hundred is turning into a lawless place where merchants cannot transport goods from one place to another without fear of being attacked and no-one knows when this first started and who is behind it. In another part of the world Mai, a woman from Kartu...

Soho_Black 30.03.2008 · Read review
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Some Next Level Tunes

Advantages: A couple of their best songs
Disadvantages: A couple of tunes aren't as big as the rest

...?Another Level? came out in 1996, and was the seond, and most successful album from BLACKstreet. The group at this time consisted of Teddy Riley, Chauncey Hannibal, Dave Hollister, and Mark Middelton. Riley had moved on to creating this awesome four piece after the break-up of his New Jack Swing trio, Guy, and here he continues to take the same role in that one as he did before as he makes the Hip Hop-influenced beats for them. 1. ?Black & Street? (Intro) 2. ?This Is How We Roll? To get things going, we have them warming the album up in a genlte way as they come up with a tune which has them coming with a soft-sounding one to just work your way into the album with a smooth R&B tune to have you in the right mood for what you are about to expirience. **Five Stars** 3. ?No Diggity? This is perhaps the most well know single from...

XICripZ 16.04.2009 (27.02.2009) · Read review
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Spirited Away: Let's be spirited away!

Advantages: Great storyline, voice actors, artwork and soundtrack.
Disadvantages: None. Might be scary for younger viewers.

...Run Time: 120 Minutes. Rating: PG Can be bought new for around £7 and used for £4+ on Amazon.co.uk. Ebay used and new is around £6+. Spirited Away is about a young girl (Chihiro) who follows her parents into this deserted 'theme park' when night falls, strange creatures roam the place and Chihiro tries to leave but discover her parents have been turned into pigs for eating the spirit's food! She is then put to work at the bath house there so then she might be able to find a way to save her parents, with the help of the spirits who work there and Haku, a boy who feels familiar to her, she tries to leave the place she has been spirited away to. The movie's graphics are well done, facial expressions are drawn in detail and the movement of the characters are fluid. Something fans of cartoons and anime will most definitely enjoy, I...

Mistybrook 20.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Spirited Away (Animated) (DVD)

Break-up of the Level 42 Family

Advantages: Level 42 at their most commercially accessible.
Disadvantages: Level 42 at their most commercially accessible.

...accessible ? as evidenced by ?Lessons in Love? - which remains their biggest international hit. However, my favourite songs on the album are not what you would call ?hit material? and, in my view, the ones I have chosen are much closer in spirit to the Level 42 of the past. The album hangs together as a whole quite well, but, there are one of two duffers, with the execrable ?Fashion Fever? the definite nadir of the album. In a way, I can understand why the Gould brothers decided to call it a day after this album. This doesn?t denigrate the work the band produced after they left, but their departure did leave pretty big shoes to fill, and as such, what followed lacks a certain ?level 42-ness? if there is such a thing. RIF, in my view, marks Level 42?s commercial zenith, but ironically, while future efforts failed to match its success in...

Hishyeness 25.09.2009 · Read review
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It Spirited ME Away !

Advantages: Fantastic Film
Disadvantages: Nothing what so ever

...SPIRITED AWAY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Another magnificent fun film from the incredible Hayao Miyazaki. Chihiro and her parents move to a new town and Chihiros new school. Upon arriving they get a little lost and end up in an old run down theme type park which is very spooky and more than a little bizarre. Chihiro spots little spirit houses in the undergrowth and strange carved stones in the woods. They all decide to explore the park, although Chihiro is a little reluctant, the park is colourfully painted if quite rundown. They come across a deserted yet delicious smelling food stall and decide to tuck in but Chihiro has a bad feeling about the park and holds back. Instead she goes of to explore by herself and this is where the movie really takes off?.. Night falls quickly and the park begins to light up by itself and dark shadowy...

Maximus-Qualitus 19.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Spirited Away (Animated) (DVD)

Free your spirit...

Advantages: Great songs , Touching lyrics , Great voice
Disadvantages: none!

...Remember the winner of the third series of the British talent show The X Factor ? Well the twenty three year old Hackney girl has finally released her debut album Spirit , after leaving fans with eleven months of waiting for it. The album includes a list of thirteen memorable tracks ; each one co-written by the singer. Spirit consists of up tempo songs such as 'Better In Time' as well as beautiful ballads such as the emotional 'Footprints In The Sand' which were this years charity Songs for Comic Relief. The Singer sometimes referred to as the 'younger version of Whitney Houston' really gives it her all on this CD. Leona puts thought and effort into each note she sings and lets her personality shine through each phrase. Here voice is powerful and her pitch is perfect along with the make-you-wanna-sing-along songs. Through her music it...

xdonzx 01.03.2008 (13.07.2008) · Read review
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