Leona Lewis, the UK phemon who won “X-Factor,” the UK equivalent of “American Idol” is showing off her slim new figure in her latest video for the song, “Collide.”
While Lewis is big in Britain, she has yet to reach superstar status in the United States. She hopes to break through with her latest track
Lewis said she is counting on Collide, scheduled for release Sept. 4th, to win over an American audience. She calls it her most personal yet.
“I’m excited for people to see a different side to my music. It’s reminiscent of a summer romance, meeting someone and feeling an instant chemistry,” she explained in a recent interview.
“The past two years, I have had a lot of situations thrown at me. It has made me realize that I am much stronger than I thought I was,” she said.
In the video, she little to the imagination with an American Beach girl look in a polka dot bikini top and brown trousers.
She wears her hair in long brown waves and rocks out in a convertible in Malibu.
She switches to a zig-zag top and beige maxi skirt while she sings, with the waves crashing in.
“Collide is a summer song that has a really good vibe. I love the energy and happiness I feel when I listen to it.
“On my previous album, [2009’s] Echo, and also on tour, I was experimenting with more high-energy sounds, so it’s a progression from that,” she said.
Echo topped the UK charts but never made it into the Top Ten on U.S. charts. It peaked at 13.
Leona is set to perform on both the US and UK versions of The X Factor, the only star to have secured such a deal, according to London’s Daily Mirror.
Simon Cowell, who produces X-Factor, has been one of her biggest supporters.
Check out the video below.
Keith Girard four decades of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie’s and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN’s Washington Bureau and has written one book on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War.
perhaps how bigotted some american and british people are towards her homely and kind personality (because thats what it is)she becomes limited even though she has already had great success the so called bigots in the press and brits just dont give her enough credit on how great a singer she is, and how she hasnt won a brit award just bewilders me. and i am sure her fellow artists cant understand that either, but if she was american she would be on top of the world.perhaps one day she may look back and say was it worth it.This should be a sure cert for a no1 but we will see how poor it will be promoted again by simons team, to busy looking after himself to understand he should put more time into his artists aft6er they have found some success