Ryan Tedder of the American band, OneRepublic and the producer/writer of Bleeding Love, commented on Leona in a recent interview with BBC.co.uk:

 

Give us an American perspective on Leona Lewis’s talent.

 

Her voice without question is one of the best out there. There’s always going to be room for the divas, the big-voiced female singers who sing huge songs that last a long time - the Mariahs, the Whitneys, the Celines. For Leona to work in the US, a lot of the songs will be the same but the packaging will be different.

 

If you’re going to push that kind of music - big ballads and big songs - you have to be edgier, they can’t be clean and polished, it just doesn’t work in the States. I think the urban music scene has been so influential in the last five or 10 years that everything has a slight edge to it.

But Leona's songs (including the ones he produced) are perfectly clean and polished :blink: So is he saying she's going to be a flop? :lol:

But Leona's songs (including the ones he produced) are perfectly clean and polished :blink: So is he saying she's going to be a flop? :lol:

Because her songs are to slow and 'boring' for the American market? :lol:

 

I only just found out about 5 minutes ago that Ryan Tedder wrote the song. :o

Maybe he means the album will be "re-packaged" before the US release? :unsure:

Another interview from Channel4 website:

 

Interview

 

"Timbaland is nowhere to be heard"

 

You might not know it but Ryan Tedder is responsible for two songs in the Top Ten at the moment. As well as being the frontman of One Republic and voice of Timbaland's 'Apologize' he wrote and produced Leona Lewis's number one hit 'Bleeding Love'.

 

Tedder has been chipping away at the face of pop since winning a US reality TV show in 2000 and has finally made it. Even if no one really knows who he is yet...

 

 

Quote:

 

Hello, Ryan. Are you the most anonymously-successful man in music?

Yes, I am. The immediate association is that 'Apologize' is a Timbaland song but all it takes is one listen and you realize that Timbaland is nowhere to be heard on it. When 'Promiscuous' or 'SexyBack' came out, people didn't call those Timbaland songs. Timbaland told me that he thought the song would have been a hit with or without him but that he saved us a lot of time. If he hadn't stepped in I wouldn't be doing this interview for another year at least, so for that I can take the occasional misinterpretation.

 

It's not our fault! So, in brief, what's your story so far?

I won a record deal on a show called 'MTV Total Request Live' in 2000 in America performing as a singer-songwriter but it all ended up going nowhere fast. A year later I did a deal with Timbaland and he ended up briefly getting me a solo deal with Virgin records but then that fell through as well.

 

So after a bad experience with reality TV, why did you want to get involved with our X Factor winner Leona Lewis?

When I did the song for Leona I had no concept of what X Factor was, I had never seen it and didn't care. I'd never wanted to work with an American Idol either - I just didn't like what it turned out, I didn't like the artists that came from the shows and I didn't find them compelling. But someone sent me a link earlier in the year and her voice just sounded unreal. From a writer's perspective, this girl - with or without a TV show - has one of the best voices I've ever heard.

 

So which parts of the album can you lay claim to?

I did 'Take A Bow' which is probably going to be the second single, it should be, it's an absolute smash. But I also had a song called 'Bleeding Love', which I pitched as well, and Simon Cowell said that he knew on first listen that it was 'the one'.

 

Do you not think that Leona is maybe a little bit, well, boring to be a true superstar?

I think her personality is going to have to start coming through; she does have a personality, I've been with her, I've seen it. I do think that the image that needs to be projected to be a worldwide singer is more than just the voice, although you look at Rihanna and no one knows anything about her and she's massive without any tabloid coverage.

 

So, to sum up, you're having quite a brilliant month, aren't you?

Everything that is happening right now is unreal. It's one thing for it to happen in the States but the surreal aspect is that it's happened the world over at the same time. One minute I'm doing a phone interview to New Zealand, the next Australia, then it's Poland and it's all over the globe. That part is hard to wrap my head around.

 

You'll get used to it. Thank you erm, Whatshisname...

Edited November 13, 200717 yr by Becky

Maybe he means the album will be "re-packaged" before the US release? :unsure:

Well the Kanye West(?) and Danja material is still lying about, maybe they're holding it back, if they are repacking it for a U.S. release..

But Leona's songs (including the ones he produced) are perfectly clean and polished :blink: So is he saying she's going to be a flop? :lol:

 

I wouldn't say "Bleeding Love" and "Take A Bow" are clean and polished, they're more edgy than the rest of the songs on the album.

But Leona's songs (including the ones he produced) are perfectly clean and polished :blink: So is he saying she's going to be a flop? :lol:

 

 

Yea thats whats i was thinking? i dont get it, surely he knows what the rest of the album is like.

Well the Kanye West(?) and Danja material is still lying about, maybe they're holding it back, if they are repacking it for a U.S. release..

 

 

I dont understand why they would (repackage) put those songs on the US one and not on the UK one, surely the danja ones would of worked in the UK as well ? :huh:

Edited November 13, 200717 yr by utoia2004

I dont understand why they would (repackage) put those songs on the US one and not on the UK one, surely the danja ones would of worked in the UK as well ? :huh:

Probally, who knows.

 

But Danja's music has a MASSIVE American appeal to his name.

Probally, who knows.

 

But Danja's music has a MASSIVE American appeal to his name.

 

 

I hope they do repackage it for the US because i agree with RYAN, to work in the US there needs to be an adge and apart from 'bleeding love' and 'take a bow' there isnt really much more edgy songs.

Well the Kanye West(?) and Danja material is still lying about, maybe they're holding it back, if they are repacking it for a U.S. release..

 

She didn't work with Kanye West, she just met him.

Well the Kanye West(?) and Danja material is still lying about, maybe they're holding it back, if they are repacking it for a U.S. release..

 

 

I think they could be holding it back because of the different release dates and they dont want these tracks to leak to the american market, possibly.

Probally, who knows.

 

But Danja's music has a MASSIVE American appeal to his name.

 

 

Danja did "Blackout", massive flop (here anyway). :rolleyes:

Danja did "Blackout", massive flop (here anyway). :rolleyes:

Because Britney herself refused to do any promo for it. :lol:

 

PLUS the album has an amazing sound to it. -_-

I knew that he worked with her. I don't care for One Republic to be honest, the material I have heard from them (aside Apologize) sounds c**p.

 

But it's nice to know he think's shes going to do well.