Posted March 13, 200817 yr :o I predict tough choices for me here. Bleeding Love vs Every Time You See Me Smile Whatever It Takes vs Ain't That A Lot Of Love Homeless vs After You Better In Time vs No Man's Land Yesterday vs The Queen Of Starting Over Take A Bow vs Black Butta I Will Be vs Saviour Angel vs Time Is On My Side Here I Am vs Why Me, Why You, Why Now I'm You vs Tell Me I'm Wrong The Best You Never Had vs Trade It Up The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face vs Rock Steady Footprints In The Sand vs Uptight A Moment Like This vs Back To You
March 13, 200817 yr Author Bleeding Love vs Every Time You See Me Smile Whatever It Takes vs Ain't That A Lot Of Love Homeless vs After You Better In Time vs No Man's Land Yesterday vs The Queen Of Starting Over Take A Bow vs Black Butta I Will Be vs Saviour Angel vs Time Is On My Side Here I Am vs Why Me, Why You, Why Now I'm You vs Tell Me I'm Wrong The Best You Never Had vs Trade It Up The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face vs Rock Steady Footprints In The Sandvs Uptight A Moment Like This vs Back To You Leona: 6 Bev: 8 It's funny, two of my top songs on both albums were against each other. (BL v ETYSMS and TAB vs BB) Edited March 13, 200817 yr by Adi_Gallia
March 13, 200817 yr Bleeding Love vs Every Time You See Me Smile Whatever It Takes vs Ain't That A Lot Of Love Homeless vs After You Better In Time vs No Man's Land Yesterday vs The Queen Of Starting Over Take A Bow vs Black Butta I Will Be vs Saviour Angel vs Time Is On My Side Here I Am vs Why Me, Why You, Why Now I'm You vs Tell Me I'm Wrong The Best You Never Had vs Trade It Up The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face vs Rock Steady Footprints In The Sand vs Uptight A Moment Like This vs Back To You Ooops :o
March 13, 200817 yr Author Bleeding Love vs Every Time You See Me Smile Whatever It Takes vs Ain't That A Lot Of Love Homeless vs After You Better In Time vs No Man's Land Yesterday vs The Queen Of Starting Over Take A Bow vs Black Butta I Will Be vs Saviour Angel vs Time Is On My Side Here I Am vs Why Me, Why You, Why Now I'm You vs Tell Me I'm Wrong The Best You Never Had vs Trade It Up The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face vs Rock Steady Footprints In The Sand vs Uptight A Moment Like This vs Back To You Ooops :o :drama: traitor! :lol: To be honest I think Bleeding Love and ETYSMS might be tied for me, it's just that I've heard Bleeding Love so much that I'm a bit bored of it.
March 18, 200817 yr Ooo. lets go Bleeding Love vs Every Time You See Me Smile Whatever It Takes vs Ain't That A Lot Of Love Homeless vs After You Better In Time vs No Man's Land Yesterday vs The Queen Of Starting Over Take A Bow vs Black Butta I Will Be vs Saviour Angel vs Time Is On My Side Here I Am vs Why Me, Why You, Why Now I'm You vs Tell Me I'm Wrong The Best You Never Had vs Trade It Up The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face vs Rock Steady Footprints In The Sand vs Uptight A Moment Like This vs Back To You Almost a whitewash to Leona. Take A Bow Vs Black Butta was extremley hard, the best 2 on both albums for me!
March 23, 200817 yr Bleeding Love vs Every Time You See Me Smile Whatever It Takes vs Ain't That A Lot Of Love Homeless vs After You Better In Time vs No Man's Land Yesterday vs The Queen Of Starting Over Take A Bow vs Black Butta I Will Be vs Saviour Angel vs Time Is On My Side Here I Am vs Why Me, Why You, Why Now I'm You vs Tell Me I'm Wrong The Best You Never Had vs Trade It Up The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face vs Rock Steady Footprints In The Sand vs Uptight A Moment Like This vs Back To You :D still like beverleys songs tho :wub:
April 11, 200817 yr Bleeding Love vs Every Time You See Me Smile Whatever It Takes vs Ain't That A Lot Of Love Homeless vs After You Better In Time vs No Man's Land Yesterday vs The Queen Of Starting Over Take A Bow vs Black Butta I Will Be vs Saviour Angel vs Time Is On My Side Here I Am vs Why Me, Why You, Why Now I'm You vs Tell Me I'm Wrong The Best You Never Had vs Trade It Up The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face vs Rock Steady Footprints In The Sand vs Uptight A Moment Like This vs Back To You haha!
April 11, 200817 yr Bleeding Love Ain't That A Lot Of Love After You Better In Time The Queen Of Starting Over Black Butta Saviour Angel Why Me, Why You, Why Now Tell Me I'm Wrong Trade It Up Rock Steady Footprints In The Sand A Moment Like This
April 17, 200817 yr Bleeding Love vs Every Time You See Me Smile Whatever It Takes vs Ain't That A Lot Of Love Homeless vs After You Better In Time vs No Man's Land Yesterday vs The Queen Of Starting Over Take A Bow vs Black Butta I Will Be vs Saviour Angel vs Time Is On My Side Here I Am vs Why Me, Why You, Why Now I'm You vs Tell Me I'm Wrong The Best You Never Had vs Trade It Up The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face vs Rock Steady Footprints In The Sand vs Uptight A Moment Like This vs Back To You Leona - 9 Beverley - 5 :o
May 14, 200916 yr Every Time You See Me Smile Ain't That A Lot Of Love After You No Man's Land The Queen Of Starting Over Black Butta Saviour Time Is On My Side Why Me, Why You, Why Now Tell Me I'm Wrong Trade It Up Rock Steady Footprints In The Sand Back To You Leona -1 Beverley -13 That may be because I can't stand Leona's screechy, puny little voice though
May 14, 200916 yr Author That may be because I can't stand Leona's screechy, puny little voice though Oof! Leona doesn't really have a puny voice, but I think I understand where you're coming from. Perhaps Leona will mature, as Bev did. A fairer comparison would have been "Spirit" and "The B-Funk", when they were about the same age as each other.
May 15, 200916 yr Really? I listened to her album and it's like Mariah Carey but in an oxfam dress.. It never really lifts or takes off in the way the songs by the true divas do, it's like a glass half full, if you get my drift? Her lower range is merely a whisper, her mid range is basically head voice, her belting range is very thin and lacks power, and then she goes into squeek mode which isn't as awsome and fantastic as everybody makes out, there are plenty of singers who use that squeek mode, too many in fact! That's a little showy as if to say ''ooh look, I can screech really high, look at my range'' that isn't music to my ears, maybe a dog appreciates it though?.. To me she sounds like a breathless little girl in her teens. As Cara would say ''she doesn't have the chops'' .. Maybe she will develop some bass in her voice as she gets older and it matures but at the moment there's a hell of a lot of things that dont sit right with her voice... I also don't like the fact that every time I hear her live, she's almost constantly a tad out of tune. If she was to start singing 'leona' songs and stop trying to immitate other singers than maybe I'd have another opinion but at the moment she's just a poor man's Mariah Carey.. Actually, a p*** poor mans Mariah.. I don't think any albums of Leona can be compared to Beverley's in the context which you put it.. Beverley's first album was written by her, arranged by her, produced on an independant label and was very low-key... Leona on the other hand had everything written for her, was flown around the world to jump in with the best producers money could buy, had millions of pounds put into it and endless promo and oppurtunities provided by Simon Cowell and Clive Davis ... You can't compare on the basis that they were both of the artists ''first albums'' If you want a real comparison then the only thing I can suggest is that you take Prodigal Sista which was almost 100% Beverley in terms of writing, arrangments, melodies, production etc and compare it with Leona's ''Twilight'' which was the same in the sense that it was 100% the artists own musical vision and artistry... And if you ask me, every single song on the prodigal album wipes the floor with the twilight album, every song on the prodigal album wipes the floor with the spirit album too if you ask me. It was written and produced by one person so had a clear vision of what its about, not something produced by about 20 different people with mis-matching songs and a total mess if you ask me.. in terms of sheer music quality and not 'disposable pop trash'' the prodigal album is a master piece.. But it's hard to appreciate if you didn't buy it at the time because it has a sound that is specifically related to the period in which it was released so someone listening to it now probably wouldnt get it... The harmonies, melodies, lyrics, arrangements all make you catch your breath in wonderment.. Anyways, I'm going on a bit now and will let you off lightly, I could talk about this subject in depth for hours but won't bore people or bog them down with it lol.. If some people choose to pick throw away trash like Jamelia and Leona over Beverley then who am I to stop you! Go for it... I just like to keep it real, there's only two kinds of music - the good stuff and the bad stuff (Louis Armstrong) and Jamelia, Leona et al fall miles short of ''the good stuff''
May 15, 200916 yr Author Yes, I do tend to get that her belting is a bit thin but I think her voice will get better as she ages. I do like her voice, but give me Bev any day. Of course, there is all the money pumped into Leona's album, it had a much bigger budget. I was talking about their ages and how their voices would have been at similar stages in life. (both being 22/3 when they released their debut) I can't say I've ever looked past Leona's "Spirit" album in terms of her material, so I can't comment on that. But I expect "Prodigal Sista" is better than her "Twilight" album. I really wish I heard it at the time it was released, but it's not exactly the kind of album an eight year old has at the top of his list. So I really get what you mean with not getting it now. It's always been a bit hard to get into for me. :( Haha, I get what you mean. I feel really snobbish when I'm arguing for Beverley against other female artists but she really does have one of our best voices. I don't get why people don't see it.
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