Leona's last foray into the charts was her brilliant, underrated festive album Christmas, With Love which spawned number three future Christmas staple One More Sleep. Her third album Glassheart was a bit of a flop in the UK, not that it was bad, it just wasn't very Leona and the step toward a more electronic heavy sound smothered her already faint personality. So what do you do when Simon Cowell is extinguishing your creativity, a flare no one knew you had? You sack him. Leona moved from Syco to Island, a much better record label and the results are very impressive.
Her new single, the first to be lifted from her upcoming fifth studio effort I Am is called Fire Under My Feet and it is the Leona song we've been waiting for. She wrote it herself with the help of Toby Gad (mastermind behind Beyoncé's If I Were a Boy) and it's so Ella Henderson that Ryan Tedder must be twiddling knobs somewhere in the mix! From the acapella opening to the anthemic chorus and thumping folksy pop beat that carries you to the vocally explosive climax, this song should put Leona back on top.
5 / 5
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