It's the moment you've been waiting for, the British singing sensation Leona Lewis has got your back in the legendary Dave Myers-directed video for "I Got You," the second single from her sophomore album "Echo." The storyline follows several young couples who experience in their turbulent love relationship, and was filmed in Venice Beach, California. Lewis's performance in front of a burning heart is also featured in it. "It's a strong, cool performance, lots of actors with a movie feel to it," she recently tweeted about the scene. "I'm so proud of it and hope you love it too - enjoy!"What is made painfully evident by the video is Lewis is starting to fall into that' seen one video, seen 'em all' set of artists who never really bring anything to write home about when it comes to putting visuals to their music. The much anticipated dramatic video, another one with a good story behind, and Lewis looking gorgeous and stunning as usual. It features clips of many couples going through the ups and downs of love and having arguments, but they all eventually patch things up at the end with images suggesting healing and new relationships.
The 24-year-old vocal mistress might not exactly be Katie Price in the showbiz personality stakes, but things really do seem to change around Lewis in a quite startling way. Which just goes to show what a big talent can do to people. When she first did her version of Snow Patrol's "Run" for the Live Lounge, it felt like a challenge. Here was this defiant reality TV pop star, the girl who turned X Factor's boasts of finding real talent into *cough* reality, singing a well-loved indie song as if it was a Westlife ballad, and making more than a decent fist of it.
By slowing it down, puffing it full of warm air and setting it free to waft over a wintry nation, Lewis made it her own, without killing what people liked about it in the first place. It was, and remains, a good cover version. Lewis being Lewis, she can at least provide some kind of musical movement, by wandering off the path set down by the song, and blazing a new trail using that hooting voice of hers. The big question is whether, for you the listener, this kind of simple, stripped-back songwriting is a hallmark of emotional truth: Lewis certainly sings it as if it is or a really lazy way to put a song together. Even though the video has been on the internet for over a week now I have to post it just because we love the song and video so much! Lewis is true talent and true talent always needs to be recognized.
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