Fix the Era

[Heartbreak Anthem]

Following the highly-acclaimed Spirit, Echo was Leona Lewis' second studio album. It saw her working with many "name" producers, such as: Max Martin, Harvey Mason Jnr, John Shanks & Ryan Tedder, among others, however, Syco⏤much like with the release of Spirit⏤mishandled the fuck out of this era. "Happy" was the album's lead single and while praised by critics, I felt like it provided a false start to the era, and isn't a single-worthy release. I would have kicked-off the era with its second single, "I Got You" and went from there. Praised as the next Mariah Carey, Céline Dion & Whitney Houston, I do believe Lewis was always set up to fail by Syco and her management, and it's unfortunate because of her powerful gift.

Track listing

1. Happy
2. I Got You
3. Love Letter
4. Can't Breathe
5. You Don't Care
6. Outta My Head
7. Brave
8. My Hands
9. Alive
10. Don't Let Me Down
11. Fly Here Now
12. Broken
13. Naked

Singles

1. I Got You
2. Can't Breathe
3. Outta My Head
4. Don't Let Me Down
5. Broken

[ChildOfTheMoon]

11 hours ago, Crystal <3 said:

BADLANDS by Halsey (2015)

Tracklist

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1. Castle
2. Hold Me Down
3. New Americana
4. Empty Gold
5. Drive
6. Roman Holiday
7. Ghost
8. Hurricane (Optional Addition)
9. Colors + Colors II
10. Coming Down
11. Is There Somewhere
12. Haunting
13. Gasoline
14. Young God
15. I Walk The Line

@Ice Princedid a very similar tracklist that share the same placements as Empty Gold and Is There Somewhere share. Hurricane is such a great song and deserves to be on the front of the album but I couldn't place it anywhere between drive and roman holiday since those songs are made for each other. I put it after Ghost as thats the track run on Room 93 and works pretty well! even if it interferes with the cohesion from Ghost to Colors. But anyway 

omitting Control is blasphemous smh

[Crystal <3]

25 minutes ago, ChildOfTheMoon said:

omitting Control is blasphemous smh

amazing song don't get me wrong but i just think the album flows better without it imo. 

[Lelewlovebird]

5 hours ago, Heartbreak Anthem said:

Following the highly-acclaimed Spirit, Echo was Leona Lewis' second studio album. It saw her working with many "name" producers, such as: Max Martin, Harvey Mason Jnr, John Shanks & Ryan Tedder, among others, however, Syco⏤much like with the release of Spirit⏤mishandled the fuck out of this era. "Happy" was the album's lead single and while praised by critics, I felt like it provided a false start to the era, and isn't a single-worthy release. I would have kicked-off the era with its second single, "I Got You" and went from there. Praised as the next Mariah Carey, Céline Dion & Whitney Houston, I do believe Lewis was always set up to fail by Syco and her management, and it's unfortunate because of her powerful gift.

Track listing

1. Happy
2. I Got You
3. Love Letter
4. Can't Breathe
5. You Don't Care
6. Outta My Head
7. Brave
8. My Hands
9. Alive
10. Don't Let Me Down
11. Fly Here Now
12. Broken
13. Naked

Singles

1. I Got You
2. Can't Breathe
3. Outta My Head
4. Don't Let Me Down
5. Broken

Interesting take! I always thought Naked, Can't Breathe or My Hands would have been better singles than I Got You. And I'd probably lowkey swap Love Letter with Let It Rain or Lost Then Found (not to mention scrapped songs like Scene of the Crime or Save Myself that could've made the album).

[Ice Prince]

18 hours ago, Crystal said:

BADLANDS by Halsey (2015)

Tracklist

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1. Castle
2. Hold Me Down
3. New Americana
4. Empty Gold
5. Drive
6. Roman Holiday
7. Ghost
8. Hurricane (Optional Addition)
9. Colors + Colors II
10. Coming Down
11. Is There Somewhere
12. Haunting
13. Gasoline
14. Young God
15. I Walk The Line

@Ice Princedid a very similar tracklist that share the same placements as Empty Gold and Is There Somewhere share. Hurricane is such a great song and deserves to be on the front of the album but I couldn't place it anywhere between drive and roman holiday since those songs are made for each other. I put it after Ghost as thats the track run on Room 93 and works pretty well! even if it interferes with the cohesion from Ghost to Colors. But anyway 

Thanks! Yeah, imo Empty Gold and Is There Somewhere really deserved a spot in the album, yet we got Control instead  

6 hours ago, ChildOfTheMoon said:

omitting Control is blasphemous smh

I, on the contrary, am LIVING for the Control erasure. I despise that song so much

Edited 23 hours ago by Ice Prince

[Crystal <3]

6 hours ago, Ice Prince said:

Thanks! Yeah, imo Empty Gold and Is There Somewhere really deserved a spot in the album

oh for sure. especially is there somewhere, like i was so shook it wasn't on the album when i was navigating her discog. i mean she did a japanese bonus track tho but its not the same, it fits so well with coming down in it's lyrical content. i truly love badlands but cohesion is the one thing it lacks (mainly on the deluxe in some places, the standard was alright in terms of track run but having Ghost as a closer is just a huge no for me). i think if we had the tracklist like mine or smth it would have been more cohesive imo, espically since it's a concept album.