Leon Jackson - Right Now
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Artist: Leon JacksonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-10-20
Music Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Don't Call This Love
- Creative
- Stargazing
- All in Good Time
- Right Now
- You Don't Know Me
- Ordinary Days
- A Song for You
- Fingerprints
- Could Do Better
- Misty Blue
- Caledonia
- When You Believe [UK Bonus Track]
Music reviews of Right Now
Music Review: Back then - he sucked. Right Now - he's even worse.
Rating: 1 Stars
Hey, did you see that episode of this years X Factor, where the 12 finalists of this increasingly atrocious karaoke competition had to sing in front of a live audience for the first time, and that shaky, awkward looking guy with the bad suit and worse vocals not only ruined his song, but was SO bad he actually enraged Simon Cowell?
Oh, whoops - my mistake. That wasn't a contestant; that was Leon Jackson, last years WINNER. In what was supposed to be a superstar performance of his new single, where we're supposed to see how he's grown as an, ahem ahem, "artist" and everything, Leon turned out to be worse than any of this years wannabe's.
Leon's story is a short one; a baffling winner of last years suck-fest, he was handed the Christmas number one (as they, boringly and predictably, all are) and then disappeared for the rest of the year to "write" (ho ho ho) his new album. And what a massive anti-climax it must be for his ever-decreasing legion of easily pleased, cross-eyed, spit when they talk, simpleton fans.
The new single failed to get to number one (beaten, in fact, by comedian Peter Kay's X Factor spoof character Geraldine, something I'm sure Cowell was just delighted about) but never mind - its the album that counts, right? Oh. Oh dear.
For starters, Leon didn't write a word of it (of course), but an insulting FIVE of the 12 songs are cover versions, all so insipid, bland and uninspiring they almost defy description, while the rest of the album's faux "jazz" attempts are already ruined by Leon's flat, boring voice. It would be acceptable if this substandard tosh was knocked out in a month or two (as used to be the norm with these reality show idiots), but the fact this took almost a year to make is staggering.
It also showed that Cowell's creations are not all bulletproof chart monsters either. When even runners up in these contests score number one records (think such abominations as Ray Quinn, Chico and Journey South - don't worry, they've all vanished off the face of the earth as well - they'll welcome Leon on the holiday camp tours soon enough), the fact that Leon didn't even come close with this album (and it's plummeting down the charts as I type this) conjures up images of Cowell blowing the dust from his Men In Black memory eraser, last used to eliminate all trace of earlier winner and uber-failure Steve Brookstein.
Today's pop music scene is more vibrant and exciting than its been in years, with great pop songs from UK acts like Sugababes and Girls Aloud, not to mention chart conquering superstars like Pink and Britney bringing a sense of both fun and personality to a previously dead in the water genre. Leon Jackson's album sounds sad, stale and irrelevant in comparison, and is anything but the sound of "right now."
Cowell will, of course, move onto his new project of whoever wins this year (and he must be praying for someone better than Leon), and will be busy still showing off the jewel in his crown that is Leona Lewis, and after this deserved flop there is no way in Hell we'll see another album from Leon Jackson.
See? Sometimes bad stories have happy endings after all.
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