“Nothing’s greater, than the rush that comes with your embrace / And in this world of loneliness, I see your face,” she remarks in the second verse, compiling the mounting feelings rising within her. The relationship might not be completely healthy, but Lewis is so love-struck she wears her battle scars proudly and unapologetically. “Closed off from love, I didn’t need the pain / Once or twice was enough, but it was all in vain / Time starts to pass, before you know it, you’re frozen,” Lewis chirps on the opening stanza, staging a story of qualm-filled romance, as she grapples with close friends trying “to fill me with doubt,” she later confesses. That final year of my studies seemed to drag on forever and ever. I was free, and responsibility was just a passing fancy. Even hearing it now, I’m whipped back to my youth ⎯⎯ a bright-eyed, disastrously naive 20-something who probably should have taken things a bit more seriously.īut I didn’t care. I was a senior in college when the song, a cut from her 2007 debut album Spirit, smashed, and it would quickly become one of these euphoric, life-defining backdrops. From its infectious, rhythmic-based melody to Lewis’ absolutely intoxicating head voice, it was damn near irresistible. It also didn’t help that I played that sucker on repeat every chance I got.
My old roommate Ashlee absolutely loathed Leona Lewis‘ “Bleeding Love.” Who could blame her, really, that song was everywhere. Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly series showcasing an album, single, music video or performance of a bygone era and its personal and/or cultural significance.
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