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Clive Davis has approached will.i.am to write some "hits" for Leona Lewis

  • January 11, 2012
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Clive Davis has revealed that will.i.am is working on Leona Lewis' much-delayed third album.

The industry executive, who has been involved with all three Leona albums, said of ‘Glassheart’: “What I’m doing right now is approach­ing the best writers, I’m sitting with will.i.am, with Polow [da Don] and with Ryan Tedder."

He was critical of Leona’s desire to write songs for her previous album, saying: “You don’t become a writer because someone says you’ll get a copyright royalty and you’ll make more money.” He added: “So the second album did not have [the hits] because she co-write eight songs on that album.”

However, this time round, he decided to leave it to the pro­fes­sion­als and take what he called “the old fashioned approach” of sourcing songs from proven hitmakers. He added: “We’re about to finish her third album. I think it’s damn good. I think it’s got hits in it.”

‘Glassheart’ will even­tu­ally be released on March 26.

The full Clive Davis interview is here (he talks about Leona from about 01:04:30 onwards).

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