Album review: Leah Dizon - Communication!!!

In the West we have Cassie. A 'singer' who look the part, but whose actual musical talent is questionable. In the East, there is Leah Dizon. She's a pretty young lady, but musical talent eludes her completely. How she managed to get a record deal and put out not one, but two albums is a mystery to me.

Leah cannot sing. This is evident from the start with the album's opening track. "Step into my world" has Leah sounding a complete wreck. She sounds as though she has a throat infection and that she's singing from a hospital bed. It's terrible and a waste of a good song, because the beat is hot and the chorus is catchy.

Leah Dizon worked with a couple of the same producers who worked with Crystal Kay on her last two albums Color change! and All yours, which means some of the songs sport a similar sound. Leah cements that no matter how hot a producer is, they can't always strike gold if the talent they're working with has zero vocal ability. Communication!!! is a case of solid songs, wrong artist. "Love sweet candy", "Nothin' to lose" and "Not too bad" in the hands of Crystal Kay would've been candy on the ears. In the hands of Leah, she kills the songs cold, yet they're the best on the album. Another album cut which is solid, but gets throttled by Leah is "Without a goodbye". A great rock style ballad which would've been beautiful in the hands of Ayaka or Hikaru Utada. But Leah steps up to the plate and f**ks up the whole song.

Whilst some of the sugary sweet production masks her shitty vocals, on some tracks her vocals are so bad there's no hiding them. I'm sick to death of every song featuring obvious auto-tune these days, but this girl REALLY needed it on this album. It's a shock that the song producers and the sound engineers let some of these vocal takes find their way onto the final versions of songs.

Communication!!! is a case of a whole album of good material going to the wrong girl. The hooks on the songs are catchy and the music is well produced. But the second Leah stepped into the booth and opened her mouth to sing, she intoxicated every single song. The only thing I give Leah props for is for looking good in the music videos and for writing near enough every song on the album. Leah needs to stick to showing off her ass and titties in lads mags, because there's no way she'll ever be taken seriously as a music artist. Not with shit like this.

RATING: 3 / 10

Album highlights:
■ Step into my world
■ Love sweet candy
■ Without a goodbye
■ Nothin' to lose
■ Not too bad