Ryan Tedder

OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder aka Already Gone/Halo writer blamed Lady GaGa for Leona Lewis’s flop in the US!

He said in an interview…

“In the US, unless you’re Justin Timberlake or Beyoncé, you cannot put out a song and not be in the country when it comes out.

Leona was gone for six weeks when ‘Happy’ came out because she was promoting the record in other countries – it wasn’t her fault; she couldn’t be two places in once.

I had radio stations telling me that they thought ‘Happy’ was the single biggest ballad they’d come across in ten years, but that if Leona didn’t come over here and promote it, it was going to fall.”

However, Tedder also admitted that the impact of Lady GaGa – who has notched up five US top ten hits in the last 12 months – might have adversely affected the single’s chances.

“On top of that, America’s consumed with Lady GaGa and dance music right now, so it’s not the best time for ballads anyway”, he said. “When everything on the radio is blasting out at 120 bpm, a song like ‘Happy’ almost sounds out-of-place.”

For someone who writes only slow ballads, i’m not suprised he’s pointing the gun to artists who have comes out with fast-paced songs. But he really went overboard by saying this shat! To correct him, Leona Lewis did quite a number of performances in the US on the release week of her album. That’s what most artists do anyways! They almost never promote it when they drop a new single. With “Happy” only peaking around 30 plus on Billboard Hot 100, I guess he’s justifying his flop there.