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  • incredible

  • love her rendition of this song and i also love the goo goo dolls original one as well....i love how this one is very emotional, vivid and powerful..

  • the cover is okish it isnt great. maybe cuz the original one has so much meaning to me but also cuz i dont think she shows the range of her voice her. she could make it so much more emotional! i really think her cover of run is amazing is even better than the original one but this one lacks emotion for me.. just my opinion... i really love her though :)

  • why so few views?

  • I feel Leona has added a darker almost eery feel to this song and i gotta say i like it. Yes it's not the same as googoo dolls but then why bother covering it if not to try putting her own vibe on it making it her own.

  • Youl always get people moaning on videos of a song thats being covered... 'oh its not better than tne original bla bla bla'... Who gives a shit nothing wrong with adding abit of variety to a song, some people will like it and some wont... Stop bitchin.

  • Googoo dolls was better

  • it's a Go go dolls's song

    Leona did it well :)

    but Avril Lavigne did it much better <3

  • Leona conveys emotion like a whisper even when belting, the emotion is so vivid and touching that you never really forget how it makes you feel at the time, she touches a place very few people can, its vulnerable, heartfelt and heartbreaking all at the same time, she makes the listener fall in love with her over and over again.

  • OmG,,,, so relaxing ... LOve it ...

  • ale kurwa gowno ja pierdole... REFREEEEEEEEN kurwa Gowno;/ weez spierdalaj;/

    Polski hejter.

  • It's not a new song! It's a cover, asshole!

    Despite being a good cover it doesn't beat the original.

  • Her version is lovely. I really like her voice and the emotion she puts into it is just...wow. Chills.

    But it's way too slow (at least for me).

    Other than the tempo, her version is fantastic.

  • is this on the new album?

  • EVERYONE, Please go buy Leona's 'Hurt' EP on iTunes. :)

  • I adore Leona but Goo Goo Dolls is way better just because it has so emotion in it because they wrote it and it has more meaning, sorry but thats my opinon

  • this is really good but a tad slow.

  • her voice is just a kind of soul-lifter <3

  • Dis version give me diff feeling from Goo Goo dolls, i like both of de songs

  • She added way more emotion, but i do love the original

  • Great song but no one beats Goo Goo Dolls. Her version is too sloooow. John beats Leona with elephant steps

    

  • I love Leona. I really do. But I feel that she's singing this song too slowly.

  • love leona's voice.. but she shouldnt of done this cover.. GOO GOO DOLLS all the way! :)

  • Leona is amazing. I didn't even know she was on The X Factor until months after I was a fan. She's an incredible artist and everything she does is amazing. Just because some people don't like what she's doing, doesn't make it crap. You just have different tastes than what she does. She is INCREDIBLE! Her music has made me tear up many times just from the beauty of it!

  • Leona is inredible, so if your here to hate then Fuck off.

  • Did not see that one coming!!!

    I Do like Leona but i do think that the "Goo Goo Dolls" can sing this better!

  • love this cover, she has one of the best voices around!

  • she's got it all go girl

  • I LOVE her

    with all of my heart :)

  • This is beautiful, Always brings a tear to my eye..

  • not a new song, but okay..its a great cover

  • @kissmeimserbian20 It's new for her... lol.

  • I personally think this is beautiful.

  • I love her voice, and I support and buy her music 100% but she needs to get away from doing cover's, even though they sound amazing, she needs to pump out some good original material to stay in the charts. She did come out of X-Factor (the best thing ever to come out of it imo) but as good as X-Factor is for saturday TV, it does'nt have a reputation for producing artisits with longevity..she'll need to pull out all the stops to get another number 1 but I'm behind her music all the way...

  • troppo lenta.

  • N'AW I love it <333

  • Its a Goo Goo Dolls song! not a new song, a remake! not bad, prefer the original!<3

  • I don't think this broad has a very good voice.

  • Piano + Leona's voice = magic

    *__*

  • I PREFER GOO GOO DOLLS VERISON.

  • Check out the Iris music video I made. watch?v=OjoEMqIxpUg =)

  • absolutely fantastic :')

  • Everybody forgets about Goo Goo Dolls :'(

  • @dawnwarriorable Nobody needs to be reminded of some version when this is Leona's version here...

  • always love you Leona :)

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  • Oh come on... with a voice like leona lewis you can do much better

    it has to be sung like the goo goo dolls, with a powerful voice...not this whispering slow version so you fall asleep @ the second line

    No hating but that is disappointing :(

  • oh i love this song i wanna cry

  • I think this cover is okay....why has she taken to this whisper singing? she has a good voice right? i dont wanna hear you whisper it to me Leona...BELT IT GIRL!!! lol (not hating btw) just saying.

  • I actually love Leona's covers!! Go Leona xxxxxxxxx ignore all the stupid deaf idiots xxxx

  • @louiselee1997 How can we be deaf idiots when we can hear what a travesty this is?

  • Don't like this AT ALL!! Totally spoiled a great song by the Goo Goo Dolls!! Ronan Keating's version is WAY better!!! (And I normally adore Leona's voice) Hate the style of the song!!! :(

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  • This is so beautiful. Leona makes everything beautiful

  • This song is great!!

  • People are fucking idiots. This is amazing. I love Leona! :)

  • disaster

  • I think her best cover would have to be Run..you can really feel her emotion in that

  • Why is this so slow? Has this been slowed down? The other Leona version of Iris I've heard is faster, sounds more normal... Try youtube this: Leona Lewis - Iris - Hurt Album EP

  • clearly not a 'New Song 2011'

  • i like both of them, but this tips it for me - with the goo goo dolls, they have lots of music behinf the track, but with leona it's really left to her voice... i like both though.

  • Really ..Feel in this song.. I was ...!

  • HYPNOTIC :) I love her

  • @MrFallendancer couldnt agree more

  • hmmm...i like leona but goo goo dolls brought the drama, the heart and the emotion into the song. its become a timeless song from the 90's. it doesn't feel old it just sounds great.

  • The voice is there, but for me, this is NOT her best. She needs songs which call for big emotionally vocal flourishes she's so very good at!

    Her remake of "Run" is a GREAT example of a song that BENEFITED from her vocal flourishes! A song I can think of like that would be "Don't Know What You Got Till It's Gone" by Cinderella or "Hold on to the Night" by Richard Marx. 

  • This is bullshit compared to the original

    Decent but shocking by comparison

  • utter shit cant beat rzeznik's voice

  • nothing beats the original version. this is making me sleepy.

  • THE true emotions reveal in this Version.!!!

  • Both versions are so beautiful in their own way! Eurgh i can't call it.

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  • Hypnotic. There's no other word for it. <3

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  • and i don't want the world to see me

    cause i don't think that they'd understand

    when everything's meant to be broken

    i just want you to know who i am

    amazing lyrics

  • this is the worst cover of iris iv heard :/

  • Her voice is perfect for the song. IMO, it's the music that ruined her version. Wtf is with that high note?

  • leona lewis is beautiful. the goo goo dolls owned this, but in such a different way, her voice brings me to tears its so stunning and seems so genuine

  • I really like this.. When she sings it seems like it means something.. Which is a good thing to have.. Her songs make you think of things.. And I don't think she does shit covers.. But this is not as good as the remake of course its not! No remake of a song is.. But she has made it something different.. This is Leona Lewis.. Not Charlotte Church or Katy Perry..

  • I like both versions...Leona just made it more haunting for a movie soundtrack

  • i like it but the wanteds is better xxx

  • Fair Play Goo goo Dolls Is Way Better:')

    this one is alright but it's way to slow:')

  • wow this is so different from the original. Can't stop listening to it :')

  • this is one of my greatest and favourite... and it still is with this new version... she did justice <3

  • It's too slow. I prefer the Goo goo dolls

  • her voice is so thin and I cant stop pressing repeat

  • and i don't want the world to see me

    'cause i don't think that they'd understand

    when everything's meant to be broken

    i just want you to know who i am

    the best lyrics i ever read, heard seen or typed, the song's jsut excellent. i think lots of people who feel this way can relate to the song and i am one of those people

  • i like it very much. hurt and iris are two runs

  • Well it's better than Ronan Keating's version. lol

  • Haters gon' Hate. just gtfo

  • Wow I really loved Melanie Amaro on the x factor then I saw her Leona Lewis she is Really really great as well

  • ....

  • Love, love, love it. Iris screams for a female (Diva) vocal! Thanks Leona for the Christmas present :O)

  • raped replay button ><

  • original from ronan keating

  • @J2LO Goo Goo Dolls wrote the song and released it, Ronan just covered it..

  • what a load of shite. singing it slowly does not make it sound like you mean the lyrics. she should never have touched this song. original is king

  • love Leona n i think her version is good but not better than Goo Goo Dolls

  • She had no chance in being successful in this song or Hurt. The originals are songs that just shouldn't try to be done again.

  • i really like this version now, it took a few listens but i think its great.

  • She ever going to stop covering songs all the time..

  • I think Leona Lewis has a very pretty voice. But this song...it honestly cannot be covered by her...in this way...and maintain the intense feeling of desire and honesty as the original. There's too much there. And i doubt it's Leona's fault, it's probably some guy who works for the studios fault. I compare it to Sarah McLachlan's Christmas album. I'm, a huge fan, but does she add anything fresh to those christmas songs? No, it just seems like a money grabber.

  • @ptr16 amen

  • Not a fan of the cover, the original is better but amazing voice :)

  • Seriously people need to stop covering this song, it away turns out crap. This is by far the worst cover so far !

  • @douggieism No her voice is amaizng and to be honest i really like it so don't you dare say its the worst , what would you say if justin bieber or katy perry did it , NEVER SAY MY IDOL WHO I LOOK UP TO IS CRAP GOT IT

  • you cant beat the goo goo dolls on thisa song.... ronan jeating tried, now leona lewis great atrists in their own rights great voices but some songs should just be left.....

  • Leona's voice is beautiful, i've actually never heard a different cover of this song so it was nice in that way, but the original is as good as it gets, the goo goo dolls version can't be touched

  • Leona Lewis is doing a lot of cover songs... I heard her cover of 'Hurt' too, but I think Boyz II Men's version of this son is better.. Leona's version is alright though, but nothing comes close to Goo Goo Dolls version.

  • I love this version

  • love Leona but i don't love this cover. Run is a success, prefer it to original.. this is a pretty epic failure. She is covering huge songs which is risky, and they won't all work, and I hope she doesn't annoy too many people in the process

  • @madstu666 but so many people on youtube have covered this. i think everyone has a right to do it in their own style.

  • not as good as the origional by the goo goo dolls

  • i have never liked this song but when i heard leona lewis singing it i was like holy fuck what a song...she blows the original out of the water...GO LEONA XXX

  • @bcbghp Are you mentally retarded? I mean that seriously.

  • This is my favorite song of all time...when i saw leona do a cover of it, i wasnt sure she could do it justice, bu tbloody hell she done it justice! i love it! but not as good as the original!

  • This is decent, gotta prefer the Goo Goo Dolls version though!

  • @dazzaw1 I agreed with you, the voice of Leona its perfect, Goo Goo Dols just have the necessary soul for make the difference.

    Leona sing the song, GGD live and preempt the song.

  • Beautiful her voice is angelic for all the critics I would like to hear you sing half as good as she does.

  • Love this song soo much and no one can deny Leona's amazing talent but i wish she wouldn't try cover classic songs which were already perfect.

  • Still prefer the original.

  • I Mean To Have Someone Cover Your Song Is A Form Of Flattery. Leona Is Fearless With Her Vocals. This Song And The Rest Of Her Ep. Are All Fabulous Songs From The Perspective Of A Man, With Leona Its From A Woman And Brings A Freshness To The Sound, The Original Will Always Be The Original. I Think Of Leona's Covers As A Part 2 To These Tracks.

  • Leona Lewis has now ruined 3 of my favourite songs! and all in one album. Nice one. 

  • @Lyricsareforalways its an ep

  • leona made me cry with her version of Run (better than Snow Patrol) but this and Hurt just dont do it. she just cant get the passion. who could really match Johnny Cash in that video?

  • yet again another shit remake.. rock on goo goo dolls

  • I went through a lot with this song in its original version and I have to say one thing - Leona clearly hits the emotional mark of being absolutely fabulous and authentic with this song. It is a cover that is absolutely brilliant from the very beginning until her hitting the last note!

  • @MrStrictlyIntimate WELL SAID!! :))

  • Goosebumps.

  • this song is amazing ..her version is amazing...love that girl so much

  • The original is no much better.

  • I really, REALLY felt this. Probably because I'm a girl and it's so much more relate-able <3 <3 <3

  • its a shame this and "hurt" are just for an EP and not an indication of the style of the new album, because i'd much rather listen to hear her sing tracks like this.

  • I do like Leona Lewis and she has an amazing voice. She did a great job doing these covers. But I do agree that is the new album all full of covers? She has a fastastic voice but even Adele, Florence + The Machine has original songs and I believe Adele and Florence both wrote their own material as well. So in that regard, as much as I do love Leona's voice, greater respect has to be given to the other two UK ladies, Adele and Florence.

  • ommmggg i haatteee this soonnngg...iittsss ttoooo beeautiful for me to take in...my ears cant take this goodness nd my eyes are drowning in water

  • almost madeeeee me cryyyy......

  • The EP hits US iTunes tonight at 12am. Be sure to get it and let's get Leona to #1 again!

  • I <3 Leona. But I don't like this cover, and the cover of NiN - hurt was really not good to be honest.

    She needs to get back to the songwriting she done with I see You (Avatar), and things like that.

  • Why cant she get a songwriter?

    

  • wish this glorified karaoke singer would fuck off and stop ruining amazing songs written with a soul and passion that she doesn't have the first clue about!

  • @tmcbrighton Glorious voice , the mistress of reinvention. Most of the songs she covers become remembered as by Leona Lewis .... I wonder why ?

  • @Isane01 She does have a great voice, but I think it's a bit of a stretch to say most of her covers become remembered as by her. She's done a few good covers (like I Will Be, Run, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and A Moment Like This), but she doesn't beat the original every time (Iris, Colourblind, Hurt, Run, Stop Crying Your Heart Out = her covers weren't better and they're well known/loved songs so if anyone thinks hers as the original they don't know much about music).

  • @lannapeanut i know a lot about music but i dont have to explain myself to you....YOUR PERSONAL OPINION IS YOURS WE ALL HAVE ONE

    LEONA LEWIS IS AN AMAZING SINGER AND IF YOU DONT LIKEY GO TO ANOTHER PAGE THEN..

  • @butlerny Um, did you miss the fact that my very first sentence said, "She does have a great voice." and that I complimented some of the covers she's done? I never said you had to explain yourself to me, if you think her covers always beat the original then that's fair enough but I was pointing out that that person was wrong to say that "most of the songs she covers become remembered as by Leona" - they don't because she isn't covering obscure songs.

  • This is so good, although Johnny Cash will always be there for it to be honest, and with Goo Goo Dolls as a close second.

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  • I'm just glad she brings old songs back to life for the current generation. Trust me, they need good music like this, and she's giving it to them :)

  • @BennyJayRuss I agree!:-)

  • to all the haters, it must be ironic that she is agreeing with you guys while she's singing this song.

    as she croons the chorus "i don't want the world to see me (cos she out in hidding for covering this song), cos i don't think they understand (what simon cowell wants simon cowell gets...she bound by contract), when everything is meant to be broken (including this song as it needs to be disect), i just want you to know who i am (which is an amazing cover song songtress)"....

  • Leona Lewis is prepared to take shit from haters she did with run...but you know what? shes also prepared to step out the box and in her own life she would rather muck out horse shit for charity than get her tits out for a hit single so you haters can FUCK RIGHT OFF as leona lewis is liked by millions those that found her through

    FF13 "MY hands" "inaspetta" "Cant Breath " live "Grenade live" Doha"Ill be there" live MJ tributePulse""Scene of the crime"d/uet with Alicia keys!! and loads more.

  • she singing so good and she beautiful ;;

  • Well maybe she does, but not this one she doesnt, it was played when my mate died and its only the original singer who makes the song what it is.

  • I think Simon Cowell will always be disappointed by future X Factor winners cause they can't seem to top her.

  • This is one of my favourite songs of all time. It makes me want to cry every time lol. This song was the best part of City Of Angels.

    I wish people would stop whining about her covering songs, as if she's the only one. At least she has a fabulous voice and isn't like the computer generated robots of Hollywood.

  • @mangasrules13 i actually like both :)

  • @mangasrules13 i too think of the intensity of the song in City of Angels, dealing with life, death, loss and love and i just think Leona is going through the motions, singing the notes in the right order. as she says you cant fight the tears that arent coming......

  • @steveperry2112 well i never heard the other songs so for me they have a different meaning and she sings with emotion to me...:))..

  • This is the cover of me and my exes song, just cried my fucking heart out... thats not like me either, bad times :(

  • love love love leona ! so beautiful and so talented x

  • This song has actually been ruined

  • @RarrBled Leona never ruins the songs, she just makes them better than they already are

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  • I love Hurt but would love her to sing this on xfactor usa!!

  • "When everythings made to be broken" if leona sang this 5 yearsago it would have been different vocallynow? her voice is stronger shes getting better!! amazing ...

  • first johnny cash's version of hurt and now this. come on. she needs to stop covering songs that she will not do justice. sure she can sing but stick to pop or whatever cause she murdering the classics.

  • @Hannah96Venables oh shush who are you to comment, are you a worldwide star nooooo, so what the hell do you know, she is the one making millions and being on every top tv show singing, people like you are just jealous and what the hell do you know??? dont see you setting the music industry alight like she is

  • @drewbysnacks im sorry i didnt get the memo saying that people weren't allowed to have an opinion anymore. and dont say im jealous cause im not, being a 'celebrity' (i use the term lighlty) is top on the list of things i never want to be. im pretty sure if she stopped singing there wouldn't be too much drama about it. stop looking at these people in awe its childish.

  • @Hannah96Venables we look at these people in awe because they are amazing people and very talented like ms. Lewis here