Leona Lewis seems to be everywhere lately, but we have to wonder: Who cares?

This fake star was the 2006 winner of the X Factor, the UK talent show that spawned American Idol. After winning the show, she recorded an album and won a cheerleader in judge Simon Cowell.

While everything Cowell touches seems to turn gold, the fact remains: He has AWFUL taste in music.

Lewis is being touted as the UK’s version of Mariah Carey, which is frightening. (For those who don’t keep up with the blog regularly, suffice to say we like Mariah’s soulless vocal acrobatics about as much as we like paper cuts).

Sure, the 23-year-old pop star wannabe is bound to seem a little fake, since she’s the winner of a TV talent show, but Lewis is so made-up she barely seems human. Her bad hair, Pussycat Doll/drag queen make-up, blinding lipgloss and fake orange tan make her look like the “before” picture of one of Tyra Banks’s Top Model makeovers.

Lead single, “Bleeding Love,” features every vocal gimmick Mariah ever used all crammed into a few minutes of bad pop. And the cheesy lyrics certainly don’t make this tripe any easier to swallow. Did we mention that the music sounds like it was made using a cheap-o Casio keyboard? Classy.

Regardless, Lewis’s over-hyped debut album, Spirit, is set to debut at the top of the charts in the US—a first for a British songstress.

We really hope Amy Winehouse cleans up her act so she can prove that Brit girls are capable of making good music, unlike this pre-fab pop garbage.

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