A love song, but not a conventional single
“Another Love Song” is a Leona Lewis recording from her fifth studio album, I Am. It is not the similarly titled Tom Odell hit, nor an unreleased demo. Island issued Lewis’s track as an official instant-gratification download on August 14, 2015: fans who pre-ordered I Am could download it that day, according to the Official Charts Company’s contemporary report. Spotify’s release metadata likewise dates the standalone promotional package to August 14.
That chronology matters. Some catalog services now associate the song solely with September 11, 2015, when the complete album arrived. Apple Music, for example, displays it under the September 11 edition of I Am, and Universal Music Japan gives the same date for its physical album release. Both dates describe legitimate stages of the campaign: August 14 was the track’s official advance availability, while September 11 was its parent album’s release.
Calling it a full commercial single, however, overstates the case. It functioned as a promotional track and pre-order incentive. It did not receive a dedicated music video or a sustained radio campaign comparable to “Fire Under My Feet,” “I Am” or the US-focused “Thunder.” Its absence from the main singles charts is therefore not evidence of suppression or a failed launch; it reflects the narrower role Island assigned it.
The people behind the recording
The published credits identify Lewis, Toby Gad and the three members of TMS—Tom Barnes, Ben Kohn and Peter Kelleher—as writers. Gad produced the recording, TMS co-produced it, and Jaded supplied additional production. Wez Clarke mixed it, with Tom Coyne and Randy Merrill credited for mastering. Those details appear together in the rights-holder-supplied metadata attached to the official YouTube audio and are also reproduced by Shazam’s recording entry.
The credits place “Another Love Song” within the collaborative core of I Am. Gad worked extensively with Lewis during the project, while TMS brought experience in streamlined British pop. Lewis was not merely interpreting an outside composition: her writing credit is integral to understanding why the lyric’s return to romance also sounds like a cautious return to emotional risk.
Lewis later complicated the production history in an interview with Time. Discussing London club music, she said she had drawn on an older garage recording by Sia and taken a small sample before writing her song over it. The interview does not name that earlier recording, and Sia does not appear among the released track’s credited composers. Without a named source or a corresponding published writing credit, it would be irresponsible to claim a particular Sia song was formally sampled. Lewis’s account documents an inspiration or studio source; the public credits document the authorship ultimately attached to the master. The surviving evidence does not resolve the gap more precisely.
British club music beneath the powerhouse voice
Musically, “Another Love Song” is one of the album’s clearest departures from the grand balladry that had defined Lewis in the public imagination. A brisk four-on-the-floor pulse, clipped keyboard figures and elastic low end place it closer to UK garage-informed pop than to “Bleeding Love.” Shazam lists the track at approximately 130 beats per minute, a useful technical marker for its dance-floor momentum.
The production does not ask Lewis to overpower an orchestra. Instead, her voice darts around the rhythm. The verses retain a light, conversational attack; stacked vocals and brighter synth layers expand the chorus. That restraint is important. Lewis’s range was never in doubt, but “Another Love Song” demonstrates rhythmic dexterity—how she can delay a syllable, lean against the beat and make a polished dance arrangement feel personally inhabited.
The lyric begins from resistance. Its narrator has built barriers and assumed that another romantic composition will not be necessary. Falling in love dismantles that position. On its own, this is familiar pop territory. Within I Am, however, the premise acquires another resonance: the album repeatedly examines what happens after a person leaves an arrangement that once provided security.
That second meaning is interpretation, not a claim that the song secretly describes Lewis’s record contract. Lewis told Time that the album’s language often reflected inner freedom and different kinds of relationships, rather than a single literal escape narrative. “Another Love Song” works because its romantic surface and the record’s broader recovery arc can coexist.
The larger break represented by I Am
I Am was Lewis’s first studio album after her departure from Syco, the company that had released her work since her victory on The X Factor. She began making the record before securing a new deal, then released it through Island in Britain and Def Jam in the United States. In a Recording Academy interview published around the album launch, Lewis presented the project as the product of a period of change and greater creative control.
That context helps explain why a dance cut mattered even without becoming a major single. Earlier Lewis albums sometimes positioned uptempo tracks as diversions between vocal showcases. Here, the club influence participates in the album’s central argument: independence should sound active, physical and forward-moving. AllMusic’s review praised the record’s broader palette and singled out “Another Love Song” among its stronger songs, while describing I Am as Lewis’s first album beyond Syco’s confines in its album assessment.
The track also complicates a simplistic account of Lewis as a reluctant dance singer. She told Time that she went out in London, followed its eclectic nightlife and regarded the city as a leader in dance music. Her performance here does not resemble a label-mandated remix pasted beneath an unchanged vocal. The phrasing is designed for the groove.
What was—and was not—released
No credible evidence indicates that “Another Love Song” leaked before its authorized campaign. Lewis had performed new material publicly before the album arrived, and online posts circulated the official advance track, but public performance and label-authorized pre-order access are not leaks. Nor was the song “unreleased” simply because it lacked a conventional video.
The cleanest description is this: “Another Love Song” was an official promotional release on August 14, 2015, followed by its inclusion on I Am on September 11. The later rights-holder audio on YouTube carries the album date because it represents the album master, not because the August campaign never happened.
Its modest commercial footprint should not obscure its documentary value. “Another Love Song” catches Lewis testing how much of her established identity she could retain while changing the frame around it. The crystalline vocal remains unmistakable. What changes is the pressure beneath it: less orchestral weight, more club propulsion, and a narrator surprised to discover that openness can return after defenses have hardened. That made it more than a pleasant deep cut. It became one of I Am’s most concise statements of renewal.