Maria Lawson is back! Now who the hell is that...

If you were watching X-Factor in 2006 then you might remember a lady with enormous boobs, great legs and an incredible voice. Her name was Maria Lawson and she didn’t win. Shane Ward did and congratulations to him.

Maria trundled away and signed to a small division of SonyBMG (possibly run from a portacabin off-site) and was moulded from a soulful rock diva into a Gabrielle wannabe. The single (‘Sleepwalking’) charted badly and the album (‘Maria Lawson’) fared worse. She was the face and breasts of a bra range for well-endowed women for a short while before saying goodbye to the world of music and minor-celebrity.

Now she’s back and there are some very good things about this return and these can be stripped down to one very simple fact:

HER SONGS ARE NOT SHIT.

Here are the facts about the new songs that Maria Lawson has (and indeed hasn’t) recorded and slapped on her fancy new website.

1. Her new single is called ‘Breaking Me Down’. It was written by Michelle Escoffery - a name which will mean something to about 14 people in the UK but those will know that she is quite good at writing pop/soul songs for pop/soul artists.

2. ‘These Walls’ is better. A sturdy ballad with which would make an amazing comeback single for either Tina Turner or Whitney Houston – both of whom Maria likes very much.

3. ‘I Wanna Say Yes’ is very old. Originally recorded before she started auditioning in front of Sharon Osbourne, ‘I Wanna Say Yes’ (alongside tracks ‘Inferno’ and ‘Rush’) was one of the reasons people were excited about Maria’s prospects as a solo artist. Stirring and sensual, ‘I Wanna Say Yes’ is the superior ballad over slushy ‘In The Middle Of The Night’.

4. Her cover of ‘Sign Your Name’ isn't all that great actually.

5. You can’t hear ‘Inferno’ or Rush’ on her site but both, ‘Inferno’ especially, are utterly amazing. She’d be a fool not to include them.

And on that note (referring to a singer we like very much as a fool), that’s all we have to say about Maria Lawson. Other than to suggest you watch the following video for ‘Breaking Me Down’ and agree with us, that as well as having some good songs, she is hardly burdened by the way she looks.




And you can listen to all her new songs at her website. Which is right here.