"Outta My Head" is a song recorded by British singer-songwriter Leona Lewis for her second studio album Echo (2009).
The chorus of "Outta My Head" was compared to the works of Australian singer Kylie Minogue and German group Cascada due to its Eurodance style.
"Outta My Head" was written by Savan Kotecha, Max Martin and Shellback, with production done by the latter two, for Lewis's second studio album, Echo (2009).
[8] Michael Cragg for musicOMH complimented the song for lifting Echo's overall feel of being "mundane", and that it is an "obvious highlight" of the album.
[6] Nate Chinen for The New York Times thought that Lewis was trying to show musical relevance with songs such as "Outta My Head" and "Love Letter", but achieves it with mixed results.
[10] As part of his review of Echo, Matthew Cole for Slant Magazine wrote that he was unimpressed by the "novelty" of Lewis' impressive vocals, writing that she uses the higher registers of her voice too much.
On nearly every track she can be found cooing impossibly high melodies over bouncing club beats ('Can't Breathe,' 'Outta My Head') or imbuing the ballads with thick, powerful choruses to match their outsized string arrangements ('Broken').
Although he thought Lewis' vocals are "technically unimpeachable" on "Outta My Head", it is the artistry behind it which fails to deliver.
[1] For the week beginning 14 December 2009, "Outta My Head" debuted and peaked at number 98 on the Slovakian Singles Chart.