Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

[VoR]

Also getting a big chart comeback at the moment thanks to an appearance in a current hit movie (Anyone But You)



In my head I know it was only released a couple of years after Murder on the Dancefloor, but somehow the realisation that this is also almost TWENTY YEARS OLD shocked me much more. I guess because I was already in University when this first became a hit.

 

[Halli]

 

[KindaCool]

I'm always excited to see this song until I remember who sings it. I don't know what it is about her...

 

[VoR]

There's always a Kelly cover...

 

[RJN]

I think I’ve heard this song at least once a week since it came out

 

[VoR]

I do personally prefer Pocketful of Sunshine, but this is clearly her signature hit.

Funny how her actual UK #1 These Words feels so much more forgotten comparatively.

I was so obsessed with this performance at the time. VOX.

 

[Ellie]

Dreadful. I didn’t used to mind it all that much until seeing that terrible film. It’s a lot worse than I remember.

 

[GNL]

Funny how her actual UK #1 These Words feels so much more forgotten comparatively.

A much better song though. I find this one is a bit DRAB.

Happy for her having a bit of success though. I saw her play at a pride event last year and she seemed delightfully unhinged.

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

I like it but prefer These Words.

 

[Inner Smile]

Wild Horses is forever in my heart

 

[Inner Smile]

Oh thought it was about the album

 

[Inner Smile]

Unwritten song is MINT though

FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN

 

[POP!]

Iconic obviously but not a big fan of her first album singles.

 

[Lee]

Nice but a bit bland. I wouldn’t skip it if it came on but I wouldn’t actively seek it out.
Also much prefer “These Words”.

 

[Pipo]

That Babies song really killed her career IMMEDIATELY, what a wild time!

 

[Suedehead]

Diabolical.

 

[jivafox]

Reminds me too much of The Hills to separate it as a real song.

The video with the little book is the better one though!

 

[Suedehead]

She should have stopped at Single really.

 

[octophone]

That Babies song really killed her career IMMEDIATELY, what a wild time!

It really did. And not unfairly - it was absolutely diabolical.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Are we going to have to suffer some piece of GARBAGE resurfacing for every Murder On The Dance Floor that charts again?

 

[Sheena]

ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS APPALLING SHITE

 

[lolly]

ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS APPALLING SHITE

What's the story?

 

[untilted]

Good pop song imo. It’s woefully cheesy but I can’t deny it’s good pop!

 

[octophone]

ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS APPALLING SHITE

Well, someone clearly needs to drench themselves in words unspoken.

 

[Suedehead]

Good pop song imo. It’s woefully cheesy but I can’t deny it’s good pop!

Well I certainly can.

 

[untilted]

Well I certainly can.

She delivers a PASSIONATE VOX

 

[Sheena]

What's the story?

She was always just my most hated popstar. I say that with 2024 eyes and that I was perhaps a BIT MEAN considering I know FUCK ALL about her personally, but her music is absolute DRECK. I can't stand anything she's ever done- maybe apart from the first single, which was bland rather than appalling. The only other person I can think of is that it was like early Katy Perry- I just could not understand how it was so successful when it was all so FUCKING BAD.

 

[Suedehead]

It's funny you say that.

In many ways UNWRITTEN may have given birth to FIREWORK.

 

[Sheena]

It's funny you say that.

In many ways UNWRITTEN may have given birth to FIREWORK.

Both EXCRUTIATINGLY SHITE.

 

[Suedehead]

Can you imagine a Natasha Bedingfield and Katy Perry duet.

The collision of those ANGULAR voices!

 

[Suedehead]

What happened to her TEDDY BEAR brother?
Would you like to hold hands with him on the beach (naked)?

(if you know you know)

 

[Pipo]

oh dear, those endless essays about Daniel Bedingfield filled with sexual innuendos bring back so many memories.

EDIT: though those were nothing compared to the vomit inducing fan fic about SHANE'S HAIRY CHEST

 

[Sheena]

Remember when he tried to claim he was straight and married to a woman?

 

[Inner Smile]

Firework is one of my most hated songs of the past 20 years

 

[Jark]

Iconic obviously but not a big fan of her first album singles.

I listened to them all today (don't ask) and I agree basically. Single has aged horribly. These Words is twee. Unwritten has undeniable hooks and the best vocal.

she definitely upper her game big time with Pocketful of Sunshine though. easily her best song, it's weird that her career fully died like one year after that smashed.

 

[Inner Smile]

Pocketful was fantastic but there was so much on offer at the time

 

[Halli]

Her first single was called SINGAL (out now)

 

[POP!]

I listened to them all today (don't ask) and I agree basically. Single has aged horribly. These Words is twee. Unwritten has undeniable hooks and the best vocal.

she definitely upper her game big time with Pocketful of Sunshine though. easily her best song, it's weird that her career fully died like one year after that smashed.

She seemed to just have a bit of an identity crisis. Pocketful was an obvious hit, but between that, Love Like This, and Soulmate, those could have been three different artists.

 

[Ellie]

Her first single was called SINGAL (out now)

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[Alex]

Are we going to have to suffer some piece of GARBAGE resurfacing for every Murder On The Dance Floor that charts again?

Can we have GARBAGE resurfacing please, “Why Do You Love Me” For number 1