Natasha Bedingfield ft. Sean Kingston - 'Love Like This'
Personality is a much underrated thing in modern music, too little, and no-one remembers your name, too much, and you're just plain annoying. And watching singers work out the right amount does create an interesting tension between artist and audience. The more an artist wishes minimise their own quirks, and sound like other artists that they personally admire, the less of their own personality they put into their songs, and the less interesting their music becomes.
Natasha Bedingfield has always had enough raw personality to fuel a medium-sized coal-fired power station for weeks. It spreads across her music like hot jam falling out of a freshly-baked tart, and is just as hard to shake off once it gets stuck to you. The refrain from 'I Wanna Have Your Babies', for example, is still waking me up in the middle of the night, such is the pervasive nature of its madness.
So, even though this is very nice summery soul jam, and Natasha is giving her tonsils a very thorough workout, it sounds so much like other things which are coming out of the US these days that it just comes across as a bit bland. I mean it really says something about a song when the most interesting part is when Sean Bloody Kingston breaks out his tracheotomy-vocoder for a few bars of...not much, really.
More of the total madness next time, please Tash. It might not help you make inroads with your new American friends, but it will at least be an honest representation of who you are.
And that is DANIEL BEDINGFIELD'S SISTER! IT'S GENETIC! YOU CAN'T HIDE IT!
Download: Out now
CD Released: March 3rd
(Fraser McAlpine)
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