Natasha bedingfield why

I just feel inspired by the bravery. When did you first feel connected to that community? Did you have many gay friends growing up? I was brought up in church.

I was brought up with faith and a belief in God. There was just a lot of things about it that were quite restricting, and my parents wanted to protect me.

But sometimes that was harmful. However well-meaning, it can kind of cause a belief that the world is evil. I guess you call it repressed. So, for me, I think I relate because some of my sexual feelings were quite repressed growing up, feeling that something is bad, like the female body is bad, sinful.

I want my son to be kind, and I want him to see the world and to love people. A lot of people I know have been to therapy and have had reasons in their life to really know themselves and I love that. Well, I write from my own life.

My brother pop artist Daniel Bedingfield was a star, and I was the younger sister. And I like to write about things that matter. Everyone gets to be. We should be talking about that more and that should be more important than all this other stuff that we give so much attention to. Yeah, I went to India one time early on in my career and met these children at orphanages. Natasha Bedingfield performs with the TikTokers who created a viral dance to 'Unwritten'.

Save FB Tweet More. Natasha Bedingfield. Bedingfield agrees. And I felt like I could really trust Linda. There are moments speaking to Bedingfield when she sounds incredibly LA, with her vaguely mid-Atlantic accent and enviable sense of ease, or her references to loving yoga and sunshine. But when the topic of her next musical chapter emerges, a bit of self-doubt can be heard in her voice, hinting at the fact that despite having Perry on production duties and the genre blurring evident throughout Roll With M e, she is still striving to do something weirder in the future.

I wish I had the guts to be like Radiohead, because they always take a risk, and they really do write the stuff that is right on the edge, and I feel like I have always written songs that are… more accessible at the start.

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That's what entertainment is all about," she said. You get goosebumps. You want to move. You can't help but move. Yes yes yhop! The legend of "Unwritten" begins in with a "little poem" tucked away in Bedingfield's trousers. Then just 21 years old, the young Brit traveled to Los Angeles to work on her debut album. In the studio one afternoon, Bedingfield mentioned that she had written something for her younger brother.

What do I wish that I'd heard? The concept was simple: Life is a blank page and you hold the pen. But it was met with little enthusiasm. They wanted to write more sexy songs," she explained. The next day, Bedingfield had a session with producer Wayne Rodrigues and songwriter Danielle Brisebois, whom she'd never met.