Natasha Bedingfield - NB- Tiscali Music Reviews

30th April 2007

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Natasha took the US by storm last year with the first British chart topping hit by a female in almost twenty years. Vanity Fair singled her out as the spearhead of a new Britpop invasion; she became one of the faces of Gap (alongside Mia Farrow and Common); she was invited by her hero Prince to jam with him at a private party; Bono enlisted her for his (RED) campaign; and her song 'Unwritten' proved to be the most played song on mainstream American radio in 2006. She now returns to the charts with her sophmore album, 'N.B.'.

'N.B.' is very much reflective of Natasha being in a different place from her debut, proving that affairs of the heart, although difficult, make for excellent song-writing material. Each track on the album explores a varying stage of a relationship story, and the issues, experiences, and processes that come with these stages: from the lonely place of never feeling like you will fit with anyone ('Soulmate'), through the flirting, dancing stage where you feel you might ('How Do You Do?'), to the moment at which the game playing ends and open honesty prevails ('Say It Again'). Never one to mouth empty platitudes or re-hash well-worn cliches, Natasha's gift for creating pop music that does not sacrifice intelligence on the altar of universal appeal prevails throughout.