Natasha Bedingfield is straight out of the U.K. school of "pop" pop star:antipodean, Anglophile and almost annoyingly attractive. Lay thatalongside the fact that her career took off after brother Daniel's "GottaGet Thru This" had twitched and pleaded its way to legendary status in theU.K.'s burgeoning 2-step scene (not to mention the top of the charts), andit's easy to see how the London-bred New Zealander struggled to be takenseriously at the outset, despite her debut release "Single" making it toNo. 3 in the U.K. in May 2004. But then "These Words" hit the airwaves andany residual doubts about Natasha's staying power evaporated as shestormed to the top of the British charts. Her debut album Unwrittenembraces a diverse number of genres and is held together by Bedingfield'sevident interest in pop songwriting (and much vaunted studies ofpsychology), but where her career develops from this point is anyone'sguess -- after her brother's near-fatal car crash in New Zealand in 2004,she can be forgiven for taking some time to reflect.
