Pop with Edge

BritKiwi singer Natasha Bedingfield (sister to Brit Award winner Daniel) is a welcome addition to an increasingly bland, Idol-dominated British pop scene, according to a lengthy Guardian feature. “[She] possesses that elusive balance of image and talent … Her looks tick the right boxes – wholesome enough for Saturday morning TV, sexy enough for men’s magazines – and her voice, unusually for a white, English pop singer, brims with R&B grit.” A Guardian review of her recent London show confirms the hype: “Natasha unshackles a gritty, blast-furnace style that, along with the dry ice that periodically billows across the stage, gives a foretaste of the arena act she seems set to become […] Bedingfield has no obvious British team-mates. The nearest equivalent is alpha female Pink, with a frosting of south London cockiness.” Bedingfield’s second single, These Words, repeated the success of her first – going straight to No.1 on the UK charts.