Such success did have its downsides, however. “Unwritten” was even the most played track on US radio in 2006. Bedingfield earned a Grammy nomination, and her music would become a regular presence in romantic comedies, adverts and Grey’s Anatomy. “Unwritten”, which would go on to become the theme song for the classic MTV reality show The Hills (a remix has been used for its recent revival), is marvellous, with a gorgeous emotional build that makes you want to rip open the windows and sing it to the skies.Īnd represent she did. “These Words”, “Single” and “Pocketful of Sunshine” are all lovely bits of early-Noughties pop-R&B that almost work as low-key gospel numbers, while the derided “I Wanna Have Your Babies” may be lyrically strange but is also playful and masterfully structured. One of the most frustrating things about listening back to Bedingfield’s early work is how genuinely brilliant a lot of it is, and therefore how boring it was to sneer at it back then.
But it is also true that the US treated her music with far more respect than we did here, so why wouldn’t she decide to make it home?
She describes LA as a “songwriting mecca”, and a place where “the lyrics really flow” for her. Today, the 37-year-old still has a home in the UK but a mostly permanent base in Los Angeles, where she is married to an American and is the mother of a young son. Her new album, Roll With Me, is her first in nearly a decade. Not for as long as many people in the UK claim that it did, but it was still lengthy.
After her initial success, it seemed to all go quiet.
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