Bedingfield's lyrics focused on independence, opportunism and female empowerment. The album contained uptempo pop-rock songs and influences from R&B music.

And I also just love Bon Iver, that’s always my cosy music.Her debut studio album Unwritten was released in September 2004 and featured collaborations with Steve Kipner, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lachey, James Reilly, Andrew Frampton, Wayne Wilkins, Kara DioGuardi, Guy Chambers, Patrick Leonard and the rapper Bizarre. It’s a new one, but over lockdown I’ve kept coming back to it. The album I’ll never get bored with during lockdown The theme is that music and technology is connected to us, and even though we’re alone we’re all together.” It’s totally good to dance to – and funnily enough, in the video we’ve got a whole bunch of people from all over the world doing a TikTok dance. “I’ve just recorded this song for a really fun animated movie called Jungle Beat: The Movie.

‘Why’ is a sad song, and it would leave everybody questioning. “You were making me go to a dark place this morning when I was thinking about this one! I saw Annie Lennox speak at an event – and when she talks it feels like he ground is shaking, there’s this sort of wizard energy that she has. But also, my younger brother Josh just released a song and it’s been on a lot around the house.”

“Right now, because I’m a mum, it’s all the kid’s songs and they drive me crazy! All the nursery rhymes, all the PAW Patrol. I don’t like singing other people’s songs very much.” I don’t like not being able to hear myself! I like being able to sing my own songs. I don’t like karaoke, a lot of my friends do it, but I guess I’ve been spoiled with really good sound. “I do songs by Aretha Franklin as she’s got similar range as me. When I sing that song at my shows, it changes the whole show and the energy in the room.” “It feels like a magic spell, like it’s opening up the heavens. Her songs were like “ I don’t want to go to rehab” and “ back to black”, whereas my songs were like: “ I love you, I love you, I love you.” It was interesting to come out at the same time, and she definitely reminds me from home.” We had our first hit songs at the same time – and it was interesting because we were polar opposites. “I remember going to the Jazz Café and watching her sing before she got her beehive and it all took off.

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