Natasha Bedingfield - Roll With Me
by Zena Grieg
published: 22 / 10 / 2019

Label:
Proper Music
Format: CD
intro
Reinventive first album in nine years from bestselling British singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield
The versatile, self-reinventing singer Natasha Bedingfield has released her first album in nine years. Bedingfield has sold over ten million albums and ten million singles worldwide, her infectious rhythmic pop sound netting her Platinum artist status, a Grammy Award nomination for ‘Best Female Pop Vocal Performance’ and multiple Brit Award nominations for Best British Female Artist. She has performed with a wide range of people including Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow and Jon Bon Jovi. ‘Roll With Me,’ her fourth album was nine years in the writing. It is produced by multiple platinum producer Linda Perry. Bedingfield says this album is "about being free to be who you are. It explores things like making a relationship last while not losing your sense of self." No single musical genre characterises this record. It moves easily from pop to R&B and on to reggae, exploring personal and public themes. The tracks range from an ode to a first child, ‘King of the World’ to ‘Hey Papa’ on gun violence, and ‘Everyone Come Together’ which is "a response to an increasingly divided world." Different moods pervade ‘Roll With Me’, but there is a cohesion in the instruments used, set against Beddingfield’s confessional lyrics. The message is for people to have fun and "let the music take you somewhere and go along for the ride."
Track Listing:-
1 Kick It2 Roller Skate
3 Everybody Come Together [feat. Angel Haze]
4 Hey Papa
5 King Of The World
6 It Could Be Love
7 Where We Going Now
8 Can't Look Away
9 Can't Let Go
10 No Man I See
11 Sweet Nothing
12 I Feel You
13 Wishful Thinking
14 Real Love
15 Roller Skate (Acoustic Version / Bonus Track)
16 Kick It (Acoustic Version / Bonus Track)
17 Hey Papa (Acoustic Version / Bonus Track)
18 King Of The World (Acoustic Version / Bonus Track)
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