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.


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…