It just kind of came together and we didn't talk about who it would be for." We just wanted to write a really good pop song. "I was writing with The Invisible Men - I love them," Natasha explained. With 18 Number 1s between them, that's a lot of female star power. Pop fans were shocked when it emerged that Cheryl's Top 40 comeback Love Made Me Do It had her, Girls Aloud bandmate Nicola Roberts, Natasha and Kylie Minogue listed as co-writers. Most notably, Cheryl released one of Natasha's tracks in November 2018. In the interim between albums, Natasha has enjoyed songwriting both for herself and other artists. I got to a place of writing music for executives." I was writing music for myself and my fans and then executives had a certain idea of what they think. The creative part is not so important anymore. "I feel a lot of artists have experienced labels being in that more insecure place. The American label and managers were a bit arrogant. We had the brilliant idea of having an American manager who would work with the English one but then they didn't work well together. There was a back-and-forth between the American and English labels and they couldn't figure it out. "I was signed in England and then my music started taking off in the States. "Honestly, there was a bit of label politics," she sighs. The truth, Natasha says, was label politics saw her "caught in the crossfire" from which she never fully recovered. The latter wasn't released in the UK, and there was a feeling that she'd abandoned the UK in a quest for global stardom. She then found success in America, landing two Top 5 singles with Unwritten and Pocketful of Sunshine. A further six Top 40 hits followed, including chart-topper These Words. Natasha scored her big breakthough on the UK charts in 2004 with Single, her "declaration of independence" that peaked at Number 3 on the Official Singles Chart. Everyone expects it to sound like your other thing. "Sometimes if you've had some hits, you end up chasing them and writing something that sounds like 'you'. I feel like writing an album with one person and letting that person produce it, that's given me a freedom because it's let me explore a different side to myself. "I'm so excited to be releasing music - it's been a long time coming. "I feel like I'm in a really great space," Natasha told when we met up with her in London. Roll With Me was co-written with and produced by the legendary Linda Perry, the writer behind the likes of P!nk's Get The Party Started and Christina Aguilera's Beautiful. Natasha Bedingfield is back! The Noughties hit-maker hasn't released an album since 2011 but is back with her fourth collection Roll With Me, released last Friday (August 30).
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