I was very loved, but I don ’ t think I was the main attraction (laughs). My brother (pop artist Daniel Bedingfield) was a star, and I was the younger sister.

Why is it important to you to write about and for the underdog? A lot of people I know have been to therapy and have had reasons in their life to really know themselves and I love that. What I ’ ve found from the LGBTQ crowd is they ’ re definitely a very self-aware group of people. I ’ m so happy that he has such good influences in his life. He has his gay uncles and Linda Perry (Bedingfield ’ s sole producer and co-writer on Roll With Me ) is one of his godparents, and she ’ s a lesbian. I want my son to be kind, and I want him to see the world and to love people.

How has the way you grew up influenced how you raise your son, Solomon? So, for me, I think I relate because some of my sexual feelings were quite repressed growing up, feeling that something is bad, like the female body is bad, sinful. However well-meaning, it can kind of cause a belief that the world is evil. There was just a lot of things about it that were quite restricting, and my parents wanted to protect me. I was brought up with faith and a belief in God. When did you first feel connected to that community? Did you have many gay friends growing up? I feel like the strength it takes to tell your parents that you ’ re gay despite rejection takes such a strong character, and I feel so inspired because it helps me realize that the things that I ’ m afraid people might not like about me, I can stand those. You know when you sing your brain is on the left brain, and when you ’ re talking it ’ s on the right? It ’ s insane, man. Pop songs, they ’ re easy to sing, they ’ re entertainment, but when I sing for an LGBTQ crowd, there ’ s this understanding because I think that (laughs) … sorry, my brain. I feel like my gay audience understands my lyrics more than anybody. OK, let me just first say, I do shows all over the world, but when I sing at a gay club or at a Pride, I just feel such a strong connection. ” How have you learned to accept yourself because of the LGBTQ community? In 2017, you wrote a Facebook post celebrating Pride and said, “ I have learned so much about love and self-acceptance from my gay friends. Nine years after her last album, Strip Me, Bedingfield, 37, returns with Roll With Me, a collection of socially conscious songs meant to empower and uplift. ” Now if only it could be rewritten, because our dire, disharmonious reality is weighing even on Bedingfield, who can ’ t exactly chirp about sunshine in her pockets – at least not when she ’ s experienced the rain and the clouds too. When Natasha Bedingfield found fame in 2004, what would become of the world was, as she sings on the hit song that established her pop-star status, “ still unwritten.

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