Trivia / Natasha Bedingfield

• Creator Killer: Despite international success at the beginning of her career, following in the footsteps of her already successful older brother Daniel, her popularity became almost exclusively concentrated in North America by the time "Pocketful of Sunshine" came out in 2008. As a result, advertising for her Strip Me album focused primarily on the US and Canada, but the album and its singles flopped badly on the charts, and things didn't improve for her when she finally released "Pocketful of Sunshine" in Europe, three years after its American success. Her planned fourth album, The Next Chapter, finally came out in 2019 (now under the name Roll With Me), seven years after its original announcement, to little success.
• One-Hit Wonder: She is definitely not a one-hit-wonder at pop, but at country, her only success was backing Rascal Flatts on the #3 hit "Easy" in 2011.
• Two-Hit Wonder: In 2006 and 2008, she had two hits in the U.S. with "Unwritten" and "Pocketful of Sunshine" respectively, which both peaked at #5. Two more songs, "These Words" and "Love Like This", made the Top 20, but are forgotten today. Afterwards, she completely fell out of the public's eye outside a 2011 guest appearance on Rascal Flatts' "Easy" (#3 country, #43 pop). She is more successful back home, however.
• What Could Have Been: Based on ASCAP song registrations, what eventually became Roll With Me was in production as early as 2017 (back when it was known as The Next Chapter); some of the songs listed were registered back in 2010 (presumably having been written during the sessions for Strip Me), while others were new. Some of the songs were created in collaboration with Colbie Caillat. However, none of those songs made it to the finished album. One of the unreleased songs, "Me Around You", was briefly heard in a video clip on Bedingfield's Instagram in 2018.

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