Natasha Bedingfield has spoken out against the “very mean” treatment of her brother, Daniel Bedingfield, during the height of their fame in the mid-2000s. The “These Words” and “Unwritten” singer burst onto the music scene in 2004 with her anthemic ode to relationship freedom, “Single”. However, her elder brother Daniel had already achieved commercial success a few years before, scoring a Number One with his garage single “Gotta Get Thru This” in 2001.
In a new interview with The Telegraph , Natasha, 42, spoke about the impact of media attention on her and Daniel while in their twenties, suggesting that there was a media narrative that intentionally praised one sibling above the other. “The paparazzi were always kind to me but they were very mean about my brother, just because they couldn’t have two siblings doing well at the same time,” she explained, before noting that Daniel’s experience with fame also clouded hers. “It’s interesting what that does to a culture because even if they’re not mean to you, there’s a threat that they could be and you end up living in that fear.
That culture keeps you well-behaved – in the same way that religion does. There’s a threat of going to hell or someone turning on you and hating you.” To cope with such feelings of pressure and potential judgement, Natasha said that she tries not to internalise commentary about the things she does, whether the comments are positive or otherwise.
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