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Natasha Bedingfield is releasing a new album for the first time in nine years.
The 37-year-old singer will drop her fourth studio album ‘Roller Skate’ on August 30 after a lengthy break following her 2010 album ‘Strip Me’ and the ‘Unwritten’ hitmaker teased that the new record will be “bright and bold” and will “move people”.
Natasha said: “I wanted to make music that moves people and makes them move, bright and bold but in a way that is also raw and honest.”
‘Roller Skate’ is produced by multi-platinum producer Linda Perry and released on WE ARE HEAR, the combination label/publishing/management company co-founded by Linda Perry and Kerry Brown.
Perry added: “I wanted to work with Natasha because she is one of the best live performers I have ever seen and has one of the most versatile voices I have ever heard. It was important to both of us to capture the true spirit of who Natasha Bedingfield is and we nailed it!”
Although fans have to wait for the album, the ‘Pocket Full of Sunshine’ singer has today (19.07.19) released her new single ‘Roller Skate’ and will give fans another taste of the album on August 2 with ‘Kick It’.
Despite her time away, Natasha recently released a special new remix of her iconic song ‘Unwritten’ for MTV’s The Hills and is set to perform a special version of ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ with the National Symphony Orchestra on Saturday July 20 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
Roll With Me is now available for pre-order. Album pre-orders include a download of the first track “Roller Skate,” which is available across Apple, Spotify (pre-save), Amazon and all DSPs.

Eve thought she would become part of a “friendly sisterhood” of female rappers when she entered the music industry in 1998.
The 40-year-old hip hop artist – whose real name is Eve Jihan Jeffers – was in a “bubble” when she started her iconic career 17 years ago, and the star has now revealed that although she never felt as though she was in “competition” with other women like Missy Elliot and Lil’ Kim, however, the record labels would pit them against one another to try and create drama between them.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, she said: “Before I’d met anybody, I always thought of it as this sisterhood. I thought we were all gonna be friends. It was not like that. I’d see Kim and say hi, and she’d be like, ‘Get the f**k away from me.’ Not verbally – you could just tell what she was thinking. But I was in a bubble and it never felt like a competition. I loved Missy and Kim but I never wanted to be them.”
The ‘Who’s That Girl?’ hitmaker praised her former record label Ruff Ryders for not forcing her to use her sexuality in a bid to help sell her music.
Eve added: “There definitely weren’t a lot of females out there, and the labels were basically trying to make you get naked. But with Ruff Ryders, it was always, ‘We like who you are, we’re not going to try and change you.’ ”
Eve is gearing up to release her as-yet untitled fifth studio album, her first LP since 2013’s ‘Lip Lock’, but she is a little “apprehensive” about the reception to her record because the music industry has “changed so much” in the time she’s been away.
Eve – who is married to Maximillion Cooper – said: “I’m not as stressed about what people think any more – that’s a great feeling.
“Sometimes, I’m apprehensive because the industry has changed so much. What does that mean for an artist from the time I come from – are people going to care?”

Lil Wayne has compared Tyga to Flo Rida.
The 36-year-old rapper is a big fan of both musicians and he loves that they both work hard to ensure every song on their albums can be a hit single.
Speaking to Billboard, Wayne explained: “I look at certain things. It ain’t about the music. I look at certain things and how he approached things. So the way that he approached the song was every song was supposed to be a single. Like every song is supposed to be a hit. I don’t wanna compare, but he reminds me of Flo Rida. Every damn song Flo Rida put out, we may have not heard of it and you may not hear it, but I bet you somebody overseas done heard it. I bet you it’s the No. 1 song on somebody’s charts. That’s why I like Tyga, he knows how to go in there and say, ‘No. This is song ain’t about to be No. 15 on an album.’ If somebody has 15 songs on the album, then we’re about to shoot a video for all 15.”
Lil Wayne is currently on tour with Blink 182 and he praised drummer Travis Barker’s “swag”.
He said: “Man, Travis, plain and simple, his swag is great. He knows what to do with that. Once he gets behind that drumset, boy, it ain’t about nothing else. Music is music. Once you hear that drum, he knows what he’s doing. Again, it’s his swag, he knows how to relate. He’s a cool kid, though.”
And he admitted that he is enjoying playing to a new type of audience on the tour.
He said: “I mean, there’s a huge difference in crowd energy. Those folks they’re there to have fun and that’s not to say that when we go to hip-hop shows that we’re not there to have fun – but you know, we also fly and we don’t wanna get too sweaty, and we don’t wanna look too crazy. You know, we don’t wanna lose our minds. They don’t have none of those restrictions. They wanna look too crazy, they wanna get sweaty and they wanna lose their minds.”