

It’s her sales pitch that freedom and self-realization all comes from a trip to the ocean, going hiking or whatever. But it’s not the watered-down dance-pop or Natasha Bedingfield’s blinding optimism that makes me roll my eyes. Ryo Miyauchi: “Let Go” is tropical house in the sense it’s basically an ad jingle for getaway vacation. But “what Natasha Bedingfield did on her holidays” also doesn’t prove exciting. Still, it is otherwise on-trend, with its jugful of Tropicana and resemblance to the best 1D debut to date, and for those it’s enjoyable. Forget that she has a script that auto-favourites random tweets containing the word “unwritten”, this is 2017, and she has a curiously “Sandals advert”-style, sunny optimism about it. And if you think that’s a bad start to a review, remember that those words are her own. Scott Mildenhall: This is her current single.


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