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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Natasha Bedingfield featuring Sean Kingston "Love Like This"


Looking to the US charts to find the perfect duet partner to spark her Stateside audience's interest, Natasha's decision to go with Sean Kingston is a bit questionable. Yeah, he had one of the biggest jams of the summer, but when she's old and gray and looking back at her catalogue, will she be proud or embarrassed that she at one point graced the same record as Mr. Kingston?

An extension of Kingston's favorite past-time (reminiscing over the greatest loves of his life), "Love Like This" finds Natasha stuck on a guy she's known since they were kids. The people around them might not understand their union ("My friends they always told me/ Not to make you my wifey," Sean sings in that distinctive tenor of his), but with their paths continually crossing and other partners unable to compare, Natasha is ready to stop fighting fate.

Since the song isn't all that much of a stand-out on it's own, it's pretty R&B backdrop and Bedingfield's soulful Brit-soul phrasings pleasing if a bit routine, Natasha should be thankful she nabbed Sean Kingston, his fitting accents adding some much needed sparkle to "Love Like This". But it would have been much impressive for her to get him to guest on her loony UK single, "I Wanna Have Your Babies". Hearing him try to protect his precious sperm from her maniacal advances could've provided something a lot more memorable.

DL: "Love Like This" (YFH)

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