The new Natasha Bedingfield video for “Love Like This” tries so hard to point out that she and teen sensation Sean Kingston aren’t a romantic couple that it actually calls attention to the oddity of a 25 year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy singing about love together. The song itself is a fluffy, island-tinged pop number that is pleasant enough and doesn’t seem strange at all.
However, the video keeps making it clear that Bedingfield has her own individual, age-appropriate “love like this,” who is so totally not Kingston. Sure, he sings about “making you my wifey,” but they’re seated on a piano rocking from side to side in an oh-so-platonic way, so that’s not really possible. Then, to drive the point home the final shot is of Bedingfield and her video boyfriend, who is so totally not Kingston.
We get it, Tash isn’t robbing the cradle. No worries. Couldn’t they have avoided all this drama by simply not pairing up either one of them and just have them singing the song while other couples cavorted around? The video is such a weird way of freaking out about a problem that didn’t really seem like one in the first place.
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I think the video is good but I did wonder myself about how the video would end up - a love song when he is allot younger than her. It is aimed at the teenage girls of america - and I think it will work for them.