"A hit song usually sticks around for about three months, and then it's done," says Caryn Ganz, deputy editor of .īut "Unwritten," co-written by Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois and Wayne Rodriguez, was released in 2005, and it's still blasted regularly on the radio. In recent years, it's become increasingly difficult for a song to have real staying power. At one point, the crowd was singing so loudly that Bedingfield began to chuckle.
But I was too wrapped up in the warm, feel-good vibes to care. "No one else, no one else, can speak the words on your lips/ Drench yourself in words unspoken/ Live your life with arms wide open/ Today is where your book begins/ The rest is still unwritten. There I was, a married woman in my early 30s, crooning like some wide-eyed pre-teen at her first slumber party. The song that refuses to die more than two years after its release.Īnd as Bedingfield sang "Unwritten," a four-minute self-empowerment seminar set to a catchy melody, the room erupted into one giant karaoke session. The song that opens each episode of MTV's hit show, "The Hills." The song that's featured in a ubiquitous Pantene commercial. Bedingfield, after demands for an encore, returned to the stage and sang the song. What about The Song? Had she retired it? Was she going to pull a Madonna and act like she was so beyond her old hits? She closed the show with her album's title track, said her good nights and left the stage.ĭelight quickly turned into despair. She was alternately determined, ferocious and optimistic as the crowd, a mix of gen-Xers and millennials, watched in utter delight.
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