Album: Unwritten (2004)
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, Natasha Bedingfield plays the assertive type, telling a guy she's into exactly how she feels about him. He digs her too, but has trouble expressing it, stumbling all over his words, which Bedingfield finds endearing.
  • This was written by Greg Wells and Shelly Peiken (Wells also produced the track). Peiken had credits on two #1 hits for Christina Aguilera: "What a Girl Wants" and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)"; Wells went on to co-write Lindsay Lohan's "Confessions Of A Broken Heart (Daughter To Father)" and Kelly Clarkson's "I Do Not Hook Up."

    In a Songfacts interview with Peiken, she listed as one of her songs with a very distinct point of view. "It's a song about just being so into somebody, knowing they're into you, and they're just stumbling over their own feelings," she said. "I never heard that written with the girl calling out the guy for stumbling on the words all the time."
  • This song appeared on US copies of Bedingfield's debut album, Unwritten; it's the only track she doesn't have a songwriting credit on.
  • The song's producer, Greg Wells, played all the instruments on this track except the cello, which was played by David Low.

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