{"id":2813,"date":"2025-03-24T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2025-03-26T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:40:24","slug":"major-00s-star-returning-to-music-with-nature-songs-after-being-sexualised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/major-00s-star-returning-to-music-with-nature-songs-after-being-sexualised\/","title":{"rendered":"Major 00s star returning to music with nature songs after being \u2018sexualised\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charlotte Church is planning to release more music (Picture: Jeff Overs\/BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A major 00s popstar has vowed to release new music in 2026 after feeling ‘sexualised, patronised, and ridiculed’ as a teenager.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Church<\/a>, now 39, rose to national fame in the UK as a classical singer at the age of just 13 with her debut album Voice of an Angel.<\/p>\n

After leaving her classical origins behind, Charlotte rebranded as a pop singer-songwriter <\/a>in 2005 and landed four top 20 hits within 18 months.<\/p>\n

She also hosted her own talk show between 2006 and 2008 before judging a BBC<\/a> Wizard of Oz auditions competition called Over the Rainbow.<\/p>\n

However, at this time, Charlotte became a target of intense media attention, which left the Crazy Chick singer feeling ‘sexualised, patronised, and ridiculed’.<\/p>\n

She left the music industry in the early 2010s<\/a>, only sporadically self-releasing music between 2012 and 2014, but has now promised her first new album in 15 years.<\/p>\n

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It’ll be her first album in 16 years by the time it’s released (Picture: KMazur\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking to The Guardian<\/a>, she said: ‘I\u2019m going to release an album, hopefully in 2026. I want to sing about nature, healing and sisterhood. I want to create experiences to really make people feel.’<\/p>\n

The upcoming album is said to be inspired by The Dreaming, the health retreat centre Charlotte opened in 2020 that allows visitors to ‘heal through experiencing beauty and wonder’.<\/p>\n

She explained: ‘In the morning, I\u2019ll [visit an on-site yurt] and sing to the land. [The song] can be whatever you want it to be.’<\/p>\n

Charlotte revealed that she founded The Dreaming as a way to recover from her experiences of spending more than a decade in the public eye – the majority of her fame came in her teens.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte’s personal life became a tabloid target (Picture: Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘[The Dreaming allows me to] cocoon and to heal my wounds inflicted in that exposure. I was made such tabloid fodder for such long periods of time – lots of people just saw me as a celebrity.<\/p>\n

‘A p***head celebrity, really. It was a time with lots of misogyny flying about, especially towards working-class women, or women who were outspoken.’<\/p>\n

In early 2002, around the release of her fourth studio album Enchantment, BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles pledged to lead Charlotte ‘through the forest of sexuality’<\/a> after her 16th birthday.<\/p>\n

Speaking to comic and actress Kathy Burke about that time, the former classical singer said: \u2018There was this shift where I became fair game.<\/p>\n

‘Of course, it wasn\u2019t good. At least it was out in the open. That lads lads lads culture was prominent, it was very simplistic, it was unashamed and it was just out there.’<\/p>\n

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‘I was made such tabloid fodder for such long periods of time – lots of people just saw me as a celebrity.'(Picture: Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She continued: \u2018Whereas now, it\u2019s somehow become a bit more underground and a bit more dangerous.\u2019<\/p>\n

Even after leaving the music industry, Charlotte still faced widespread public scrutiny, with an appearance on Question Time in 2015 sparking backlash in some quarters.<\/p>\n

After the singer raised the point that climate change played a role in war, she recalled: ‘It was all over the papers. Voice of an Angel, Brain of Angel Delight. I\u2019ve been made into this caricature: sexualised, patronised, ridiculed.’<\/p>\n

Charlotte released four classical albums in total between 1998 and 2002, scoring two top 10 albums, before pivoting towards singer-songwriter pop, landing her another top 10 album with Tissues & Issues.<\/p>\n

Her transition towards the pop market saw her land a top three hit with Crazy Chick and three further top 20 hits with songs Call My Name, Mood Swings, and Even God Can’t Change the Past.<\/p>\n

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