estelle....???

abstractsound · Post by **abstractsound** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:28 pm

so just heard the american boy track with kanye west and im feeling the instrumental. wondering if she is a big deal over in the UK yet or whats going on with this artist across the pond..

started remixing that track and was wondering if people are going to recognize it.

dj-undecided · Post by **dj-undecided** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:37 pm

yeah its seems to be doing well over here, alot of radio play. search for the ts7 rmx, big big rmx

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:11 pm

Only good while she was working with Harry Love and the London people. American Boy is pop music, fair enough, but i dont like it.

chunkie · Post by **chunkie** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:30 am

she got fairly big back here a few years back with '1980' getting a fair bit of radio time - that was much more rapping and much less singing

american boy and even the next single have got a fair bit of air time and people jump it bcos Kanye is there

i think she's going to go top 10 album etc but she has changed a LOT since she was on the London scene and exchanging verses with blak twang etc

for a start, as many interviewers have said, 'whats wrong with english boys??'

joenicedj · Post by **joenicedj** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:47 am

That tune (American Boy) is smooth. Estelle has a very distinctive voice....you know it's her when you hear the voice.

She should have waited 2 more months to release American Boy.....that would have been the song of the summer.

Every summer has one....last year, "Umbrella" (ella ella ella) by Rihanna was the tune.

concept_ · Post by **concept_** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:57 am

perhaps Dubstep nerds are too underground to know that this song is No. 1 in the UK at the moment...

I think it is alright. I liked Estelle's stuff back in 2004 like 1980 and Free. At least she has shown she can last. I remmeber her coming on stage at Brixton Academy with Kanye West round about this time as well, so they known each other for long.

I think the song is produced by Will.i.am? Not a bad one in my opinion. It's a very wierd rhythm to it- Not typical pop. And what is with the way Kanye West says "rubbish"?w

skipple · Post by **skipple** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:24 am

I like the way she has kept her teeth the way they are,
and not gone down the carbon clone teeth styles of north america, that shit scares me.

ozols man · Post by **ozols man** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:06 pm

WHAT. IS. GOING. ON?

i dont want to be controversial but i swear this estelle chick is a mad shit singer. honestly when i saw her singing in this track with kanye i was in awe as to how someone with such mediocre talent got to work with someone as big as kanye,

i thought horses were gonna start eating men, honest to god

menacetosobriety · Post by **menacetosobriety** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:13 pm

ozols man wrote:WHAT. IS. GOING. ON?

i dont want to be controversial but i swear this estelle chick is a mad shit singer. honestly when i saw her singing in this track with kanye i was in awe as to how someone with such mediocre talent got to work with someone as big as kanye,

i thought horses were gonna start eating men, honest to god

Trust me that's not controversial. I concur with what you're saying

she is definitely mad shit at singing

Fair play to her though for going out there and making it happen

thought she had faded into obscurity for good

Well, maybe she should have

primate · Post by **primate** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:31 pm

S:E:L:L:O:U:T

estelle and blak twang are lost up the MTV's arse.... shame. can't see wildflower doing the same....

chunkie · Post by **chunkie** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:15 pm

to be fair commercial rap doesn't offend me and the only way majors will invest in UK talent is if they start seeing profits - estelle is one of the few uk emcees who could be successful enough on such a commercial level

simple facts -
had to be a female (a male emcee will not compete with equivalent US talent)
had to be able to rap and sing (capture the full rnb/hiphop market)
had to be have sex appeal (where miss dynamite went wrong)

there is not any US artist (at least not one getting played over here) that ticks those three boxes... so fair play to her and her label/management

dandy · Post by **dandy** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:32 pm

na i agree in that it is a pritty good tune, never used to feel her old stuff (perhaps i just ignored it as commercial shite) though with harry love producing not suprised if it were a success. though i do think she has a nice voice, the tune has interesting melody to it and doesn't have all the perfect tonal quality that all that rnb super produced wank usualy does these days.

slim · Post by **slim** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:42 pm

Arrgh, this song annoys the shit out of me. Although i do have to give her respect for not using auto-tune.

Kanye's lyrics are starting to piss me off too, far too repetitive and shallow, "rhyming" the same word at the end of a line works really well in grime (Bow E3... what can i say) but just sounds really pedestrian and half-assed in hip hop.

wub · Post by **wub** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:15 am

Estelle is an awful singer. Her live set on Jo Wiley a while back only emphasised that, it was like listening to karaoke in Streatham.

Kanye's are good on American Boy though, like the way he works in ribena, bloke, WAGs and all that.

Video annoys the shit out of me, mainly as I know I'll never be able to pull off a sheepskin jacket as well as him

soldjaaa_chik · Post by **soldjaaa_chik** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:52 am

1980 the year that god made me, 89 i started to get money!

old..tired...wasted....i do like her vocal on american boy tho...untill i found out it was her.

its one of them tunes u like secretly.

tru_g · Post by **tru_g** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:23 pm

Anyone heard her track from Hi Tek's newest album. A track called 'Life To Me' about her son/daughter

Deep tune, better than 1980 American Boy and everything else in between

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