By Rya Backer
Did you have the sing-songy chorus of Estelle and Kanye West's Grammy-winning "American Boy" stuck in your head for a good amount of 2008? Well, so did Estelle. That's why she's happy to reveal that she's working on new material as we speak.
"I'm sick of singing 'American Boy,' so we need something else," the West London native confessed at a recent party for the fashion line Chloé.
Recently, Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio — who has produced work for Scarlett Johansson and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs — helped her record a track. "He's amazing," Estelle gushed, "I'm really excited. We just finished a song together. I listened to it all the way here. I'm having a moment. He's really, really cool.''
And when all the songs have been completed, what will the body of work be titled? "Right now, I'm calling the whole project New London," she said, " 'cause it's kind of [about] when I moved from London to New York and when my worlds collided and everything came together."
Although she's made a name for herself with hip-hop and soul music, listeners could be in a for a change in sound; Estelle foresees her next release sounding "somewhere between Marvin Gaye and Coldplay."
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