Talk about a complete style change. Singer Estelle has traded in the Kanye-Erykah Badu, dirty backpack style of R&B for a stint on the dancefloor with the new single “Freak” featuring Kardinal Offishall.
The Salt N' Papa meets M.I.A.-esque track was produced by the very busy David Guetta (whom she worked with on the track 'One Love' off his album of the same name) and has the U.K. singer talk-rapping over a club-friendly beat beat and even brings in Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishall to spit 16 bars. It's got that Baltimore underground club style that I love and I'm sure old school heads like myself will notice the Soul II Soul sample in the background to give it that urban edge. I'll be honest with you I wasn't really a big fan of Estelle's music, but if she has more songs like this on her upcoming third album, I just might go out anf buy it. My only worry is that since dance music is slowly making it's way into the American mainstream, it will become watered down and unlistenable like alot of hip hop that currently spreads is plague throughout radiowaves. Everyone is doing dance music that is produced by either David Guetta or RedOne. Maybe Jennifer Lopez needs to hook up with one of them. She'd be guaranteed a hit (for once).
Estelle’s album All of Me will be out later this year.
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