How good is 'American Boy' by Estelle?

it makes me proud to be an american boy

i get a halfy when she says "i'm gonna like whats underneath them"

also kanye on that song

what's your unarbitrary reasons for liking it

I get a cringe at said line. So clunky and unsexy. Missy would have handled that so much better. xp

Speaking as a well-known Kanye fanboy, this is the most annoying Kanye's ever been.

Yr a fanboy?

id consider myself a kanye fanboy but i really wish he'd gtfo of this song

http://www.jasonbarbacovi.com/images/fan_man_2_s.JPG

not a fanboy, not yet a fan_man

kanye is both funny great ("rrruuubbish") and funny awful ("before he speak his suit bespoke") on this

"tell 'em wha gwaan blud!" is the best pop moment of 08

"rrrruuubbbbish" and "ca-ah-assh" nearly ruin this but don't.

the cash line is the best bit of kanye's rap, it's reassuring and conspiratorial

this is one of those songs where ppl seem like they're trying real hard to come up w/ arbitrary-ass reasons to dislike it, aka 'some dude' disease

-- deej, Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:09 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lol i was going to argue with this until I remembered that my biggest criticism of "American Boy" is that it reminds of the theme from Green Acres.

apple + f reveals that deej has yet to give a reason at to why he like this song

egchk my 9 am sentence construction and spelling are worse than normal

we do have this though

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kanye sounds sad :(

-- deej, Friday, March 28, 2008 2:51 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

he's a lot bloody happier on this than he is on 'put on' or like half of graduation

i don't mind this song so much but when it's high up on all the year-end lists i'm gonna whine and grumble. and possibly harrumph.

how does kanye sound sad!? is this one of those things where people hear every song since his mom died as being about that or affected by that even if his verse might've been recorded before that ever happened?

if you hate this song u hate fun sorry

Estelle needs to stfu with all this "When American rappers say that the UK can't be ghetto, I take them to HOLLOWAY ROAD" shit as well.

^^dont know what this means; dont care ♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♪♪♫

this song isn't remotely fun

Estelle needs to stfu with all this "When American rappers say that the UK can't be ghetto, I take them to HOLLOWAY ROAD" shit as well

Perhaps she took 50 Cent to the Swimmer for some seared duck breast and quails egg salad.

^^dont know what this means; dont care ♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♪♪♫

-- gr8080, Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:37 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

xp :(

this song isn't remotely fun

challopian boy

It's the number one challopian sound
Yeah, Estelle we about to get down

as said before, the general throwback jazzy sophistopop vibe of this is good - dr buzzard's i'd said before, but chuck swing out sister or freeez in there too i guess - but, to be frank, estelle has been an annoying uk gobshite flop for years and years and years now, and the thought of her being all smug about her supposedly rightful success is enough to kill this tune dead. so yeah, dom otm basically.

also the ppl who get all happy about the excruciating uk refs - SHOOT ON SIGHT.

"tell 'em wha gwaan blud!" is the best pop moment of 08

-- lex pretend, Thursday, 14 August 2008 10:19 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

chk-chk, BOOM

i prefer 'Wait A Minute (Just A Touch)'

New HHC has Excalibah interviewing Blak Twang and there's three or four references to "off the record discussions" between the two about how Estelle got her US connex. Anyway fancy rumourmongering?

xxp

also the ppl who get all happy about the excruciating uk refs - SHOOT ON SIGHT.

-- r|t|c, Thursday, 14 August 2008 17:22 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

F'real.

UK trying too hard to be ghetto again.

dentists be cheaper there?

kinda amazed the reverend hates this btw

ain't my problem if you dudes like irredeemably wack obnoxious bullshit

ok rtc but you still shouldn't be hating on the last verse of the "Get Silly" remix

yeah rev that's what i thought you liked!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_with_Ross%27s_Wedding,_Part_One

dentists be cheaper dentists be cheaper rtc lookin boy

oh ha didn't realize you didn't like this either haha

this song is nice. it's just some light breezy lil' summer song. i don't get why dudes are so bullhurt about it.

anyone have a problem with the production on this or is it just lyrical qualms?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZIyEFONms8

^^ throwing get silly rmx open to the general british public

3 missed calls and i'll change my mind

i like the production fine, rev otm when he said 'impatient' was better though

this song is nice. it's just some light breezy lil' summer song. i don't get why dudes are so bullhurt about it.

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:30 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this

yeah...i don't like it much, but my distaste for it isn't very strong, and sometimes i'll listen to it and enjoy it a little...but it's pretty obvious that there are a lot of cultural factors at work when brits argue forever about this song, not really a mystery there.

this is still a great song with a jazzy vibe and as a result i will forgive kanye's terrible lines

anyone have a problem with the production on this or is it just lyrical qualms?

-- blueski, Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:32 AM (Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:32 AM) Bookmark Link

naw, no problem with the production (although I liked it better as house than as pop), but I have as much or more problem with the vocal performances as with the lyrics