Just like I missed out on the 2007 summer hit ‘Umbrella’ and discovered Rihanna about a year and a half after the fact, somehow Estelle’s ‘American Boy’ passed me by in the summer of 2008. I guess this is what I get for not listening to the radio (or, as is often the case now, listening to fruity XM stations like ‘The Coffee House’ that play the same alterna-safe artists in constant rotation).
I don’t know much about Estelle other than her nationality (British) and that she had an international hit with this song. Kanye West joins her on the track but I don’t believe either of them wrote it. It was produced by Will.i.am, who is quite good at this sort of thing.
Meet Me In Montauk 