NEWS : Robin Thicke And Estelle Ride The Rollacoasta

Written by Hattie Collins on 9 Feb 2010

RWD popped Los Angeles last week, and while there we caught up with our old pals Robin Thicke and Estelle.

The pair were filming the video to Thicke’s next single, Rollacoasta, featuring the American Boy singer. Set in a house full of champers, nekkid girls and a DJ (sounds like a standard RWD party to us), the pair seemed to be having a ball.

Though his star is ascending in the US, Thicke told us he’s still waiting to get love from the UK media – hope this helps Robin! Perhaps hooking up with Stelly will give the singer that props that he deserves over here..

“Can I see myself going more global with the success of this album (Sex Therapy)? I don’t know,” he told us. “My first album, the one that no one knew about in the States, was my most global album. UK, Amsterdam… it was Top 5 in Australia. My first album had more international appeal – plus I had the long hair. International loves the long hair,” he laughed. “So I’ve gone backwards internationally, and in America I started really slow but my rise gets bigger and bigger. I still feel underground in the UK. I can go there and sell out a few nights and do great, but it doesn’t seem like the mainstream or radio or TV have picked it up as much as the people have. I was amazed that I’d sell out two nights at Koko in Camden, and I can’t even get my video played out there. But…”

As for linking with Estelle, here’s what he had to say: “Working with Estelle is going great, she has such an amazing personality. Her soul just has this light; she’s wonderful. We worked together opening up for John Legend, years ago in Europe. She was amazing then, a great girl, and then American Boy came out and now she’s ‘Estelle.’ But when she and I toured together we were both still pretty much unknown so I feel this kindred spirit with her because we toured together before we both made it. So it’s cool that we’re able to hook up and make this track.”

Robin talks babys, Jay-Z and Nicki Minaj in the next issue of RWD, out soon…

Rollacoasta is out in April.

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