Estelle’s been moaning to Celebs On Sunday about being misquoted by The Guardian – if you remember the story, she apparently dissed both Duffy and Adele for not being soulful enough. Run that through the headline-o-meter and the context seemed to imply that she was saying that them there white folks had no business singing soul songs.

She says in her missive that people

have created feuds between me and other artists. Adele and me, we have no beef, and I’ve never met Duffy.

But I think ‘Mercy‘ and ‘Chasing Pavements‘ are pop songs, not soul songs, and people have translated that as me saying, ‘White girls can’t sing’.

It strikes us as a little bit ironic using the traditional press to contradict how the media twisted her message. And so long after the interview was originally published back in March.

Let’s face it, if the media mangled her message the first time around, why should she trust them to get it right this time? Maybe the mini-controversy that the news generated at the time helped sales of American Boy? No, we mustn’t be too cynical, must we?

Estelle, if you want a direct line to your fans – to tell them about your music and to correct nasty headlines – maybe consider taking a leaf out of Lily’s book and starting herself a wee blog. Heck, even her American Boy collaborator – Kanye West – has a pretty cool blog going where he likes to share his interests and occasionally rant about things that are bugging him.

Get yourself a blog, Estelle.