She called it All Of Me and that's exactly what it is.
Four years after her international breakthrough hit American Boy and album Shine, Estelle is back with her "most personal record yet".
Talking exclusively to tabloid! following her performance at XL Beach Club, the singer said, "I have been living and writing and this is what has formed All Of Me."
"It's a little deeper, it's more soulful. Someone just told me it's like a break-up album but I call it the album of how you get over a break-up.
"I decided to write when I was experiencing extreme emotion," she said. "So when I was happy, sad, crying, upset, glad. All of that. So I gradually got used to being emotional in front of people and gradually I didn't mind the feeling."
The first track from the album is Thank You, which was written by Akon, and is what the singer describes as a "be better, not bitter song". Finally, a mature take on a break-up song.
"I never want people who hear my music to feel worse off for hearing my song. So this was the perfect way to put it. Akon is an amazing writer. It's about sadness but finding the good which can come."
Difficult
The emotional, soulful ballad written by the Senegalese-American singer-songwriter Akon and produced by Jerry Wonda was a difficult one to record due to the tears, according to the London singer.
"To head into a studio and record an album, which forces you to deal with such raw emotion on a daily basis is hard," she said. "But it's not much harder after you get over caring what people think about you and just dedicating yourself to making the best song. Luckily, the guys are all family in one way or another, which was key to opening up."
Born of a Senegalese mother and father from Grenada, Estelle grew up in West London in a family of eight brothers and sisters and an extended family of cousins.
After listening to her parents' reggae records and her aunt's soul collection, she discovered hip-hop thanks to her uncle. "He was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy and my mum wasn't really happy that I was hanging out with him."
In 2004 she burst onto the music scene with hits 1980 and Free before teaming up with short-lived pop band 3SL for their single Touch Me Tease Me.
Right deal
When the record companies came calling, Estelle held out for the right deal, something she says she will never regret. "I waited on the right deal because labels are concerned with what's best for them, not you. You can't just take any deal a label might offer you. If you're going to put your heart and soul into it you better make sure you get yours."
But it was in 2009 Estelle that cemented her position when she won a Grammy Award for American Boy featuring Kanye West in the category for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, as well as receiving the MOBO for Best Newcomer.
Since then Estelle has done it all including a spot of modelling at Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief runway show for The White Ribbon Alliance to raise funds for mothers in Haiti. "Naomi called and you don't say no to Naomi," she said. "She's my generation's epitome of what elegance and power look like in clothes so it was an honour to be called. She also does work for charity. Which is something I think should be celebrated and applauded."
But critics beware, Estelle is one 32-year-old who doesn't take things lying down.
Her response to comments that her song International (Serious) featuring Trey Songz and Chris Brown sounds too much like American Boy?
"I think it sounds nothing like American Boy." Gulp.
"The song is about being international, which not may artists can claim to be," she continued. "I on the other hand have always toured and performed worldwide so this was just talking about that. All fun."
That's cleared that up then.
Go get yours
Estelle's All of Me is out now.
