Lily Allen - This summers biggest racist?

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observer music monthly's 'favourite myspace band'?

wow kewl.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link

lex, i'm with you on this -- can't be naffed to actually hear her stuff either. i challenge you to hold out on this one till she's unhep.

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 08:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Dear ILM,

Keep on hyping please. I've bought two tickets for the Bush Hall gig on July 18th and I want to rake in some eBay £££.

Cheers,

― anonymous trout, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link

LDN is off the net/her MySpace because of you! (ok, maybe)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link

people who like pop in 'the wrong way' like it

What does this mean?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 12 May 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

From her blog:

a couple of girls were pushing me back saying "we were here ages ago, you can't just push to the front" and i almost felt like hiding there in the crowd and not doing the show at all, but politely I said " I've gotta sing though"

that sounds like hype to me

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 12 May 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I know her press officer and really, he's got much better things to do than pseudoblog on MySpace (he is usually busy looking after Kylie and the PSBs). FWIW Keith Allen has kids by different mums, and Lily lives with her mum not far from me, in a normal neighbourhood.

What I do like is that she is already promising to be a gobby wee shite in interviews.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Close readers of the Observer this weekend may have spotted this -- but that looked awfully like Lily Allen on the cover of next week's Observer Music Monthly.

― alext (alext), Monday, 15 May 2006 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Her reactions to the critics do seem really honest, I think:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=36707169&blogID=120647233

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=36707169&blogID=120705431

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 15 May 2006 06:41 (eighteen years ago) link

However, reacting to criticism in public = DUD.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 15 May 2006 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link

But it happens a lot (round here)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Ok, that's true... I guess it's a subjective thing. (round here) is less public than a MySpace page that has had over a million page views - also, it feels less dud if the artist in question has already had a career for a while (e.g. Nick Cave writing Scum about Nick Snow).

Haven't thought this one through, to be honest. Why do I feel it's not a smart move on her part, especially because her career is only starting, but it's awfully honest and endearing at the same time?

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link

ok i have heard lily allen now, she sounds like the kaiser chiefs/ordinary boys (ie fucking awful). of course she has commercial possibilities, she is in exactly that vein of nme indie-ska which is all over the charts right now! and like everything else that genre has vomited up she's appalling.

stop calling her pop!

also please come back britney.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Alex that's a bizarre comparison though! She's totally in the space between The Streets and Ms Dynamite - precisely, the exact space between "Dynamitee" and "Let's Push Things Forward". How is that anything at all do with Kaiser Chiefs or "NME indie-ska" (whatever that is?!?!)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:41 (eighteen years ago) link

she's in the same vein as the streets, yes (i hate the streets! she is more like recent streets than opm, too), but i'm not hearing ANY dynamite (or indeed lina) in what she does at all.

it's that oompa-oompa ska vibe in all of the songs i've heard (not all of them, i couldn't be bothered after a while) which really puts me off.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, once it's out, it'll be everywhere. It's true.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I get the feeling the reviews are trying to categorise you ... and not quite getting it, because they are used record label manufactured acts, with well-trained PR etc

lololololololololololololololololololololololololol

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link

dear spambot: I believe in you. Do you really have so many websites? What's your favourite?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://f.chtah.com/i/43/393014865/omm_may_head.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 May 2006 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link

She's already being mashed up! (with Busta Rhymes, in this case)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 19 May 2006 08:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Also headlined on that OMM cover--Pele and Justin Lee Collins (or that other one with a similar name) bcz people don't want music in there music mags.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link

the mixtape is quite awful. her songs were ok however.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

she looks like an Eastenders actress

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link

oh god omm is breaking an act.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 19 May 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link

The MySpace questions must pop up, too…

"Oh yes. I love MySpace , it’s done an amazing job for me and it’s been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I’m not a poster girl for them. And as much as newspapers like to say I got signed because of MySpace, I actually signed my deal in September last year and I set up my MySpace page in November."

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 19 May 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I was at the Lily gig at YoYo last thursday, and it wasnt as bad as people were making out. Yes the sound was bad, but the crowd had a great time, and Lilys voice shone through.

pics/review at http://www.musiclikedirt.com

― neil365, Monday, 22 May 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

That OMM article was horrid. "I had a really hard upbringing". OK, fair enough, posh people can have rough times being brought up as well. What incidents scarred the young Lily for life?

Sometimes she handed her homework in late, and she used to get dragged to dinner parties.

....

Yeah, those were the main concerns I had as a kid as well, it speaks to Lily's strength that she managed to come through those two monstrosities. Maybe a new postergirl for Childline?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 May 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I quite like the music of 'LDN' but I dislike the Londoncentric sentiment of it all.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 22 May 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Keith couldn't help her with her homework because he had to ponce about with a load of monks for a New Order video, that's why it was late?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 22 May 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

i posted this elsewhere, but basically, if you take the downward spiral of lady sov's singles thus far, and fast forward five years or so on the same trajectory, you end up with lily allen.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Having listened to her mixtapes, i'm pretty unimpressed and not interested in this buzz. sounds ok and poppy but I really don't see why all the fuss.
anyone who thinks this is better/more exciting than the coming nelly furtado's singles is crazy.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

good point re Furtado.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I really haven't missed those mp3's AT ALL since I deleted them :|

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

interested - or has the backlash really kicked in :

http://www.lilyallenmusic.com/music/demos/csd23dsms7/LilyAllenMixTape2.mp3

also - i suspect i am not the only one - but the album is now out there doing the rounds - better or worse than expected ?

currently i am not in mood for this, but initial spins reveals a lot of easy reggae loops, and, while it will be perfect when in the right frame of mind, the compact 37 minutes playing time seems just about right.

track listing :

smile
knock'em out
ldn
everythings just wonderful
not big
friday night
shame for you
littlest things
take what you take
friend of mine
alfie

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still interested in the album actually, but can wait for the CD.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

ooooh.

i best qualify - when i said "doing the rounds" .. i meant proper promo cds - not those naughty ILM banned kind of areas of the net.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

when i said "doing the rounds" .. i meant proper promo cds

so it's "out" by tomorrow then? okays

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm kind of thinking we need a thread for the death of the "promo" lately. It certainly changes music mags/websites less powerful, opining on near everything a month or more after everyone has already heard it.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I think there is one already actually but it was kind of ... zzz

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

proper date : july 17th.

and is the death of the promo a totally bad thing ?

i think not (unless nicely packaged like this one is), in fact the days when the letterbox doesn't rattle are actually my favourite.

jaded, me ? too fuckin' right.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's a news story about the album from the NME

http://www.nme.com/news/fat-les/23205

I only post it for one reason. Can you tell what it is?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link

To remind us to add Fat Les to our MyNME Artists?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

You are on the munny.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"Is there money in the box?"
"No, I'm in here myself."
(Billy Connolly, Solo Concert, 1973: "Glasgow Accents")

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Lily Allen to sample "D.I.V.O.R.C.E." for next single, plans to mention her rough upbringing in a Romanian orphanage on it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd like to hear her tackle "Nobody's Child" in the Glasgow pub singer style.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, this mixtape is kind of a guilty pleasure...

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

does anyone else hear a watered down lauryn hill here?

― Idle Idle (idleidleidle), Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Seems kind of sly way to promote the album (and her). Cool by association you know, mark e I'm getting the impression the album itself is not going to be to this what Aruler was to Piracy Funds Terrorism??

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 1 June 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh god the Kaiser Chiefs cover.. nooo! And the gunshot stuff, ffs. Not from a nice actors daughter please.

I am so off this bandwagon right here. Fuck one summery pop record I'll find another. UGH. I have a limit.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 1 June 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

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