Lily Allen - This summers biggest racist?

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And anyway I think that any explicit and exclusive futurism position on pop music is pretty hard to maintain at the moment, when it feels like almost every big pop genre is so retro at the moment! Dancehall be rootsy, R&B/hip hop are obsessed with funk, UK pop is reviving electro or doing genre pick'n'mix (Xenomania)... Even crunk and grime are basically in holding patterns, and reggaeton is kinda like two steps back one step forward.

If we're going to talk about what pop does well currently - and then punish Lily for not meeting that standard - we have to talk in terms more sophisticated than FUTURISM = GOOD / RETRO = BAD.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 2 June 2006 23:44 (twenty years ago)

reggaeton is kinda like two steps back one step forward.

that's the actual reggaeton beat, i think.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 3 June 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

haha, i love reggaeton but i have no idea what these steps forward that it's taken are!

i also like all of lady sov's singles to varying degrees and don't understand what downward trajectory she's supposed to be on.

'ch ching' (incredible sunship production + blistering performance from sov) => 'a little bit of shhh' (again magnificent - "OH MY GOD PIANOS!") => 'blah blah' (still great but not as OMG as the first two) => 'random' (fantastic pop song but too much of a sense of reining herself in) => '9 to 5' (oh dear ska, but at least it's catchy) => 'hoodie' (basement jaxx fail to provide magic spark, entire world is like wvs) => '9 to 5 (ordinary boys rmx)' (GAH GAH ABORT MISSION AARGH)

that's why my first point of comparison for her was nelly furtado. who i also like.

this makes sense yes - old-nelly rather than nu-nelly, anyway. and the only old-nelly song i like is 'turn off the light'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 4 June 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

"haha, i love reggaeton but i have no idea what these steps forward that it's taken are!"

None! I meant that it only finds novelty (one step forward) by focusing on a rhythmic idea that's been floating round the carribean and central america for ages.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 4 June 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there another SOV single after Hoodie that bombed so bad even ILM only briefly registered it's existence? "Public Warning" or something it was called?

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 4 June 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

lily allen sound like something i would hear on alt rock radio in like 1996.

― h.s.art? (artdamages), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

but thats comiung form an american obv. can someone explain cod-reggae to me?

― h.s.art? (artdamages), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

1996=2006

just wait a couple of years. everything will get good again...

― h.s.art? (artdamages), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

She's on TOTP next week, you guys.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 June 2006 06:45 (twenty years ago)

"Can't wait" (copyright: Fearne "Cockernee" Cotton)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 5 June 2006 07:22 (twenty years ago)

This w/end I have heard Lily Allen on Radio 1, 6music and on Radio 2 -- the commercial potential of her stuff has been very carefully judged.

― alext (alext), Monday, 5 June 2006 08:07 (twenty years ago)

And "Sunday Surgery", Mr Doctor hadn't heard of "Lovers Rock" which Ms DJ was describing "Smile" as.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 June 2006 08:14 (twenty years ago)

Don't doctors have better things to do with their taxpayer-funded time than distinguish between popular music subgenres?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 5 June 2006 08:16 (twenty years ago)

R&B/hip hop are obsessed with funk, UK pop is reviving electro

BOTH are reviving electro innit.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Monday, 5 June 2006 08:43 (twenty years ago)

(this informed by 'the hits' playing 'sos', 'lose control' and 'looking for a perfect beat' all in a row.)

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Monday, 5 June 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

SOS by ABC, Lose Contol by James, and "Looking for a perfect beat" by ah o bollocks to yer.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 June 2006 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Leapy Lee wasn't it?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 5 June 2006 09:07 (twenty years ago)

Leapy Lee wuz innocent!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 June 2006 09:22 (twenty years ago)

It was that Marty Wilde who fitted him up!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 5 June 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Here's the video for Smile:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vws9Yp_tZbE&search=lily%20allen%20smile

― davidsim (davidsim), Monday, 5 June 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

well

that's not fun

― rtccc (mwah), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

the probable album cover :

http://images-cache.cd-wow.com/images/1/1149750591_big.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 9 June 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

More unimaginative Photoshop clutter that probably took all of five seconds to put together.

And the sleeve's not very good either boom boom.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 9 June 2006 06:30 (twenty years ago)

the gun sounds on 'Truth' are so, so dud.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 9 June 2006 06:30 (twenty years ago)

That sleeve is rather hideous... still not as bad as the last Red Hot Chili Peppers one, which was possibly the worst cover for ten years or so...

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I see the album version of "Knock 'Em Out" (wisely) drops the AIDS joke at the end.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

singin quite well live on TOTP right now. 'Smile' is OK. there's this sense that this is what Corrine Bailey-Rae should sound like even tho technically she's probably the better vocalist overall. i was going to say edge but obv. CBR has none and Allen's is barely tangible itself. sweet enough to not render a song like this a bland waste of time tho.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

She's either refusing to look at the audience, or she's going for the wrong camera angles. 'She's better than Sandi Thom' opines my sofa-companion.

― alext (alext), Sunday, 11 June 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

dude, being whacked in the bollocks with an electrified hobnail boot would be better than sandi thom.

dermot o'leary obviously has a thing for her, judging by a throwaway comment on his R2 show yesterday afternoon ("keith allen, my future father-in-law").

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 11 June 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nme.com/news/lily-allen/23316

Shooting Dullards down: Lily Allen

Pop newcomer Lily Allen, has spectacularly dissed former Libertines star Carl Barat and indie darlings The Kooks.

Writing on her blog, the singer declared : "Boys, your regurgitated indie rock days are numbered so get over yourselves."

,,,,,,,,,,

spectacularly sez the NME, more like common sense !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Yep boyz, Kaiser Chiefs covers are the FUTURE! Get used to it.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

"Boys, your regurgitated indie rock days are numbered so get over yourselves."

Lily sees no end in site for her 15 minutes.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

'site'?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

tonite tonite

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Bag of site.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

chantelle fiddy v lily allen BEEF!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Lex, i'm sort of blown away by how hilariously trite that story was.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

i agree, and it's the most interesting l allen-related thing yet

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

someone (nb not lily) needs to do an r&b song about it

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it could be Frankee's comeback single?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

omg that Fiddy anecdote is PHUNNNYE!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

At 1:43 PM, lilyallen said...

do you make this shit up for fun ? if youre gonna hate on me , at least speak the truth .Even if your garms were late , I would never say anything like that to anyone . Grow up , wastewoman .

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I really love the assumption of consensus in Fiddy's post that a piece of clothing bought three years ago is automatically out of date, but a piece of clothing bought seven years ago is "vintage" and therefore stylish!

Maybe Miquita wore the seven-year-old jacket three years ago as a hand-me-down from her mate's older sister?

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Chantelle: i have to pee
lily allen: your jacket is out of style
the internet: omg

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

what the hell, this thread. you crazy. you crazy, go BAM!

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

The words "children" and "please" spring to immediate mind.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 06:59 (twenty years ago)

What, do you want her to have your children?

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8236/lily4se.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:12 (twenty years ago)

(er... yes, that's the bigger version of the cover art, by the way)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:13 (twenty years ago)

something wrong with the chin

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:16 (twenty years ago)

What I want is for record companies to use what little sense there is left in their heads and spend their resources on musicians, not jumped-up floozies with influential mates.

If you want to be arrogant, it helps to have something to be arrogant about.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:20 (twenty years ago)

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