Lily Allen - This summers biggest racist?

No dumber than what its spoofing.

People who think Kanye named his album Yeezus without any self-awareness, consideration, or understanding of how such an album title would be received in light of his public image also probably think Sheezus is a clever spoof.

Wait, I thought it was joke?
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Their still both dumb.

it's really the worst feeling in the world when you make a stupid typo while calling someone else dumb

Gah!

It really is.

*leaves thread in shame*

ahhahahahah

why is this happening

bomb england

maybe it's a reference to how Woody Allen says "Jesus?"

http://edge-img.datpiff.com/m0663997/Remy_Ma_Shesus_Khryst-front-large.jpg

lily is going to struggle to top that. i can only hope i wld have such poise during my crucifixion

RTC OTM

(except there were only like three good songs on that)

The two have an unusual history together. Allen appeared on "Drivin' Me Wild," a 2007 Common track produced by West for his album Finding Forever. In 2011, West earned the ire of Allen after tweeting "An abortion can cost a ballin' nigga up to 50gs maybe a 100," he posted. "Gold diggin' bitches be getting pregnant on purpose. #STRAPUP my niggas!" The tweet has since been deleted, but caused Allen to reply, "Never has a tweet put me in such a bad mood. This is wrong on so many levels."

never has a tweet put me in such a bad mood

has all the music leaked in one place yet? Indiv songs seem to be all over the place

I'm not against someone hypothetically parodying Kanye's album title. In another world, I've released a mixtape named Wash The Throne (the cover has me as a janitor looking horrified into a bathroom stall). But if tweaking his megalomania is her goal, wouldn't it make more sense to name the album Leezus rather than Sheezus? Unless the joke is that she's taking it up a notch by assuming representation of her entire gender as well as messiah-hood?

she's saving her gender from scary rap music god i hate her

more likely she thought it was lolz and would garner publicity

Is remy out of jail yet?

I think the "she" just sorta brings in the gender aspect, points it out, and it sounds better than "Leezus." either way it's going to inspire a lot of horrible clickbait pieces so it is terrible.

which is what she was after

man, I had no idea that "Hard Out Here" actually did well in UK/Australia/etc, or that she'd released another single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo9Fja5x04o

recommended if you like ersatz mia, air balloons

Well I like it..

Btw, "Nan yr a window shopper" she has form

"Hard Out Here" was actually a bit of a flop sales-wise. 9-31-50 is not a typical Lily Allen sort of chart run in the UK (by comparison, "The Fear" spent four weeks at #1 and several more in the top 10). There was nothing special about its success in Australia - she's moderately popular and I would say a hyped new single with lots of controversy should have gone higher than #14.

I think they were expecting it to be a big hit for her but not to worry, I'm sure it'll be referred to as buzz single from now on.

Air Balloon is okay but the fact this will probably be a huge hit and the last Cher Lloyd single got to so little interest in the UK it was cancelled, just doesn't seem right.

Edwardo, in the US the song didn't even chart so I'm standing by my statesider's surprise at it reaching the Top 10 in European countries (however briefly) and going platinum in Australia.

There was that other single, that did quite well..

she's such an embarrassment and it's tremendous to see how easy she's making it for people to point & laugh. pretty obvious by now her heart's not in this comeback - it's not like there were (m)any ideas there to start with but the laziness is pitiful and transparent right now. i assume her many media mates will valiantly try to sustain this campaign but it's just making them all look shit as well.

it's funny, ed o wrote this about "hard out here" on the singles jukebox:

The video is just a visual version of Allen’s general MO, refashioning something “bad” or crass with an ironic wink, getting the benefit of its ideas without having to come up with her own, all the while acting as if she’s above her sources’ dubiousness or uncoolness and she’s just having a laugh because she’s better than that.

and she seems totally intent on proving him more and more correct

more likely she thought it was lolz and would garner publicity

I'd be surprised if it was any deeper than that tbh

Actually her PR has seemed a lot more interested in the other clients on the company roster recently (not as much sharing-about on social media as other acts, eg Kylie Minogue).

da croupier: spending one week in the top 10 in the UK is not even remotely like being a top 10 hit in the US. One week at #9, then out, that is a big disappointment for an artist of her standing, it's the sort of chart run you might expect from single 3 or 4. Also going platinum in Australia is nothing, you still have to sell 70k like you did 20 years ago, except digital sales are huge (singles used to be about AUD 7-8 except some priced at 4.99, now a digital song sale is one-third of that) and the population is 40% higher, so it's not that impressive (The really really big hits, believe it or not, go like 6-8 times platinum. "Party Rock Anthem" and "Somebody I Used To Know" both have sold over 750,000 copies, for instance, "The Fear" and "Not Fair" shifted about 120k five years ago which makes them about twice as big adjusting for sales inflation.

haha ok i apologize for saying i didn't realize the song did "well" overseas when obv that was far too reductive a statement, slander retracted

it was just weird seeing that performance called "doing well" when the most notable thing was how gigantic a flop it was

i'm honestly surprised the song didn't crack the Hot 100 just on viral trollgaze whatnot

I accept your apology on behalf of the millions of non-Americans who didn't buy the single either.

Thing is, "Air Baloon" sounds like it will be number one for a couple of weeks, thanks probably due to avoiding all that parody stuff.

"Hard Out Here" didn't do well in the charts, but as Mark G hinted at it's a bit unrepresentative to compare it to "The Fear" since "The Fear" wasn't released just after another much more successful Lily Allen single. I'm sadly sure that "Hard Out Here" would have done better in the absence of "Somewhere Only We Know" (which had 2 weeks at #1 and I imagine will now have to be a bonus track on the album).

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LOL @ this idiot

Can you imagine talking to her at a party

unfortunately that's all too easy

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haha croup otm

have to admit allen does make me think maybe ppl aren't being too hard on lorde

nobody tell her about redpillers, it will probably turn into a song

looks like "air balloon" might sell worse than "hard out here" lol

"lead balloon"

have to admit allen does make me think maybe ppl aren't being too hard on lorde

― balls, Friday, March 7, 2014 3:38 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from everything i've seen and read about these two women, lorde appears to me to be much more likely to listen to criticism of her work and actively learn from or reject that criticism - the way she has spoken in interviews about "royals" and the conflict she feels about some of the sentiments it supposedly conveys, is evidence of this. whereas allen scans to me as more of an amanda palmer or macklemore type figure, someone in the game for primarily self-aggrandisement, someone who chooses to engage with social issues but whose perspective is too littered with potholes and misfires to be workable.

i am also willing to give lorde a free pass b/c she is still a kid. if she's still writing songs about alienation that inadvertently scan to american audiences as racist at 28 (allen's age), then we should go harder on her.