Lily Allen - This summers biggest racist?

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.

new track contains actual couplet "we're all watching gaga / L-O-L and haha"

such a sparkling wit she possesses

but seriously she is the actual worst and why, still, do i see people riding for her, surely it is time for even her fans to be turning away in sheer fucking embarrassment

I will stan for some older Lily Allen, but this go-round confirms she should've stayed retired.

Still like some of that last album (Especially The Fear and Chinese) but this comeback really has not been great at all.

This interview is full of annoying moments

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lily-allen-talks-motherhood-online-haters-and-her-new-lp-sheezus-20140410

Her pretending Hard Out Here wasn't a single is the strangest part.

You made it clear that you weren't happy with the label over their choice of singles from your album.
It wasn't their fault. I would love "Hard Out Here" to have been a single, but you can't have a song that has the word "bitch" in it 72 times on the radio. It's just not gonna happen.

I'm sure if it had been a hit she'd be referring to it as a single. With this way of thinking that means the Keane cover has been the only actual single from this album so far (even though she's already had four singles from it)

A lot of the stuff I've heard from this new album has had a real "write a poem in Grade 4 English" class vibe to it, where end rhymes always trump a melodious meter or the use of natural expressions.

The newest single with the video of her in the cab with body doubles is probably the best thing I've heard from the project but when that's a bloodless, flimsy imitation of "We Can't Stop" you have to wonder what the point of the comeback is supposed to be.

xpost I don't think it's actually on the album..

But people that are probably less fortunate look at me and think, "Well, she's got everything. She's had everything. It's been handed to her on a silver plate." It's just not true. I've been through some really, really awful things that other people haven't been through.

:o

When I heard that I tried to think of another pop sing in history that talks about periods. I couldn't think of one.
[Laughs] It's groundbreaking! I'm proud of that. It's fucking awesome. I think that "period" is going to be my "surfboard" with Beyoncé. People will wear sweatshirts to my concerts that are just going to say "period."

the ignorance :o

Tell me about the song "URL Badman." What inspired that?
I wrote that after I put out the video for "Hard Out Here" and everyone said I was racist. I was really alarmed by that reaction. I stand by that video and I know what my intention was and I'm sorry that people interpreted it in a different way. A lot of that negative stuff came from females and the feminist blogger scene. What really pissed me off was the misogynistic, hipster, male bloggers that went after me in a completely different way. And I just thought, "Fuck you, I'm going to write a song about you."

lmao the white tears

I do feel like Twitter is melting my brain.
What worries me more is Instagram. We're in the age of the Selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people to perceive you. Think of when people are partying and having fun. They're like, "Hey, look at us!" You're obviously not having that much fun because otherwise you wouldn't be stopping to document it. It's stupid.

omg the utterly clichéd technophobia that i've seen a million times before and should definitely not be indulged in by someone who happily is on instagram taking selfies

LOL, she's sorry we feel that way. I'm sorry her ex-boyfriends in the media won't countenance other women criticising her, but there you go...

Glad we have lily allen to take a stand against the vanity. Now who will do something about the intemperance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kPQiAJv4fo

that was already posted: GTFO rolling worst music of 2014

I'm sorry her ex-boyfriends in the media won't countenance other women criticising her

Who they?

that video looks cool and i don't hate the beat or her voice. lyrics are so dumb tho, like really really lazy

like a linoleum floor

http://www.nme.com/news/lily-allen/78740

surely it is mere coincidence that URL Badman has not made the R1 playlist

/url badman

lol

"Maybe the songs aren’t good enough this time, who knows?"

I know. They aren't.

Hang on, R1 gave her a whole hour last night to play whatever she wanted. So is she including herself in this critique?

lol i just noticed what the first song she played in that hour was

"started from the bottom"

wow no shame is impeccable

its exactly alright still by a 33 yrs old mom

Sounds like rough draft of a Xgau review

“this summer’s biggest racist”???

Thread title was altered when the Sheezus videos came out.

reluctantly admitting that i'm enjoying a lot of the new album. i guess she's my charlie puth of 2018

I guess I should check this out since Piers Morgan is a hater on the basis that my enemy’s enemy is my friend.

This album is actually really good. And I thought I detested her. Lolz on me.

track one = best thing she's ever done.

it was the "hard out here" video that precipitated the title change i think

Yeah, I think it should be changed back - there's worse than that out there these days

as opposed to 2013, when Lily Allen was the worst racist in the entire world

It was "biggest hit" originally. Move on rather than back? This summers biggest bid for career rehab?
A side-poll is probably required.

Thread title always makes me chuckle.

it was the "hard out here" video that precipitated the title change i think

― dyl, Sunday, 10 June 2018 13:58 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lets not forget her tweeting a photo of cock dressed up like a golliwog to azealia banks

Seems weird for a mod to editorially change a thread title like that (if only for how it changes the context of the original posts, etc.); but I’ll assume that fight has been fought

Most Improved Racist 2018

She gave a really good interview on, of all places, Seth Meyers' Late Night show podcast, and got into the Sheezus era a little bit and how she was flailing and unsure of herself and was basically making choices based on committee approval. It doesn't excuse some things, of course, but it does answer some questions.

I hope this thread doesn't force me into thinking I need to listen to a Lily Allen song.

STOP CHANGING THREAD TITLES.