Lily Allen - This summers biggest racist?

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Lex, I'm pretty sure you'd like her. LDN really is irresistible, although some of the other songs do get corny after a while.

someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

she is KEITH ALLEN'S DAUGHTER.

gasp.

william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

you can see the likeness

Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

but hopefully not hear it

Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

actually she looks a lot more like her Uncle Kevin (ulp)

Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm about as sure that this is really any good as I am about M.I.A. or Uffie (damn, I don't begrudge Feadz making some money but oh, Peaches what hath thou wrought?!) but I'm finding it hard to hate, maybe a little twinge of jealously! I think I'm in love! *downloading mixtape right now*

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, she kinda rules.

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I fear this is the target Lady Sovereign has been spectacularly failing to hit for the last year.

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

You see, aren't you glad I spread the word!

E-clex
www.eclex.bravehost.com

E-Clex (E-Clex), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It's reminding me of a slightly more credible Jem now :(
Not so good.

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

You see, backlash even before the record is out!

someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

It's better than Jem (rofl @ that recommendation), but I'm more keeping a cheek on the fence that I am backlashing ;)

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought this was gonna be an e-street team thread. she's the featured artist on myspace right now.

firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

it probably is

s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

1) featured artist on myspace

2) "I'm in the Sun today and the Daily star"

MEH.

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Video here:
http://exodus.interoutemediaservices.com/?id=adcf5599-9460-457a-aeeb-d9f3fc39a0a8&delivery=stream

She is, I think, unstoppable.

Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I think she's fab, btw.

Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

lilly allen makes me wanna puke... she's a fucking dick.. her myspace profile looks like an add for go airlines.,

endoftheline, Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

She's absolutely awesome. Whether she's 100% authentic or totally fabricated, I'm still impressed. Her mixtape was really sweet and quite clever I though.

Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

("thought")

Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I love that mix too, not looking forward to reading even more rubbish about the "myspace effect" though, although the Keith Allen connection might wise some people up to the fact that she's not exactly lacking for industry connections. Or access to her dad's record collection...

http://static.flickr.com/50/131662583_baa8e6850b_o.jpg
the lily allen effect = cuteness >>> my critical faculties

fandango (fandango), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

She's playing Notting Hill Arts Club on the fourth of May and the three following Thursdays. I might go along. If any other ILXors moght, then give me an email, as I can't imagine any of the pitifully small circle of Londoners I've met thus far will be up for it:

live: Lily Allen (pictured), Big Roe, Ashok
decks: Lily Allen

Tonight Lily Allen is starting her Yoyo May residency. For an (almost) 21 year-old artist, she has been getting around somewhat! Freshly pictured for Vogue Magazine her music is sweet, fun and bringing together a whole host of influences. Lily is rumoured to be on Top of the Pops later this summer, so do come and see her close up while you still can before she goes Number 1. Especially since these are her first ever live appearances! Can't get any better now, can it....

Every Thursday, 6pm-2am, £5
NO TICKET PRE-SALES PLEASE COME DOWN EARLY

Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 April 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

no credence on mixtape plz

jergins (jergins), Monday, 1 May 2006 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link

interview with lily here: http://squirrelfood.net/index.php?entryid=171

will calhoun, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

she is KEITH ALLEN'S DAUGHTER.

:(

You'll Never Put a Better Bit of Butter On Your Knife (Dada), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

she looks like dastoor

-++-+-+-+, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Michael Carroll - This summers biggest hit?

You'll Never Put a Better Bit of Butter On Your Knife (Dada), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

LDN = damn catchy

StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

She's spammed here before, and I'm sure this is her brother or cousin or something, but whatever. I listened (so the spam worked), I thought it was ok. Not my thing. The original tunes were catchy, but the "mixtape" on her site was garbage -- no mixing skills whatsoever.

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

By the way, calling an artist no one's ever heard of "this summer's biggest hit," his not the most effective way of cloaking your spam.

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

the mixing on the mixtape is pretty bad. but the song selection's nice enough.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

She's absolutely awesome. Whether she's 100% authentic or totally fabricated, I'm still impressed. Her mixtape was really sweet and quite clever I though.

I like that we've set this dichotomy up early.

deeej, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

What if she's 75% authentic but 25% fabricated, like she's got a cyborg arm?

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Anybody got a tracklist for the mixtape (which I like fine; it's sort of like the mixtapes I make: bunch of songs I like)? This is what I get so far:

(1) Lily Allen "LDN," (2) Dizzee Rascal "Fix Up, Look Sharp," (3) some woman who isn't the S.O.S. band or Deborah Cox or Shabba Ranks or Rebel Princess doing a fetching reggae version of "Just Be Good To Me," (4) Lily Allen doing another of her songs, (5) Ludacris "The Potion," (6) Some Wu Tang–related thing (ODB? Clinton Sparks?), (7) some dancehall guy, (8) another dancehall guy, (9) Montana Slim? "My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby"? (10) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Born on the Bayou," (11) Lee Dorsey? "Get Out My Life Woman," (12) Rod Stewart/Faces "Stay With Me," (13) Squeeze? "Up the Junction"? (14) a Lily Allen original, (15) some grimish thing, (16) Specials "Friday Night, Saturday Morning," (17) some funky dubby thing, (18) some sweet French Europop thing, (19) Janet Kay? "Silly Games," (20) another Lily Allen original, (21) some junglish dancehall thing.

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link

By the way, calling an artist no one's ever heard of "this summer's biggest hit" is not the most effective way of cloaking your spam.

Frank Kogan, this summer's biggest hit. (I've been spamming here daily.)

(And more people have heard of her than have heard of me. She's getting 30,000 plays a day on her Myspace page.)

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"(3) some woman who isn't the S.O.S. band or Deborah Cox or Shabba Ranks or Rebel Princess doing a fetching reggae version of "Just Be Good To Me,""

I haven't listened to the mix-tape, but perhaps this would be the Beats International version?

If she used the Smith & Mighty Remix of the same I would instantly agree to carry her children.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

it's beats international, but i don't think it's a remix, just the single edit. the odb track is "pop shots." the french tune is vanessa paradis, "joe le taxi" (great song title, damn) which i think means i need to hear more vanessa paradis.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

weirdly i received a mailout from EMI a few weeks back which mentioned Lily (she's on Regal imprint) - saying 'someone you are going to hear a lot more of in the next few months' - to which i glossed over and moved on.

now i find myself downloading the mixtape and wishing i had responded to the email to get a chance on the ultra limited 7".

pah.

mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 07:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't. I find the mixtape link not working, that's what I do.

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

also - anyone see the Mark Ronson link in her myspace - this style of mixtape has markings of him all over it .. is he involved ?

xpost - mark - weird - i just grabbed it without any problems a few minutes ago ..

mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link

so... is Ronson her Diplo then?

StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link

ah ha - tis confirmed in her blog @ myspace ..
"so , I've been working with mark ronson on the album for the last week "
things become more clear ..
have to admit, i am loving this.

mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Without looking, I don't think Ronson's involved in the mixtape. I think they discovered each other fairly recently; he's only just now become one of her Myspace friends, though she did fly to NY so that she could DJ a club night with him (I think she was going to be in the U.S. anyway, he wasn't the only reason for the flight). I like it when people I've heard of show up as people's Myspace friends. Skye Sweetnam got a fellow named "Angry Samoan" early on, and recently got M.I.A.

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Beats International would seem right for "Just Be Good to Me" (in fact, I might once have owned that track; I remember a dub version called "Just Be Dub to Me"). Vanessa Paradis once made an LP that I consider a candidate for "Worst Album Ever Made" (it had a Velvets cover - "I'm Waiting for My Man," iirc - which was one of the less moribund tracks), but I've heard good tracks by her since then.

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

She's the Jonah Goldberg of pop.

The Mercury Krueger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I've not heard of Jonah Goldberg; he would be the Lily Allen of what?

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

ah so she's this year's MIA! I am interested in hearing her again.

The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

She needs to dress a lot more poorly to catch up to MIA.

The Mercury Krueger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

she was a guest on mark ronson's radio show on east village radio a couple of weeks ago. doesn't appear to be available as on demand download/listen anymore though. playlist here.

i think she's great...

(jg) ((jg)), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Tim: I would instantly agree to carry her children.

more than a few of us are going to feel like we've found a soulmate. dawning realisation over the past week: she is THAT good

Janet Kay, Ragga Twins, Ian Dury, Lily Allen...

Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

like a linoleum floor

kinder, Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

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

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link

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

/url badman

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link

lol

dyl, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link

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

I know. They aren't.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 July 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link

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

Jeff W, Thursday, 24 July 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link

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

"started from the bottom"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link

three years pass...

wow no shame is impeccable

brackEt, Saturday, 9 June 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link

its exactly alright still by a 33 yrs old mom

brackEt, Saturday, 9 June 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link

Sounds like rough draft of a Xgau review

i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link

“this summer’s biggest racist”???

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 10 June 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link

Thread title was altered when the Sheezus videos came out.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 10 June 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link

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

monotony, Sunday, 10 June 2018 07:08 (five years ago) link

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

Dan Worsley, Sunday, 10 June 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link

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

human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 10 June 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link

track one = best thing she's ever done.

piscesx, Sunday, 10 June 2018 11:31 (five years ago) link

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

dyl, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link

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

Mark G, Sunday, 10 June 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link

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

we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 10 June 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link

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

Jeff W, Sunday, 10 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link

Thread title always makes me chuckle.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 10 June 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link

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

devvvine, Sunday, 10 June 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link

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

i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link

Most Improved Racist 2018

U. K. Le Garage (wins), Sunday, 10 June 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link

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.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link

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

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link

STOP CHANGING THREAD TITLES.

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link

STOP CHANGING THREAD TITLES.
― Mr. Snrub

co-sign.

mark e, Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link

Counterpoint: change all the thread titles every day

GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Sunday, 10 June 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link

some of the tunes here are really nice

i do find it EXTREMELY ODD that for a hot moment lily allen was felt to be somehow vital and on the pulse of things

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link

Oh come on in 2006-07 she was bang in the middle of the British zeitgeist (read - was regularly in the Hawley Arms).

Matt DC, Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link

lol i know i'm not questioning it! i was there! it felt right! it also now seems EXTREMELY ODD!

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link

Her new album is shockingly great. Family Man, Come On, Three and Everything To Feel Something are all devastating.

kitchen person, Saturday, 16 June 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

the list is huge

brimstead, Friday, 18 February 2022 05:15 (two years ago) link

What list?

Out of the loop.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 18 February 2022 07:53 (two years ago) link

She’s always seemed super obnoxious in every interview I’ve seen of her.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 18 February 2022 07:55 (two years ago) link

Wait, what’s the context on this thread title?

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 18 February 2022 08:07 (two years ago) link

it was changed over the years when she said something racist I guess. Originally "biggest hit" iirc

StanM, Friday, 18 February 2022 08:09 (two years ago) link

Cruel to revive this in February imo.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 18 February 2022 10:35 (two years ago) link

which list? why February? wth is going on? lol

StanM, Friday, 18 February 2022 10:58 (two years ago) link

Hmm, it took years for the Morrissey thread to get renamed, whereas this one was as swiftasyerlike.

Mark G, Friday, 18 February 2022 11:02 (two years ago) link


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