Lily Allen - This summers biggest racist?

That's the first thing I always look for in any form of music - good lyrics

i never want to hear any of you so-called 'pop' 'kids' mention her name to me again.

so's we don't get confused - "Go DJ" is by JAMMIN' (aka DJ Zinc) (NOT the later grime dude Jammer, whose early productions were routinely FABO!)
agreed re Zinc, most of that whole run of breakstep is dud
one tune at a time ain't bad though, whole night of em's excruciating

love Lily's mix!

"LDN" sounded pretty good on first listen, but I think that "Smile" song on the mixtape is even better, a lovely summer jam. Old bluebeat tune plus cheeky cockernee singing works for me.

ROFFLE

Agree that 9 isn't Montana Slim as I'd originally thought, but, um, which one is that '31 seconds' tune? I'm still not getting a name for 7 some dancehall guy, 8 another dancehall guy, and 17 some funky dubby thing (one of which may be 31 seconds for all I know).

Only heard two or three Nellie McKay songs but once upon a time read scads of Forced Exposures, and I'm not perceiving Lily having much connection to either Nellie or FE. I suppose she's closer to them than to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, but still not particularly close. I mean, I doubt she's fucked a pig in her life.

the jungle track at the end is origin unknown's "valley of the shadows (31 seconds)", omni trio VIP remix, right?
-- DEEDS NOT WORDS (vfoz...) (webmail), May 4th, 2006 8:29 PM. (vahid) (later)

uh, hello?

(also, i actually *like* this stuff! i listened to 'ldn' about six times yesterday.)

does this mean there's mnore than one mix? her site seems to be down...

I knew exactly what you meant!

Playlist for 05.05.06
(...)
Lily Allen Smile
Mark Ronson Oh My God feat. Lily Allen
(...)

oooh, and he's into our buddy Mickey Avalon too, apparently.

I had a cynical wish that this was going to be Desireless "Voyage Voyage"....

I want to like LDN - I really like her voice, that kind of crackly-forties-radio winsome tone, but I can't stand the lyrics and the tune's pretty flimsy. I got bored of the mixtape pretty quick as well, her songs didn't stand up that well with what surrounded them, sadness.

And many people who like M.I.A. are people who like pop "in the wrong way".

had a cynical wish that this was going to be Desireless "Voyage Voyage"...

Which I've never heard, believe it or not, though I've got two different versions in Spanish ("Vuela Vuela"). What's cynical about wanting to hear it?

NOT FAKE HIPSTER DANCEHALL

NOT TWEE GRIME

NOT REAL GRIME

STOP WASTING TIME FANTASIZING HOW WACK SHIT LIKE THIS WILL DO ON OUR POP CHARTS

THIS CHICK WILL BE LUCKY TO MOVE A 1000 UNITS IN HER OWN COUNTRY

NOW

DONT GET ME WRONG

I FUCK WITH UNDERGROUND SHIT THAT BRICKS TOO

BUT I DO NOT SPEND ALL DAY DRESSING UP MY RAS KASS PAPER DOLLS & WRITING GAY FAN FICTION ABOUT KILLAH PRIEST HOLDING HANDS WITH YOUNG JEEZY ON 106 & PARK

SO

WHY DO THAT WITH SOME TWEE GARBAGE THAT WILL SELL 1/1000th AS MANY COPIES BUT GET 100000x AS MUCH PRESS????????

THAT IS ALL

I agree totally.

Lily Allen's sales: Higher than Mia's, lower than Estelle's.

She's alright, pleasant, cheery, a bit individual & doesn't blend into the background (production, personality or otherwise) like a majority of pop at the moment. I think she's going to be oversold relative to how good she actually is (see also: Arctic Monkeys) as a result of the otherwise drab state of English chart pop (that isn't some kind of house-dance) in general.

I dunno, I might just delete those mp3's and wait for the album. I think all of these songs are going to sound much better on that somehow. I think my favourite of hers might be "everything's just fine" actually. The lo-fi-ness already suits the 60's kitsch-en sink backing to a tee there.