Lily Allen - This summers biggest racist?

She is, I think, unstoppable.

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the lily allen effect = cuteness >>> my critical faculties

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....

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

(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, 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.)

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.

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.

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

i think she's great...

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...

"Just Be Good To Me" by Karmah
Release: 10 July (tbc)
We've been wanting to feature this all year and were delighted to hear that dance music's man of the moment Matt Jagger will release it in the UK on the Europa label. The elements are the Police Every Breath You Take guitarline, a rap that is just the right side of cheesy, and the Beats International chorus. Does it work? We think so - and it's an engrossing listen finding out. It's an Italian production from 1997 that did very little back then but its time has come. We heard about it when it start to hog the upper reaches of Shazam's German chart. It went on to spend three weeks at #5 on the German singles chart and it should be a pan- European smash.

My mum in Feb 1988 when Vanessa Paradis was on Top of the Pops for "Joe le Taxi" (No.3 in the UK): "I bet it's just paedophiles buying this record."

("Dub Be God To Me" was No.1 in the UK in Feb 1990.)

Bloke who caused a lot of fuss = M-Beat featuring General Levy "Incredible"

haha, tell it to france gall.

("Dub Be God To Me" was No.1 in the UK in Feb 1990.)

yeah that came out during one of my u.k. sojourns. late '89 was a good time for the pop charts there.

Her phrasing generally is spot on isn't it? She seems to know how to lift the lyrics into sounding really natural & spontaneous, comfortable even. Lily swings, which is actually pretty refreshing compared with a lot of ILM canon blitzkreig pop which tries like buggery to impress you into sensual submission yet ends up simply uptight for all the effort.

so... is the NME going to jump on the Lily bandwagon?

-- You'll Never Put a Better Bit of Butter On Your Knife (dadaismu...), May 2nd, 2006.

this is the bottom line, people.

I like this but I'm still kinda sceptical about the mega-hype brewing for her... does she have any ballads incidentally? I'm not sure how much, if anything, of an emotional connection I'm getting from her music so far.

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.

STOP CHANGING THREAD TITLES.
― Mr. Snrub

co-sign.

Counterpoint: change all the thread titles every day

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

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

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

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

the list is huge

What list?

Out of the loop.

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

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

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

Cruel to revive this in February imo.

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

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