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.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:04 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
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.
― all is fair in love and womp (monotony), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 04:40 (ten years ago) link
xpost I don't think it's actually on the album..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 08:02 (ten years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 08:14 (ten years ago) link
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...
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 09:11 (ten years ago) link
Glad we have lily allen to take a stand against the vanity. Now who will do something about the intemperance
― PhetamineGrrrn (wins), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 09:58 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kPQiAJv4fo
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 April 2014 11:49 (nine years ago) link
that was already posted: GTFO rolling worst music of 2014
― lex pretend, Thursday, 24 April 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
I'm sorry her ex-boyfriends in the media won't countenance other women criticising her
Who they?
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 24 April 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
that video looks cool and i don't hate the beat or her voice. lyrics are so dumb tho, like really really lazy
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
like a linoleum floor
― kinder, Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
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
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
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
― 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
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