Not Surprisingly, Lily Allen Has Some Very Strong Opinions About The ITunes Store

Oh, Lily Allen! As if you didn’t have enough music nerds swooning over your MySpace-posting, NME-bashing ways, now you’ve gone and slammed the ITunes store. From this week’s Sound Opinions interview:

…iTunes [is] kind of bullying people into corners by making sure they have extra, you know, extra songs so they can put them on the front page. And they won’t [advertise] your album unless you kind of give them extra material and so on. And we’ve kind of been backed into a corner. We want to do this remix, but the remix isn’t ready, but they need it delivered by today and blah blah blah. So I said, ‘Okay, fine, give iTunes the rubbish remix, and then what I’ll do I’ll get the people remixing it to do a good remix and then we’ll give it away for free on MySpace.”

As far as behind-the-scenes dealmaking goes, this isn’t exactly a revelation; the iTunes’ opening page is prime real-estate, and surely it doesn’t come cheap. But this is the first time we’ve heard an artist openly complain about any alleged “bullying,” and we can’t help but picture Steve Jobs assembling a team of hired goons to take Allen down, only to watch in frustration as each highly paid assassin is won over by the cheery horn line on “Smile.”

THIS WEEK’S GUEST: LILY ALLEN [Sound Opinions]