Lily Allen Is Asking The Girl In The Mirror To Change Her Ways

noah | July 13, 2009 1:30 pm

The video for Lily Allen’s musing on whether women of her generation have been stamped with an expiration date, “22,” chronicles those moments that members of the fairer sex spend in the bathroom during late nights at clubs—scrutinizing themselves in the mirror, intoxicated on both the offerings served up by the establishments’ bartenders and the peacocking they’ll have to go through once they escape through the doors marked WOMEN. Clip after the jump.

I spun Allen’s “Everyone’s At It”—also from It’s Not Me It’s You—a couple of times the other night, and what struck me about both that and the above song were how resolutely bleak they both are, somewhat uptempo music aside, and how the characterization of her as the 20something generation’s Jarvis Cocker might be more apt than not. Of course, if her next album is a collection of completely unjaded Ibiza anthems I’ll revoke that assessment. Lily Allen – 22 [YouTube]
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