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Lily Allen Shows Off Newish Song, EMI Shows Off Newish YouTube Strategy

Yesterday, charming blogabout Lily Allen debuted "The Fear," the lead single off her forthcoming album It's Not Me, It's You. The song is a brighter version of a track she previewed on MySpace back in April, and it burbles along nicely, with shiny synths underscoring Lily's simple singalong melodies. But I'm also interested in how Parlophone, her label in the UK, decided to treat the pre-video period on YouTube, because it actually represents something of a smart move. More »

1:00 PM on Tue Dec 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
398 views, 11 comments

Latest by UKidol: It sounds brilliant on the radio. Was debuted yesterday here in the UK. more »

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Lily Allen Demands Honesty

ARTIST: Lily Allen
TITLE: "Everyone's At It"
WEB DEBUT: Oct. 23, 2008 More »

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Lily Allen: Worst Vlogger Ever?

Two rules I like to follow while blogging: Don't talk with your mouth full (admittedly, being in the text-only world makes following that one a bit easier), and try to refrain from discussing any digestive-system woes you might be experiencing. Lily Allen, however, has no such ideals holding her back—so unfettered is she that she actually does both at the same time in the first installment of her video blog, which is made with a camera so new, the calendar is stuck on Jan. 1, 2007. Yes, in this installment, she lets us know that she's both getting a colonic and going to the dentist tomorrow, which is why I guess she chose to show off her mastication technique for the masses. God, what did we do before technology made celebrities' every waking moments able to be completely open? We had lives and stuff, right? [YouTube]

1:00 PM on Thu Sep 18 2008
By Maura Johnston
213 views, 2 comments

Latest by liamgreening: She could still vlog you under the table!! more »

Lily Allen's second album, Stuck On The Naughty Step, has a release date of Feb. 9, 2009 penciled into EMI's calendar. Also right now she's working on a video, although she says it's "for viral release," which like isn't the whole point of a "viral" video for it to be sort of under-the-radar and able to trick users into thinking that they accidentally popularized it? Oh, language. How I weep for your lost meanings. Anyway, here's my guess as to its concept: It's a "Will It Blend?" segment featuring photos of Katy Perry. [Lily Allen's MySpace Blog]

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So Much For Her Assertion That There Were No Hard Feelings

In the wake of their on-stage spat at the British GQ Awards last week, Elton John has announced that rumors of any future collaborations with his sparring partner Lily Allen should be put to bed: "I was thinking about asking her to tour with me and maybe even do a duet... Obviously that won't be happening now," he told the Daily Star. No word from Lily's blog about how she feels about this reversal of fortune, perhaps because she's too busy worrying about the end of the world. [Now Magazine]

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on the blogs

Lily Allen Is Mad That No One Got The Joke

The pint-sized singer responds to the flap over her Wednesday-night tiff with Elton John on her blog, saying that it was all just a big joke and even though she may have been drunk, it wasn't like Sir Elton was mad or anything: "I'm not defending my drunkeness because i don't need to, i'm 23 it was an awards ceremony i drank the free champagne, how awful of me. Trying to create a feud on the other hand, and trying to make me out as being some rude little girl with a drink problem is just unfair, Elton and I exchanged jokes and there were no hard feelings at all, infact neither of us gave it a second thought. It's sad that an evening enjoyed by all had to ruined by some bitter journos again...." More »

11:00 AM on Fri Sep 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
471 views, 4 comments

Latest by cheesebubble: That was beautifully put, thakoolshooshinesoulchildrmx. It's sad that an evening enjoyed by all had to ruined by an obnoxiously drunk little girl. This is how she chooses to carry on at an awards ceremony for charity? For god sakes, bloody more »

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Elton John And Lily Allen Have Bitchiest Awards-Show Snipefest Since Milton Berle And RuPaul

Elton John's assertion that he could snort British burbler Lily Allen under the table, and his half-bored disgust at her unwillingness to stop sucking from the free-champagne teat and plastered protests over his advanced age, make me pretty sure that the argument they had at British GQ's Men Of The Year Awards isn't some sort of viral marketing plan for their forthcoming collaboration, "Wednesday Nights Are Pretty OK For Fighting As Well '09." Then again, I'm talking about both of them thanks to this little spat, so who knows? [via Gawker]

9:00 AM on Thu Sep 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
875 views, 7 comments

Latest by daveknapik: "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" is a big bloated bucket of wank like everything else he ever produced in his entire career. There's a place in hell reserved for Elton and his crimes against music where he'll be forced more »

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Lily Allen Gives Her Fans A Primer On The Business Of Music

Two months ago, Lily Allen was in Los Angeles making her new record, and there were rumors of discord between the spunky British singer and her label, the EMI-owned Capitol Records—word on the street was that the troubled label, clearly operating under the "one female singer at a time, guys" rule, was throwing all its weight behind the abhorrent Katy Perry and kicking Allen to the curb, or at least the "turnaround" segment of EMI's roster. At the time, Allen denied the allegations, saying that there was more than enough room for both of them. But she mentioned the current status of her album in a blog post over the weekend, and things don't look all that good: More »

8:53 AM on Mon Aug 18 2008
By Maura Johnston
854 views, 5 comments

Latest by Tauwan: Three things: (1) That is one of the sexiest photos of Lily Allen I have ever seen, (2) I played Mark Ronson's Version yesterday, and was reminded of how sweet and welcoming this girl's coo is, even when she's playing it mean, more »

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Lily Allen Breaks Out The Full Box Of "Colorful Language" Crayons

The lyrics to Lily Allen's "Fuck You Very Much"—which verbally flip off someone who wants to be like his father while also being racist, homophobic, generally closed-minded, and also an idiot—make me wonder if this track isn't her attempt at writing a "statement" song that could easily be segued out of Jarvis Cocker's just-as-salty anti-authority polemic "Running The World." "Fuck You" is irresistibly catchy, and I look forward to it shooting to No. 1 on the ringtone charts as thousands of jilted lovers snag its chorus for purposes of signaling a call from their exes. [YouTube]

1:00 PM on Tue Aug 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
419 views, 4 comments

Latest by RaptorAvatar: I'm amazed I made it through that. Around 2:19, all that ken burns zooming helped me realize that she really reminds me of a lizard... a lizard whose voice will be bouncing around my skull for days. more »

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Lily Allen Is Living The Nightmare

Lily Allen takes to her blog and goes the "Kanye West clarity post" route in response to allegations that some wardrobe malfunctions she experienced yesterday were actually a manufactured stunt, because if there's one thing that will make your music more respected by the world, it's inadvertently flashing some nipple while you're trying to fight your way through a crowd of SLR-wielding paps: "hello , i wore a loose fitting t shirt yesterday . I was very hot in London yesterday , and it's no secret I don't like wearing bras , besides i don't need to, measuring in at 32A it hardly seems necessary .My boob fell out twice and people on the blogs are saying it was a publicity stunt ." More »

9:30 AM on Fri Aug 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
833 views, 5 comments

Latest by ITMS: Man, this post just proves how deep and relevant Britney's "Piece of Me" was. Celebrities are certainly not just like us because they have 10-20 middle-aged men taking photos of them doing things that are just like us. more »

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Lily Allen Learning That Most Labels Only Have Time For One Spunky Chick Singer At A Time

Lily Allen, who's in LA recording her new album right now, is apparently ticked off that Capitol Records is putting all of its weight behind Girl Gone Wild of the moment Katy Perry, including—oh, the humanity!—a big picture of Allen being taken down and one of Perry being put up in the halls of her label, Capitol Records. Picture replacements, having to downgrade her LA hotel room out of concern for expenses... it all sounds lifted from the end of Soapdish, except I would definitely consider Perry more of the blowhardy Montana Moorehead type. (Look for her at a dinner theater near you soon!) [Page Six / Lily Allen's MySpace Blog / Photo: WENN]

2:15 PM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
512 views, 6 comments

Latest by metalkate: omg lily allen sucks. whats up with people liking her? yeah, yeah, not a very good zinger, but she's not worth it. she sucks. what's up with people? i also must confess to loving soapdish and totally getting that reference. more »

leak of the day

Lily Allen Hops Off Her Bike And Takes Off In A Too-Sleek Sportscar

ARTIST: Lily Allen
TITLE: "I Don't Know" / "I Could Say"
WEB DEBUT: April 17, 2008

The ratings for Lily Allen's grindingly awkward chatfest on the BBC, Lily Allen And Friends, keep sinking and sinking; this week's numbers dipped about 50% from the week prior, when Lily had Mark Ronson as a guest. Apparently the Beeb is trying to wave away the naysayers by telling people that it's actually doing great on the Internet, which is like explaining away a third-grader's lousy marks with the retort "Well, at least she's reading at a preschooler's level!" [Guardian via No Rock And Roll Fun]

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great moments in awkwardness

"Lily Allen And Friends" Still Not Forming Many Bonds With Viewers

In case you were wondering just how much of a disaster Lily Allen's ratings nightmare of a TV chat show is, someone's gone and put the most recent episode on YouTube. Part one is above; Lily is in totally wooden mode when she's forced to read the teleprompter, which only serves to make her flirting with Martin Freeman even more awkward. Plus: there's footage animals doing it with Perez Hilton-style scrawl over them, Chris Crocker takes the "Internet celebrity" role that Tay Zonday had in episode one, and there's found YouTubage of some woman who can "make her butt clap." Poor Martin, looking absolutely mortified while trying to explain to Lily the Web 1.0 definition of "friend." I want to give him a cookie. [YouTube via The Daily Swarm]

2:00 PM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By Maura Johnston
553 views, 4 comments

Latest by meli: @christopher tracy & @KurticusMaximus: Agreed. I think it's adorable and kind of a neat premise. Plus, I absolutely adore Lily Allen. more »

Proving once again that TV about the Internet is probably not the best programming direction for executives interested in keeping their jobs, Lily Allen's MySpace-themed chat show—which featured Cuba Gooding Jr., a segment based around YouTube-sourced clips animals having sex, and Tay Zonday covering Lily's song "Smile"—tanked in the ratings Tuesday night. Lily Allen And Friends "reduced BBC Three's average audience for the 10:30pm slot by some 200,000 viewers," although the BBC is keeping its chin up, saying that it's really going to find its big numbers on the Web. Which, of course, makes me wonder why ait just didn't go direct-to-Internet in the first place, if only because of the medium's generally lowered bars for "high viewership." [Times Online]

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Lily Allen is pregnant with Chemical Brothers member Ed Simons' kid. I don't know about you, but the thought of Lily Allen entering the world of "mommyblogging" is enough to make me want to never open my RSS reader again. [Times Online / Photo: Getty]

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In what can only be seen as an attempt to make the entire Internet stop focusing on Amy Winehouse's travails and start bickering over her again, Lily Allen has taken it upon herself to record a cover of ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky." For a cell phone commercial. A French cell phone commercial. To the comment section, everybody! [New Music Now]

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Lily Allen, Take Two: Kate Nash Slips Into An Abandoned Pair Of Sneakers

Now that Lily Allen has lost about 20 pounds and traded in the sneakers (no, I will not call them trainers) for heels, who will be cute ("real-life cute"), spunky, catchy, relatable, over-hyped, and British for us? Who will weigh at least 120 pounds, wear quirky garments, and sing to us about boy trouble over laboriously-produced and highly infectious pop hooks? Ladies and gentlemen: Kate Nash. More »

10:30 AM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Kate Richardson
1,826 views, 10 comments

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