Idolator

Sounds like a repeat of the last Great Limey Hope from four years ago, the Streets - awesome debut album, mediocre live debut. Like Skinner, she'll probably get better live. And it won't diminish the records, which in Skinner's/Streets' case have remained great and in Allen's case is stellar.

And hey, Madonna was a flaccid live performer back in her first year, too.

Agreed. I'm pretty sure Lily Allen is not the next Arcade Fire. In fact, all this time I've been saying that Arcade Fire was the future Lily Allen.

Dennisobell, did you know that that she's been romantically linked with Skinner? Apparently she'll follow the same fate.
Wiggettes still have a better shot at U.S. markets than the brit wiggers.

Dayum! No, roosterocker, I didn't - thanx for the heads-up! Man, that explains a shitload.

Except then...who's the jilted ex-BF in "Smile," I wonder?

Might as well copy all the text in this post, insert a blank wherever it says "Lily Allen," and keep it handy, as I imagine you'll have to do about 900 almost-identical posts in future, just with a different artist/band name inserted.

I'm still waiting for somebody to explain the appeal of this girl's music to me.

Subinev says:
I'm still waiting for somebody to explain the appeal of this girl's music to me.

Hrm. Teen-pop with a brain and a can of mace?
Limey chav groove-rock with a serious dub jones?
The British Pink, cross-pollinated with M.I.A.?

I dunno, I just like it. But I'm a shameless anglophile.

It's very summery and fun. I don't understand why Capitol is releasing it in February--it just seems like awful timing all around.

I'm also still waiting for someone to explain the appeal. It sounds like pop-schlock to me. Teen-pop with a brain and a can of mace? Just like Avril Lavigne, right? Yeah, there's the appeal.....

Lesee, let's take a single that could be a mid-Summer smash (and is overseas) and bury it within an album that's coming out in the middle of Winter. And the industry wonders why it haas problems?

I know Chicago promoter JAM is super-psyched to prove their cool-kid cred when this show hits us next week so folks stop calling them "grandpa."

And I know I am looking forward to the show regardless of any of this hoo-ha.

if this sounds like teen pop to you, i have to ask what teen pop records you're buying. is there a mighty sparrow sample on the high school musical soundtrack that i missed? i love the record; it pulls from a bunch of different styles and shuffles and re-organizes them. it sounds like growing up in london in the late 70s, when punk rock was banging up agains pop and reggae and calypso and highlife.

tangentially: why is it so important to people that every new band change their life? are their lives that mundane? it seems like nearly every discussion of a new artist is couched in their ability to have some kind of gigantic emotional resonance. who gives a fuck? it's pop music, people.

Love Allen; have been listening since an Irish friend (so much cooler than the British, no) turned me on to her in the spring. Shame for you Americans that you have to wait until February for the album; makes me wonder why the labels are so determined to just wait until the buzz completely dissipates before releasing the album, especially as it came out in Canada in September. I suppose it's just more evidence that they clearly haven't a clue what they're doing, as usual.

Can't we just ignore her and maybe she'll go away.

brit wiggers

Cahv, Kev, spide. If you're gonna be a hipster, you gotta slang the yang.

Shit: chav

I like Lily Allen. I liked her when she did drum and bass with Future Cut.

I'm old school!

is it just me or was that performance lip-synched?

I totally thought so too, ZERO!!!

atonal chav music. so, so, so awful. you said it, cerulgalactus.