Lily Allen Knows What Your Problem Is
Our look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a look at reactions to It’s Not Me, It’s You, the second album from admitted vanity Googler Lily Allen:
• “It’s Not Me is full of disagreeable characters, but ickiest of all isn’t the crackhead socialite or the loutish boyfriend or even George W. Bush. It’s not them, Lily-it’s you. ” [Christian Hoard, RS]
• “In the end, it’s a tale of two Lilys: the naughty postadolescent in the rearview mirror, and the fully realized female coming around the bend. ” [Leah Greenblatt, EW]
• “Who could resist a tune about God (‘Him’) in which ‘suicidal’ rhymes with ‘Creedence Clearwater Revival’?” [Mikael Wood, Billboard]
• “Disregard the flimflam—’Fuck You’ (about George W Bush), ‘Him’ (about God), and ‘He Wasn’t There’ (which lets her reprobate father off the hook)—and It’s Not Me … stands up, head high and shoulders thrown confidently back. Charm, after all, is often just another female strategy born of weakness and Allen has no need of it any more.” [Kitty Empire, Guardian]
