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Post by Active Aggressive on Jul 1, 2008 15:02:03 GMT -5
I don't know what the f that title means but it's cool.
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Post by jord on Jul 1, 2008 16:29:38 GMT -5
^^Naughty step is a place where bad children are sent to and the title is suggesting she is perminently stuck there.
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Post by gimmethatFUNK on Jul 1, 2008 18:09:48 GMT -5
lmao. I love the album title
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Post by SHOOTER on Jul 2, 2008 0:30:28 GMT -5
Perfect title for her.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jul 3, 2008 10:56:28 GMT -5
Then, that's appropriate for her AND awesome. Good job, Lily. Now, bring that fiyah!
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Post by reception on Jul 3, 2008 14:46:40 GMT -5
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Post by MyLastView on Jul 3, 2008 15:10:01 GMT -5
The title is amazing.
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Post by reception on Jul 8, 2008 14:55:06 GMT -5
Lily Allen retires her pink locks and is back to brunette Tuesday as she catches up on the phone while out and about in London.
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Post by izrahell711 on Jul 9, 2008 3:19:23 GMT -5
love the album title
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Post by busyboy on Jul 16, 2008 8:02:20 GMT -5
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Post by K. on Jul 16, 2008 11:30:39 GMT -5
Is it "Who'd of Known?" I like it.
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Post by busyboy on Aug 19, 2008 13:23:36 GMT -5
Lily Allen Confused Over New Album DelayAndre Paine, London U.K. pop star Lily Allen has expressed confusion over the release of her sophomore album amid the current changes at EMI. The follow-up to her 2006 album "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone) is due at some point in the fourth quarter or early next year. The as-yet-untitled record will be issued on Capitol in the U.S. "It has been finished for a while now, I don't really know what's going on with it," said Allen in a posting on MySpace. "The record industry is a very political place at the moment and I am on EMI Records. Lots of people have been fired or have taken redundancy recently as the company was taken over by a private equity firm called Terra Firma." Billboard has heard 10 tracks from the record, again produced by Greg Kurstin, and Allen sounds as lyrically confident as ever. Songs such as "Everyone's At It" and "I Don't Know" showcase a more electronic sound, with the latter song dissecting her tabloid infamy. New demos have also been posted on MySpace, each racking up between 250,000 and one million plays. Allen adds, "Many of these people were people assigned to my projects and now I don't quite know what's going on. I'm sure everyone will find their feet soon enough and I'll be able to put the album out soon." EMI did not comment on Allen's remarks. www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003840351
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Post by hidizzyguy on Aug 19, 2008 14:14:49 GMT -5
Hurry up Lily! Why do I feel she's always being caught up in industry politics.
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Post by reception on Sept 3, 2008 17:19:57 GMT -5
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Post by lelefan on Sept 3, 2008 21:38:05 GMT -5
Sir Elton John, Lily Allen in war of words at GQ Awards VINTAGE rocker Elton John embarked on a war of words with pop star Lily Allen as the pair hosted this year's GQ Men Of The Year Awards in London overnight. The Daily Mail reports Allen drank champagne throughout the ceremony and grew more intoxicated while on stage. Elton John reportedly "finally lost it with the singer after she allegedly began slurring her words and ad-libbing the scripted dialogue". When the 23-year-old told the audience, "And now for the most important part of the night ...", John quipped, "What? Are you going to have another drink?" Smile singer Lily told Elton to “f**k off” when he made the comment about her heavy drinking habits. She said: “'F**k off Elton. I am 40 years younger than you and have my whole life ahead of me!” Elton replied: “I could still snort you under the table.” Allen's drinking blunders could have got her into trouble once again after she let slip that her brother is engaged to girlfriend Jaime Winstone, ITN reports. Allen introduced Winstone to the stage by saying: "Please welcome my very soon-to-be sister-in-law Jamie Winstone." When she came on, Allen asked her: "Where's the Elizabeth Duke diamond, man?" The Kidulthood actress said in response: "Shut up, no one's supposed to know." Co-host Elton John looked shocked and quizzed Allen off camera: "Is Alfie marrying her?", to which she murmured, "Yeah." Also off camera Allen revealed she turned down the chance to appear on Strictly Come Dancing because it was "career suicide". Led Zeppelin won the Outstanding Achievement prize. The accolade was handed to Jimmy Page and Robert Plant by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl at the glamorous event at London’s Royal Opera House. The event also saw super-producer Mark Ronson win the Alfred Dunhill Maverick Award, while Primal Scream scooped Band Of The Year. Other winners included celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay who took home the BlackBerry Entrepreneur Of The Year accolade, while The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers was named Most Stylish Man Of The Year. Gavin and Stacey star James Corden - who took his mother to the ceremony - won the award for Breakthrough Talent. The ceremony was also attended by RocknRolla star Thandie Newton, actress-and-model Elizabeth Hurly and legendary singer Tony Bennett, who collected the Inspiration award. The GQ Men of the Year Award 2008 winners in full: Outstanding Achievement - Led Zeppelin Inspiration - Tony Bennett Lifetime Achievement Award - David Bailey Alfred Dunhill Maverick Award - Mark Ronson Politician Of The Year - Boris Johnson International Man Of The Year - Josh Brolin BlackBerry Entrepreneur Of The Year - Gordon Ramsay Band Of The Year - Primal Scream Radio Personality Of The Year - Chris Evans Chef Of The Year - Mark Hix Most Stylish Man Of The Year - Brandon Flowers Breakthrough Talent - James Corden Woman Of The Year - Sam Taylor Wood TV Personality Of The Year - James Nesbitt Fashion Designer - Christopher Bailey Author Of The Year - Joesph O'Neill Actor Of The Year - Steve Coogan Comedians Of The Year - The Mighty Boosh Visionary - Sir Peter Blake Sportsman Of The Year - Joe Calzaghe Editor's Special Award - Rio Ferdinand Meanwhile, Allen has revealed her friend was kidnapped and kept in a car boot for six days. The singer was left “terrified” by the ordeal and thanked London’s Metropolitan Police for foiling the plot as she co-hosted the GQ Men of the Year awards last night. Lily said: “My friend Charlie was kidnapped a few weeks ago and was kept in a car boot for six days without any food or anything. It was really scary. Thank you to the Met for getting my friend back, we were all terrified. From what I hear, the police did a fantastic job.” Lily’s friend, only identified as Charlie, and another man - both in their 20s - were working in a West London sports store when armed men allegedly walked in and forced them into a car on August 2. The kidnappers are said to have demanded a $150,000 ransom from the two men’s families and held them at a property in Thamesmead, South East London. Lily added: “He was in a car boot being driven around London before he was found. It was all over money.” Police have arrested six men in connection with the kidnap plot. Four are charged with conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to blackmail and false imprisonment. One man has been charged with two offences of kidnap and one offence of robbery. The sixth man has been released on bail pending further inquiries. www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24291826-7484,00.html
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Post by jazzyskye10² on Sept 3, 2008 22:10:13 GMT -5
In Los Angeles, if you want to feel like you're not in Los Angeles, stay at the Chateau Marmont. It's the kind of place, hidden as it is off an elbow of the Sunset Strip, where you imagine homesick Europeans holed up between screen tests, drawn to its provincial layout and shadowy bungalows. On this summer day, it's the Saturday Night Live cast members doing the holing up. Amy Poehler is sitting alone, and minutes later Bill Hader arrives -- you know, the guy who isn't Andy Samberg -- not to meet Poehler but to decamp to a back table. Meanwhile, a group of British entertainment biz dudes make an entrance dressed, as Brits in L.A. are wont to do, like 13-year-old boys from the Valley waiting for their moms to drive them to the beach. And then at 10:30 a.m. on the dot -- not a minute later, no sheepish apologies needed -- comes Ms. Lily Allen. If you'd been following the tabloids up until then, you might have thought it impossible for Allen to get out of bed this early, much less meet a journalist for an interview at the appointed time, all on her own. Weeks earlier she had to be carried out of the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in her hot pink Giles Deacon dress and even hotter pink hair. But as Allen sits down inconspicuously and orders tea, it's clear that she's in L.A. to work on her music, not her profile. Her hair is still pink, though fading into a mellow strawberry ice cream color (after the recent death of her "nan" last June, she dyed it dark). In her videos, Allen usually looks like the heir to Shirley Manson -- she has that kind of character-as-beauty attractiveness that you see in the expressive eyes and rounded features of veteran British actress Dame Maggie Smith. In person Allen is much prettier and younger looking. Without makeup, in a brown and white sundress and flip-flops, she's even a little tan, a nice complement to her eyes, which are the delicious light-brown color of ice cubes melting in a glass of cola. She explains that she has been going to bed by eleven, getting up at eight, and then going to the gym with her trainer. Nightlife has been limited to seeing The Happening ("awful") and Lil Wayne at the House of Blues ("amazing"). She's even thinking about remaking Wayne's "A Milli" as "Lilli" for the entrance music on her next tour. Kind of like how she remade 50 Cent's "Window Shopper" into "Nan You're a Window Shopper," one of many memorable tracks amid "Smile," "Alfie" and "LDN" on her 2007 debut Alright, Still. The album is a ska-soul-pop sing-a-long that made her the Gwen Stefani of the U.K. and earned her a gold record stateside. Allen was her own best promotions department for the record, posting her songs on MySpace and blogging fearlessly (and hilariously) to find an audience well before her record company was promoting her. She said what was on her mind, even if sometimes that meant commenting on other people's lives -- at one point she called for anyone who bought Paris Hilton's record to be killed. "I'm famous for mouthing off about other famous people. I was very naïve," she confesses. "I wasn't seeking attention. I was just communicating." Karma's a bitch, and it goes both ways: "I thought I was hot until I kept reading about my ‘unconventional' beauty." She has famously railed against the never-too-thin body image, and on this recent L.A. trip, Allen blogged about the virtues of local fast food phenom In-N-Out Burger, posting pictures of herself pigging out on a Double Double. She even has an In-N-Out screensaver on her laptop. But she embraces her contradictions enough to be more okay with what she eats than with how it settles on her hips. "I'm not killing it with my look right now," she says, and admits, "I'm not feeling a hundred percent comfortable with it." It's only because of Alright, Still's late-blooming success that Allen has the budget to come to L.A., although she has downgraded from the two-G-a-night bungalow where John Belushi died to a suite. "I couldn't afford it!" she laughs. "Plus, everything's recoupable." Meaning that in the end, she's paying for it herself. "I feel guilty bringing my producer Greg [Kurstin] to England [from L.A.], away from his wife all that time," she explains, lighting a Parliament. "The last trip wasn't very productive. I've never been good at working in London -- too many distractions. Too many people to go out and have lunch with." But you don't get carried out of the Glamour awards for having too much lunch. "Yeah, I don't remember a thing," she says of the incident, not so much as an excuse but just because, a) she still can't figure it out, and b) is it really that big a fucking deal? "I did drink that night," Allen admits. "I woke up in my bed at 8 a.m. and felt totally fine. So I Googled myself, and then I saw the pictures. It was awful. I can't believe I got into that state. It leads me to believe somebody put something in my drink or something. Because it's totally not in my repertoire to do something like that." Still, with the year she's had, who could really blame her if it was? She split with her longtime manager and started dating Chemical Brother Ed Simons, became pregnant and prepared to start a family at 23. Then suffered a miscarriage in January, was institutionalized and broke up with Simons. "When I realized I was pregnant and realized I wanted to have the baby, I made a huge decision," she says. And though you might expect (and maybe even wish) for that decision to include stopping the supply of tabloid fodder, she offers a more proactive reason as to why she made the decision she did: "To make my life more stable." She bought a flat in a family-friendly London neighborhood that she plans to pay off within two years, and while she won't exactly admit the need to clean up, she doesn't duck the subject either. "I'm not gonna say I'm never gonna do drugs again. I just know I'm not a good person on drugs." Fair enough. According to Allen, the biggest misconception people have about her is that she's out of control. "I'm actually a bit of a control freak," she says. As part of her therapy after the miscarriage, Allen had to sit in her room on her hands doing nothing. "It was the hardest thing for me -- my therapist says one of my coping mechanisms is to always be thinking of the way out. Like this hotel, I've memorized all the exits." Her candor is one of the things that has set Allen apart from other girls behaving badly -- unlike her American counterparts, Allen doesn't make excuses for herself or deny her actions. She has a knack for saying what's on her mind and doing what she wants in ways that elicit both sympathy and outrage. "I think I've been more cautious about journalists," she contends. And in turn, they're becoming more cautious about her. In an interview with Perez Hilton, the gossip queen cautioned: "It's always dangerous when you're known more for your behavior than your music." And went on to say that he's "disappointed" by what he's heard of her newer material. "Her life now is not what I'm interested in. I want you to think about what you're writing. Songs are supposed to be timeless... Amy [Winehouse] is a fuck-up, but she still sold two million records. If [Lily's] not successful, no one is to blame but herself." Not surprisingly, Allen's producer Greg Kurstin sees it from a different angle, although he doesn't entirely disagree. "She puts a lot of pressure on herself. I've seen her go through a lot of transitions. Lyrically, she's a lot more political. And she's drawing from more personal experiences." As such, one of those experiences is her own ambivalence toward her celebrity -- written about in the song, "I Don't Know," Allen's numb ode to fabulousness à la Iggy Pop's "Nightclubbing." "I just write what comes out of my head. It's not intentional," says Allen. "I just can't do anything else." Remember too that this is someone who has tattoos around her wrist of an Om, Star of David, Buddha, the Islamic crescent moon and star, a cross and Homer Simpson. "I'm not interested in writing twelve love songs," she contends. "I don't think I'm good at love songs. I'm not really good at being in love," she chuckles. "The other thing is to write about the world without being preachy, which is hard." So far she's doing a good job. The new album, tentatively titled Stuck on the Naughty Step, is more accomplished and varied than its predecessor. "He Wasn't There" is a letter to her dad that picks up where "Alfie" (about her brother) left off. Then there's "CCR," in which Allen suggests that God was in the world prior to 9/11 and that "his favorite band is Creedence Clearwater Revival." Kurstin laughs about the song: "I can't imagine anyone [else] in England using that as a reference. It's typical her -- unexpected." The humor's more coal-black, too: "Not Fair" is about a guy who is wack in the sack, even though she's "spent ages giving [him] head." And on "Everyone's At It," she tells it like it is -- or was: "When will we tire of putting shit up our noses?/ It's meant to be fun but it just doesn't feel right." If Naughty Step sounds like a 23-year-old trying to find her voice, that's because it is. Not to say Alright, Still was a fluke, but that this record is more of a risk. She co-wrote the songs sitting with Kurstin at his piano, which is way harder than writing lyrics for finished tracks, as she did before. And though she's had premature segues into TV show-hosting and putting her name on a fashion line in the past two years, she won't go back to any of it if music doesn't work out. "I wake up every day and think I'm actually pretty bad at it. I work hard at getting better. But if this record flops, I'll probably go back to school," she ponders. "I've always liked architecture." And with that, it's time for Allen to head back to the studio with Kurstin and the piano to get out whatever's on her mind -- God, Allah, Yahweh, Buddha, Krishna, and Homer willing. Link: www.papermag.com/?section=article&parid=2775&page=1
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Post by derek on Sept 4, 2008 1:55:13 GMT -5
wtf happened to Fuck U Very Much!? Tht would have been a killer 1st single!
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Post by busyboy on Sept 16, 2008 7:27:07 GMT -5
Lily Allen announces new album release dateSinger also reveals she'll unveil extra material soon Lily Allen has announced that her forthcoming second album, tentatively titled 'Stuck On The Naughty Step', will be released on February 9, 2009. The singer has also explained that she will precede the album by releasing a viral video, which she is set to film in the near future. "I am trying really hard to do this album with integrity," Allen wrote on her MySpace blog. "I want you all to know that it has been thought about by me, not just some thrown together last-minute industry bullshizz." Writing about the extra material she was working on, Allen continued: "I'm working on extra stuff in the studio at the moment, it seems making an album isn't enough these days. "I am at my happiest in the studio so it works well for me, I just don't want to put out sub-standard stuff." www.nme.com/news/lily-allen/39744
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Post by busyboy on Sept 16, 2008 10:39:08 GMT -5
Second Lily Allen Album Due In FebruaryJonathan Cohen, N.Y. U.K. pop upstart Lily Allen has penciled in a Feb. 9, 2009, release date for her as-yet-untitled sophomore album. Last month Allen wrote on her MySpace page that the album was finished but being held up by drama at EMI in the wake of its buyout by private equity firm Terra Firma. Billboard has heard 10 tracks from the record, again produced by Greg Kurstin, and Allen sounds as lyrically confident as ever. Songs such as "Everyone's At It" and "I Don't Know" showcase a more electronic sound, with the latter song dissecting the artist's tabloid infamy. On her MySpace blog, Allen promises "there will be bits and bobs flying around" prior to street date, including a viral video for an unnamed song. At present, she's in the studio "working on extra stuff" to augment the new album. "I am trying really hard to do this album with integrity and I want you all to know that it has been thought about by me, not just some thrown together last minute industry bullshizz," she says. The new album is the follow-up to 2007's "Alright Still," which has sold 514,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003850161
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Post by Coin-Operated [Boy] on Sept 17, 2008 5:54:28 GMT -5
The pink hair has to go.
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Post by vinyl on Sept 17, 2008 19:58:10 GMT -5
It's gone I think, the photoshoot just isn't THAT recent I suppose? I dunno. Last I heard, she was back to brown.
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Post by busyboy on Oct 21, 2008 15:24:43 GMT -5
The album title was changed to It's Not Me, It's You. First single is "Everyone's At It". A pic from the video, took by Lily on her phone:
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Post by vinyl on Oct 21, 2008 18:58:50 GMT -5
Again it's more of a song title to me.. but okay, it's got attitude and it will be amazing.
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Post by SHOOTER on Oct 21, 2008 20:26:08 GMT -5
I liked the original album title!
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Post by **βécky**™ on Oct 23, 2008 15:42:34 GMT -5
Everyone's At It leaked
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Post by ashley on Oct 23, 2008 17:52:49 GMT -5
Good album track, in the same league as Everything's Just Wonderful and Not Big, but this isn't really a first single. The verses are better than the chorus, which is the case with I Don't Know.
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Post by @DiegoMarcondes_ on Oct 23, 2008 22:45:35 GMT -5
"Everyone's At It" is perfect!
I want to see this song at least on the top of Uk charts!
It's a little bit different of other Lily's Allen songs... It's better than the demos (GWB and Who'd Of Know), it's more addictive and have a eletronic beat so WOW... A very good choice to lead single!
Excited!
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Post by Coin-Operated [Boy] on Oct 24, 2008 5:58:46 GMT -5
I like the new single, but it doesn't have that definitive feel to it; but anyways, I still feel compelled to listen to the song. I'm liking her new electro-leaning sound but I hope she doesn't totally abandon ska, which for me has become one her distinguishing features.
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Post by justfloating on Oct 25, 2008 8:46:27 GMT -5
love Everyone's At It...it didnt leak lol she posted it.
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Post by vinyl on Oct 25, 2008 9:15:27 GMT -5
I like it a lot but I'm afraid I'm a liiiittle disappointed. Maybe it will grow on me.
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