In breaking news today, I am completely in love with and stan harder for (than any other artist this year)…LILY ALLEN. So you might have just seen the video and song debut for Hard Out Here (Bitch). If your reaction isn’t somewhat akin to mine (and Bradley’s for that matter) then I don’t understand you and we cannot be friends.
I’m from London. I grew up with kids that were friends with Lily. I’ve never cared. Ok maybe for a split second with Karl signed her for a CHANEL campaign, but that felt almost in a pre social media world and it just came and went. You didn’t see it re-Tweeted, or tumblr’d or embedded in your memory through inceesant posts on Twitter from the brand or every fashion blog in the world. What was news then, would have been bigger news now.
Anyway, Lily Allen is back and OH MY FUCKING GOD IT IS UNREAL. Take Lorde’s view on the world, combined with a production level and lyrical content that sets new bars for artists, humans, human artists and artistic humans. It’s (and this is no word of live) revolutionary. Yes social commentary has always been a part of Lily through music, but after retiring and un-retiring, two children, media commentated weight gain filled amidst a world of ass shots as record covers, nudity and gratuitous self publicity through sexual innuendo, Lily Allen has officially taken to the stage to sit you back down in your seat and shut the fuck up.
Watch it. Understand its importance and congratulate Lily on trumping every pop song of 2013 to date.
