Lily Allen wants to kill the Lex!

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"Five years ago Paris Hilton's album would have done really well over here (in the UK), because we didn't have things like the Internet; we didn't have bands like myself or the Arctic Monkeys," Allen said.

"Now people can see (Paris) for what she is, and think: 'Go away! What makes you think you have a life?' Paris Hilton's album did really badly over here and I just think it's so boring and pathetic and it shouldn't happen. It's just laziness. People cheesy enough to buy albums like that should be killed."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Lily Allen has publicly decried Paris Hilton, claiming her music career is a fad.

― harrowing dot vs ethel death scene (don), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wait, the Lex has already struck out in retaliation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

what's wrong with Paris making an album...

Jewel kept on doing it after her debut. i wanna hear Paris. i'm curious.

― Ramzi Awn (Awn, R), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

she's picking on such a fucking easy, obvious target. shows what pitiful musical integrity of her own she has.

it's like kasabian slating coldplay. they all deserve each other.

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

what an enormous bitch. her dog is probably happier with whoever took it,lex or paris.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Musician asked question in interview, gives response, story at 11.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm more interested in the fact that apparently in 2001 the UK was an Internet-free zone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

she's myspace spawn tho, right? i actually have no idea who she is.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

england is a weird place.

― violent j (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

We had the internet, but it was rationed.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

it's like kasabian slating coldplay. they all deserve each other.

L. Jagger...OTM!?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.sportsworldpix.co.uk/image/Leon-Osman-10x8-Print_219734.jpg

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

we didn't have bands like myself or the Arctic Monkeys
we didn't have bands like myself or the Arctic Monkeys
we didn't have bands like myself or the Arctic Monkeys
we didn't have bands like myself or the Arctic Monkeys
we didn't have bands like myself or the Arctic Monkeys
we didn't have bands like myself or the Arctic Monkeys
we didn't have bands like myself or the Arctic Monkeys

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Yoko%20Ono.jpg

bands like myself or the arctic monkeys are over... if you want it

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

f u website

― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

roffle, louis

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Friday, 29 December 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/22/shane_warne_wideweb__470x305,0.jpg

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

why 2 burn teh hoos &c

― BIG HOOS aka the steen driver (hoosteen), Friday, 29 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't a burn, was further irony :-) now the spell is broken :-(

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Now people can see Keith Allen's Devilspawn for what she is, and think: 'Go away! What makes you think you have a life?'

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Friday, 29 December 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish that BITCH would get CANCER

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Saturday, 30 December 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Saturday, 30 December 2006 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Am I the only person who really digs her record? I mean, I'm sure she's a terrible person and everything.

― Michael (Oakland Mike), Saturday, 30 December 2006 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd dig her record (a grave).

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link

For a second I thought this was going to be like when Cheryl Girls Aloud called Marcello Carlin a weirdo in print. Now I realise Lily Allen hasn't actually called the Lex out I'm weirdly disappointed.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 30 December 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't it "he sounds mental"?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 30 December 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link

she's myspace spawn tho, right?

Worse: faux myspace spawn - because myspace is cool and trendy!

― Name Not Found (rogermexico), Saturday, 30 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The marketing department knows.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Paris' album is better. Not a lot better, but better.

And both albums are good.

― Matt Armstrong (gensu3k1), Sunday, 31 December 2006 05:52 (seventeen years ago) link

all movements eventually end in the inbred imbecile stage, congrats poptimists!

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Sunday, 31 December 2006 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Lily Allen ... am I missing something?

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Friday, 16 February 2007 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

no, wait. she's awful. i'm missing absolutely nothing. and a horrid person it seems.

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Friday, 16 February 2007 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link

She doesn't support racists.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 16 February 2007 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Did Cheryl out of Girls Aloud really call Marcello mental?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 16 February 2007 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Annoyingly Google hasn't cached the thread, seemingly. It's called "Girls Aloud Diss Longstanding ILX Heart Throb"

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i love cheryl. fuck lily allen though.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Lily Allen wears orange tights. So not a good look.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

also a bowl cut.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link

kind of yeah yeah yeahs fan c. 2002 style.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember when every single indie girl in the country was dressed like Karen O? Man those were fucking dark days.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link

hott!

― da mystery of sandboxin' (fandango), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

lily allen is the worst shit since the streets and until amy winehouse.

thanks for all the mumblesinging over crappy beats, england.

― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

serves ya right

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

To be honest, America has taken Lady Sov off our hands so we don't have to put up with her here, so we should probably send them some good musicians in thanks at some point.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

they get all our best actors already.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

their 'rap music' has torn our society apart

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

oh shit, i was watching 'newsnight' yesterday, about the shootings in clapham, and there were not only campaigners but random, blurry focus guys on the street saying, yeah well this is all down to 50 cent.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

clearly US popular culture in the hollywood golden age, for example, never made a big thing out of guns and gunlore.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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do you have an insanely annoying sister, dom?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

You may be surprised by this fact considering how I act on ILX, but I'm actually an only child.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

hang on amy winehouse = mumblesinger??

― Ole Martin Halck (OleM), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

lily allen is the worst shit since the streets and until amy winehouse.

Amy Winehouse hype started way before teh Lilly Allen, she's on her second album!

― Daniel Reifferscheid (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

alright, not mumbly exactly. but she sounds like she's trying to hide a lit cigarette in her mouth while she's singing.

did they try and sell her first album in the US? have i been blissfully ignorant for that long?

― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

they definitely turned up the marketing heat w. this one and i think tried to reposition her as 'cool'. i hate her so much, so very very much.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember the reviews for the first album being all "like yer Norah Jones/Katie Meula but WITH AN EDGE!" In a funny way I suppose the second album HAS been marketed more agressively, I've read a lot of positive reviews - but they all seemed to take the "this album will fail but it shouldn't cos it's GREAT!" approach.

― Daniel Reifferscheid (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Lily Allen was on SNL last week. Host Forest Whitaker kicked her ass on vocals, who knew he could sing? She has 0 stage presence, but my wife liked her. I dunno, maybe she can be the distaff Madness for Americans.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

"Smile" is catchy, but so's the clap. Be careful out there.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i have this nightmare where mike skinner and lily allen get together and have 20 bulgy-eyed, dirty faced, ugly little children who wander around lisping semi-rhymed couplets about every detail of their lives and occasionally breaking into a maudlin singsong chorus about how their sandwich doesn't have marmite on it or they lost their cellphone or something.

― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder if UK foax are embarrassed by Lily Allen, like she's a sister or too much "like them" and the similarities are uncomfortable, and they can see all these little details that nag at them? The quote above is horrible, obv, but it doesn't change the way I hear her music. In a certain way it's exactly the kind of ill-considered, punching-above-her-weight, wrong-headed blurting that makes her songs so enjoyable (to me).

xpost haha so that's a yes, then!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Lily Allen is fuck all like me or anyone I meet on a daily basis.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The comeback to that is way too easy Dom.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

england is weird!

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

so glad to live in a "classless society"

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

got dat right

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Lily Allen would never happen in America, the equivalent would be Chevy Chase's daughter being held up as the saviour of wry witty multi-culchural pop.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i am trying to think of a famous person's child we've turned into a quasi-hip musical celeb over here

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/tv_pix/mtv/mtv_video_music_awards_2004_arrivals_photos/_group_photos/brooke_hogan12.jpg

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

origin unknown > paul wall

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

as much as it pains me to say it

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

has Chevy Chase ever done a dub parody advocating homosexuality?

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://sjl-static11.sjl.youtube.com/vi/0ZYQ9XowiYY/2.jpg

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

DVD extra, Cops and Robbersons
xp

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i am trying to think of a famous person's child we've turned into a quasi-hip musical celeb over here
-- rip torn vagina (jharvel...), February 16th, 2007.

that one garage producer... MJ cole? or have i finally gone insane?

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

ADAM F

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

lisa marie presley?

lily allen annoys me much less as a personality these days. music still sucks though.

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

lisa marie presley has never, anywhere on god's green earth, been "hip"

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't she sort of mor-'credible' in the same way that sheryl crow was? not hip but not a figure of fun either. her album was the first pop album to be talked about on newsnight review over here, so it had some degree of being taken seriously

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

no!

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean, i never thought i'd ever type these words but sheryl crow would be considered legitimately "credible" by contrast

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

her album was the first pop album to be talked about on newsnight review over here

4 real? this is a good fact.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i remember bonnie greer being insanely idiotic about it.

i mean, i never thought i'd ever type these words but sheryl crow would be considered legitimately "credible" by contrast

not hipster-credible! in the same way that, i dunno, millions of people buy james blunt albums because he's sensitive and writes his own song and is "genuinely talented not like that manufactured pop pap" or whatever their reasons are. ie not an object of derision like, i dunno, lindsay lohan. what little publicity she got here was kind of like that, clearly different in america though.

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

no, you're right, james blunt hasn't been an object of derision at all.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

the difference is that james blunt sold a buttload of records over here too, whereas i think lisa marie being kept on a label is more of an "elvis will strike us down from beyond the grave if we don't put this album out." plus the, uh, world market, i guess. lisa marie's definitely one of those "famous for being famous" types over here.

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Her album didn't go top 40 UK so I think it's safe to say it's not just over there.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

well i assumed.

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

unless you guys had some hasslehoff thing going on with lisa marie that i wasn't aware of.

― rip torn vagina (sandboxhulkington), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

You people need to sort that Hasslehoff shit out. Give him his own reality show over there so he doesn't have to bother us here.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

It will be on UK MTV within six months and the problem will only be exacerbated

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to console myself re Germany beating England at football with "well at least we will never tolerate David Hasselhoff in our pop charts".

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

".... the equivalent would be Chevy Chase's daughter being held up as the saviour of wry witty multi-culchural pop."

I'd have thought Dennis Leary or Bill Hicks would be a better equivalent to Keith Allen.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: Keith Allen vs. Lily Allen.

Vindaloo vs. Alphie.

― jim (jim), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Alfie even.

― jim (jim), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Amazon directed me to a Marcello list when I was looking at the "new" Joe Meek stuff. The list was quite old though, from 2002.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 19 February 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Bill Hicks would be a better equivalent to Keith Allen.

FROWNS.

― stevie (stevie2), Monday, 19 February 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Bill Hicks would be a better equivalent to Keith Allen.

If Keith Allen had died at the age of 32, we'd have had the stand-up, the pro-gay reggae record, and the Comic Strip films (including Gino, Fistful of Travellers' Cheques and The Bullshitters). Not a bad legacy!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 19 February 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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