Lily Allen
Lily Allen at a Glance
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English recording artist, talk show host, and actress. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her teenage years comprised her evolution in musical tastes, from glam rock to alternative. She ran away from home to attend the Glastonbury Festival at the age of fourteen. A year later, Allen abandoned school and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. Afterwards, she created several demo songs, and near the end of 2005 , she created a profile on MySpace, where she made some of h...
Lily Allen - Smile
Alright, Still - The Lily Allen Album
But one listen to her debut album Alright, Still dispels any doubts about young Ms. Allen's star quality. Possessed of a feisty wit and taste for urban storytelling that should see her compared to Mike "The Streets" Skinner, these 11 tracks of sunshine-friendly reggae-pop cover topics including frustrating potential closing-time suitors ("Knock 'Em Out"), being happy when your ex is having a bad time ("Smile"), and having a little brother who likes a bit of a smoke--and not just of the tobacco variety ("Alfie"). Wisely, however, Lily Allen doesn't let the grittiness of the subject matter tarnish the golden pop suss of the songs, a suite of gleaming productions by names including Mark Ronson and Gwen Stefani collaborator Greg Kurstin that take inspiration from the lighter end of reggae and vintage rocksteady. Doubtless some corners of the press will pillory her as a poor role model, but there's an engaging honesty to the likes of "LDN"--a love song to a city filled with teenage muggers, pimps, and crack whores, narrated by someone who's cycling because "the filth took away my license." Like father, like daughter. -- Louis Pattison
Alright, Still
1. Smile
2. Knock 'Em Out
3. LDN
4. Everything's Just Wonderful
5. Not Big
6. Friday Night
7. Shame For You
8. Littlest Things
9. Take What You Take
10. Friend Of Mine
11. Alfie
12. Nan You're A Window Shopper (US Bonus Track)
13. Smile (Version Revisited) (US Bonus Track)
When I first heard that Lily Allen was going to be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, I was like, "Who is THAT?" Then I read up on her and, well, I don't know what kind of trend she's trying to set, but she seems to spend a great deal of time dissing other artists for no reason. Maybe it's just to make headlines or something, but whatever the case, her debut album Alright, Still shows that snooty people can make good albums.
With her lyrics, Lily has a creative way of being funny and direct, as shown on tracks like "Smile" and "Shame For You". And there are other good selections like "Littlest Things", "Friday Night" and "Friend of Mine". But my favorite song is the necessary tribute to your hometown, "LDN" (London).
Lily also tries her hand at rapping on here, and she really doesn't sound that bad; still, in the otherwise good "Knock `Em Out" (where she tries to avoid unworthy guys in the club), her excuses for not talking to the guys get a little extreme at the end of the song. And "Nan You're a Window Shopper", a parody of 50 Cent's "Window Shopper", is hard to get into. "Take What You Take" doesn't really go anywhere; and sorry, but "Not Big" is pretty childish.
Alright, Still remains a very above-average album, though. One usually doesn't find music that's so brutally honest and entertaining at the same time, so give it a spin. -- Anthony Rupert (Milwaukee, WI)
Release Date: 01/30/2007
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Smile, Part 1 - Lily Allen
Smile, Pt. 1
1. Smile Album Version
2. Gutter Mix
Release Date: 07/04/2006
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Smile, Pt. 2
1. Smile
2. Cheryl Tweedy
3. Absolutely Nothing
4. Smile (Video)
More genius from the very refreshing Lily Allen. "Absolutely Nothing" resembles a Happy Mondays track more than her typical sound, but "Cheryl Tweedy" is typical, with its great rhymes. Worth it if you liked "Alright, Still". -- Paula L. Guthat "latymer14" (Hockeytown, USA)
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Alfie EP
1. Alfie
2. Smile
3. Everybody's Changing [Live]
4. Nan You're a Window Shopper
5. Alfie [CSS Remix]
6. Smile [Version Revisited] [Mark Ronson Remix]
7. Alfie [Video]
8. LDN [Tyo Version] [Video]
9. Littlest Things [Video]
Release Date: 07/23/2007
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LDN
Release Date: 09/26/2006
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LDN, Part 2 - Lily Allen
LDN, Pt. 2
1. Ldn
2. Naive
3. Ldn (Warbox Original Dub)
4. Ldn (Video)
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