I don't think I really hear the stupid girls comparison. Aside from tackling similar subject matter they go about it in different ways with very different lyrical styles.

I've listened to this a few more times now and it's growing a rather lot.

Edited November 13, 201311 yr by Calum Sandé

This feels WEIRD coming after Somewhere Only We Know, even more weird when they chart together next week! :lol:

 

I like that it doesn't have the same sound as her last singles (which sounds quite dated now) but seriously that chorus is horrific. She really does not need that much autotune :(

 

 

Not bad on first listen I love her previous album, to be honest I haven't played it for ages, I need to fish it out.

Well, I like the video.

 

The song is definitely better than that other monstrosity that she has kicking around, I prefered a few from the last album but this could grow.

WHAT HAVE I COME HOME TO

 

This is bloody epic i need to sit down WELCOME BACK LILY bow down to the queen indeed

I think the autotune is there satirically though?

I think the autotune is there satirically though?

 

It better be :lol:

That's definitely the impression I got. She's not someone who needs it and seeing as it's basically having a go at many pop music artists these days, it would make sense for it to be satirical. :lol:

I don't even really notice the autotune too much oops.

 

Cannot remember a song was this instant for me. Perfect song/video package, would be surprised if it DOESN'T go to #01 at this point really.

Actually not hating this, oops.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/lily-allen-har...yesha-a-siddiqi

 

Last thing I'm gonna say about this vid, this just explains what was in my head in a much more clear, eloquent way

A misguided article for a few reasons.

 

1. It interprets the video as a parody of hip hop culture when it's really not. It parodies bling culture moreso, and that is not something black people have a monopoly on anymore, whatever its origins.

2. Even if it was parodying hip hop culture, hip hop is no longer exclusively a black domain (if it ever was).

3. Ignores the presence of the non-black dancers.

4. Ignores the fact that actually the clear subject of Lily's ridicule in the video is the manager, an old white man, thus the video more exposes the inherently white, privileged male-dominated nature of manufactured pop culture than makes any kind of comment about the black dancers.

5. The article assumes Lily is speaking for all women when in fact she's perfectly entitled to state that she, personally, feels no need to objectify herself in a video. Obv to parody those kinds of videos using a more diverse/white group of dancers would make little sense given that said videos usually employ black girls. It has to be recognizably a parody.

6. Why do we need diversity at all times anyway? Maybe black dancers shake their asses better than white girls as a general rule. There's nothing wrong with that. The girls in the video are skilled professionals doing a job. Criticising Lily for employing them whilst supposedly fighting the corner of black women seems rather hypocritical. Like what, these dumb black girls don't realise that they're being objectified by the rich white popstar and would be better off not getting employed? Please.

I mean it just seems to me like people looking for an issue for the sake of it. Again.

And that's not me belittling the idea of racism or w/e, it's just that lily allen isn't racist.

Let's be honest, if Lily did have the white girls doing the twerking and stuff- people would final another reason to slam the video.

If you don't hire black dancers for your video - you are obviously racist. If you do hire black dancers for your video - you are racist for 'using' them. Poor Lily didn't stand a chance. :(

 

Who the fuck cares. Seriously. This video/song is obviously about sexism in music industry. This is such a non-issue IT HURTS.

^Totally agree.

 

The accusation that this video is racist is both ridiculous and extremely ignorant. I'd expected better of Ben TBH. :(

I can see nothing at all to suggest racism on Lily's part here, that article is one of the most ill-informed pieces I've read all year, completely tunnel visioned, going with their own argument without looking at the wider social and contemporary pop culture context that the video/song fits into, along with the factors (sexism, social class etc...) that Jark mentioned. Don't even understand why racism has been brought into it personally.

 

As an aside, I love the song on first listen, got so much time for Lily, always have done. Alright Still is such a masterpiece.

Everything about it is satirical, the sound... the autotune... the look... worst thing anyone could do is take ANY of it seriously.