I agree with many saying The Fear is their favourite LA song….. those gorgeous synths!

Edited Thursday at 10:532 days by Jaz13music

Hard Out Here was huge in Germany/Austria/Switzerland curiously, what with it being such a fleeting hit here.

Love that Knock 'Em Out is here <3 One of my all-time favourite album tracks, alongside Everything's Just Wonderful from the same album.

F*ck You definitely should have been a single, it won BJSC just from it being a MySpace leak over six months before the album release.

At the time I really wanted 'Everyone's At It' to be a single, shame it never ended up being one.

Knock em Out at 20, my fave Lily song! Should have been released

3 hours ago, Rob said:

I think the most impressive thing is how much bigger her second album era was than her debut. There are so few British female artists who maintain success, never mind having a bigger sophomore era. Adele is probably the only other one I can think of. Lily could so easily have ended up in a similar trajectory to the likes of Jessie J, Emeli Sande, Duffy, etc.

Tbf to Dido she wasn’t far off her total sales of her debut album when she released ‘Life For Rent’ too. (2.9m sales compared to ‘No Angel’ 3.1m)

For a few years Dido also had the fastest selling album for a female with LFR.

Also, the hype must have been quite low by 2008 around her comeback for her to upload the album's best tracks nearly a year in advance to MySpace and just let them live on there - this included The Fear, which was called I Don't Know when it was on MySpace.

I really think the strength of that song helped her overcome the second album slump that most British female artists have, because nobody was really talking about her by 2008 or particularly anticipating her second album, the general public had moved over to Amy/Duffy/Adele - much more soulful and 60s inspired stuff, and I thought Lily's eventual second era would turn out like Natasha Bedingfield's ended up being. Unleashing such a killer single into a quiet January/February market was a great move.

4 hours ago, Rob said:

I think the most impressive thing is how much bigger her second album era was than her debut. There are so few British female artists who maintain success, never mind having a bigger sophomore era. Adele is probably the only other one I can think of. Lily could so easily have ended up in a similar trajectory to the likes of Jessie J, Emeli Sande, Duffy, etc.

I was surprised to see that Alright, Still actually outsold Its Not Me, It’s You as the latter definitely felt like a bigger era.

I've just been listening to this collection of 20 songs back-to-front and have to agree with 'The Fear' being her best single, perfectly pitched commentary and fantastic synth-pop production.

I have a bit of a nostalgic soft spot for 'Smile' as I was in love with it at the time but I think 'LDN' is my favourite single from that era nowadays, so charming.

Ooft the lyrics of '22' hit so differently now I'm a woman in her late 20s instead of the 12-year-old version of myself when it was released as a single, sheesh

For some reason it's only just dawned on me that 'Who'd Have Known' sounds a lot like Take That's 'Shine' melodically, I see Lily and Take That actually did a medley of those two songs on Children In Need, so I'm very late to the party with that observation haha

I still like 'Hard Out Here' but Sheezus as a whole was a pretty disappointing project. I thought 'Trigger Bang' was a return to form and it still sounds good now, shame it didn't do anything for her chart-wise at the time. But now... here we are! Looking forward to seeing what this list looks like when the West End Girl tracks are embedded in time.

5 hours ago, Rob said:

I think the most impressive thing is how much bigger her second album era was than her debut. There are so few British female artists who maintain success, never mind having a bigger sophomore era. Adele is probably the only other one I can think of. Lily could so easily have ended up in a similar trajectory to the likes of Jessie J, Emeli Sande, Duffy, etc.

Lola Young but I think not many people even knew she released an album before Messy blew up.

You're right though, it's very rare. Amy Winehouse as mentioned, Raye maybe? Dua Lipa to a degree, I don't know.

2 hours ago, Jessie Where said:

At the time I really wanted 'Everyone's At It' to be a single, shame it never ended up being one.

I wanted Back To The Start. Amazing album though, half of the songs feasibly could've been singles.

I just realised that the "I look at the sun and I look in the mirror" lyric in 'The Fear' is referring to the newspapers! 😂 It's gone from being the weaker lyrics of the song to the best!

32 minutes ago, Liam.k. said:

I just realised that the "I look at the sun and I look in the mirror" lyric in 'The Fear' is referring to the newspapers! 😂 It's gone from being the weaker lyrics of the song to the best!

I used to joke that Taylor was talking about the papers too in AH , I stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror, 🤣

I’m actually really surprised fu*k you didn’t chart, when I think about her that’s the standout song that comes to mind!

I seen it trends a lot on tik tok im suprised it hasn't charted low at least

2 hours ago, RobBot said:

I wanted Back To The Start. Amazing album though, half of the songs feasibly could've been singles.

Chinese or I Could Say would also have made great singles.

F U really was a missed opportunity!

I get how people are saying f*** You would have made a great single, but I think radio would have found it difficult to get on board, even with the expletive censored. It's easy to see why it wasn't a single.

Just now, Mangø said:

I get how people are saying f*** You would have made a great single, but I think radio would have found it difficult to get on board, even with the expletive censored. It's easy to see why it wasn't a single.

If only she could have done like CeeLo Green did and do a version replacing "f***" in the title.

1 minute ago, Ne Plus Ultra said:

If only she could have done like CeeLo Green did and do a version replacing "f***" in the title.

This Jade also literally did the same this year replacing f*** in FUFN for Forget

5 minutes ago, Ne Plus Ultra said:

If only she could have done like CeeLo Green did and do a version replacing "f***" in the title.

Yeah that's a good point. "Forget you very very much" would have sounded a bit clumsy but I guess it could have worked.