Lily Allen

Lily Allen
Lily Allen performing at Solidays 2007
Lily Allen performing at Solidays 2007
Background information
Birth name Lily Rose Beatrice Allen
Born 2 May 1985 (1985-05-02) (age 24)
Hammersmith, London, England
Genre(s) Pop
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, talk show host
Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar[1]
Years active 2005–present
Label(s) Regal Records
Capitol Records (USA)
Website LilyAllenMusic.com
MySpace

Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and television presenter. Best known for her songs "Smile" and "LDN" and their Mockney style, Allen is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Allen also hosts her own BBC Three talk show Lily Allen and Friends.[2]

Her single "Smile" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006. In December 2006, her debut album Alright, Still was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag.[3] In 2007, it was nominated for the award of Best British Album at the BRIT Awards and for Best New Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The album was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of "Best Alternative Music Album".[4] Alright, Still has sold over 2,500,000 copies worldwide.

A second album entitled It's Not Me, It's You will be released in the UK and United States in February 2009.

Allen's non-career activities have been the subject of extensive press coverage in both in the tabloid and mainstream media. In 2006 and 2007 Allen made comments critical of other musicians. 2008 has seen public incidents that were described as rude, embarrassing or alcohol-fuelled. Allen used her MySpace blog to criticise press coverage and defend and criticise her own behaviour.

Contents

Childhood and discovery

Lily Allen

Allen was born in Hammersmith, west London, daughter of Welsh-born comedian Keith Allen and English film producer Alison Owen.[5] She and her family eventually settled in the North London borough of Islington. She has an older sister, Sarah; a younger brother, Alfie Owen-Allen (who was the subject of her song "Alfie"); and a younger sister Rebecca. She also has a number of half-siblings. Lily Allen lived for a while with comedian Harry Enfield while her mother dated him. She is the god-daughter of Wild Colonials vocalist Angela McCluskey and is also the god-daughter of late Clash singer and guitarist, Joe Strummer. Allen had been to 13 different schools from the age of 8-15 since Allen never could have long lasting friendships instead she wrote music and listened to jazz and hip-hop.

In 1988, Allen appeared on The Comic Strip Presents... episode "The Yob", which her father had co-written.[6] When Allen was four years old, her father left the family.[7] Allen claims to have grown up with her mother in a working class environment, living in a council house environment for most of her childhood.[8] This seems at odds with the fact that she attended some of the UK's costliest public schools; Allen attended 13 schools in all, including Prince Charles's junior alma mater, Hill House School, Millfield and Bedales School,[7] and was expelled from several of them for drinking, and smoking.[9]

Allen told Loveline that at age 11 she was singing an Oasis tune in the schoolyard when a teacher overheard her and told her she had talent and suggested she do something with it. She took singing lessons with the teacher. She sang at a school play and claimed that the audience was brought to tears at the sight of a troubled young girl doing something good. At that point Allen said she knew that music was something she needed to do either as a lifelong vocation or to get it out of her system. She became a member of the Groucho Club at the age of 17 and in her free time, she listened to artists such as The Specials, T.Rex, and Happy Mondays.[10][11]

Allen made an appearance as a lady-in-waiting in the 1998 film Elizabeth, co-produced by her mother, Alison Owen.[12] She dropped out of school at age fifteen, not wanting to "spend a third of her life preparing to work for the next third of her life, to set herself up with a pension for the next third of her life."[13] After her family went to Ibiza on holiday Allen told her mother that she was staying with friends but remained in Sant Antoni de Portmany instead. She earned money by working at a Plastic Fantastic record store and dealing in ecstasy.[13]

Music career

Record label interest

Allen met her first manager, George Lamb, in Ibiza when he saved her from several assailants and sent her home.[13][14] Allen was rejected by several labels, which she attributed to her drinking and being the daughter of Keith Allen.[14] Lily eventually used her father's connections to get signed to Warner Music in 2002.[15] When the executive who had signed her left, the label lost interest and she left without releasing the folk songs they had presented her.[15][16]

Allen studied horticulture with the intent of becoming a florist, but changed her mind and returned to music. She began writing songs, and her manager introduced her to production duo Future Cut in 2004. They worked in a small studio in the basement of an office building.[16] In 2005 Allen was signed to Regal Records; they gave her £25,000 to produce an album, though they were unable to provide much support for it due to their preoccupation with other releases such as Coldplay's X&Y and Gorillaz' Demon Days.[17]

Popularity on MySpace

Allen created an account on MySpace and began posting demos in November 2005.[17] The demos attracted thousands of listeners, and 500 limited edition 7" vinyl singles of "LDN" were rush-released, reselling for as much as £40.[13][17] Allen also produced two mixtapes — My First Mixtape and My Second Mixtape — to promote her work: they included tracks by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dizzee Rascal, and Ludacris. As she accumulated tens of thousands of MySpace friends, The Observer Music Monthly (OMM), a magazine published in The Observer, took interest.[13] Few people outside of her label's A&R department knew who she was, so the label was slow in responding to publications wanting to report about her.[17]

In March 2006, OMM included an article about Allen's success through MySpace, and she received her first major mainstream coverage appearing in the magazine's cover story two months later. The success of her songs convinced her label to allow her more creative control over the album and to use some of the songs that she had written instead of attempts to work with mainstream producers. Allen decided to work with producers Greg Kurstin and Mark Ronson, finishing the rest of the album in two weeks.[17]

The social networking site was the primary hub for messages of support and condolence following her January 2008 miscarriage.[18][19] Allen received a 2008 NME Award nomination for the category of "Best Band Blog"[20] As of 25 April, 2008 Allen's songs have been downloaded from her MySpace page 19 million times.[21] She currently has 474863 friends on her MySpace page.

Alright, Still

Allen's debut album, Alright, Still, was released as a limited-edition 12" vinyl in the UK on 3 July 2006; the full CD release followed in the UK and the rest of Europe on 17 July 2006. The album features between 11 and 14 tracks (depending on the copy of the CD), most of which were previewed on her MySpace page,[22] including the single "Smile" (the first song she ever wrote with Future Cut), "LDN", "Knock 'Em Out", and "Alfie". "Friday Night", co-written with Jonny Bull, is also included, alongside "Littlest Things", produced by Mark Ronson which among other works earned Ronson a "Producer of the Year - Non Classical" 2008 Grammy Award.[23] The album was released on 30 January 2007 in the United States, selling 34,000 copies to land #20 on the Billboard Album Charts.[24] Allen won a 2008 BMI songwriting award for “Smile”.[25]

In September 2006, "Smile" was made available on the United States version of Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store. As of December 2006, her music video for "Smile" has been played on various music channels as well as the song getting a little airplay. She has also done several promotional ads for MTV as their Discover and Download artist of the month for January.

On the week ending on 28 January 2007, British artists made chart history taking all Top 10 places in the Official UK Albums chart for the first time since the chart was established in 1956, according to British record labels trade association the BPI, the album Alright, Still was number nine that week.[26]

Entertainment Weekly named Alright, Still as one of the top 10 albums of 2006 despite the fact that it had not yet been released in the U.S. The album was released in the United States on 30 January 2007, with "Smile" serviced to radio in January as the first single. The U.S. version contains three additional tracks: "Nan, You're A Window Shopper", "Blank Expression" (on the iTunes version) and a new remix of "Smile" by Mark Ronson.

On 5 March 2007 "Alfie" was released. It reached #15 in the UK Singles-Chart. Upon hearing this song, her brother Alfie threw her laptop out of a window in revenge. She sang on the Mark Ronson-produced Kaiser Chiefs song "Oh My God".[27]

It's Not Me, It's You

In April 2008 Allen said she was heading in a "new direction". She posted two new song demos on her MySpace page and plans to release a mixtape shortly to give her fans an idea of what the new direction is.[28][29][30][31][32][21]

Allen has posted on her MySpace page a partial clip of a new song entitled Fuck You which will be on the album. Allen said that the song "is not a direct attack at anyone, it was originally written about the BNP in the UK but then I felt this issue has become relevant pretty much everywhere."[33] In addition she wrote that she was inspired to try and write a song about the last few hours of late American comedian John Belushi's life by her overnight stay at the hotel where he died.[34]

As of 19 August there has been between 250,000 and one million plays for each song from the album that she has made available to listen to on her MySpace page.[35]

The album is scheduled for release on 9 February 2009 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States.[36] Fear the first single from album will be released 26 January.[37] The video for the single was released 4 December.[38] The single is described as an electropop track that discusses celbrity culture.[39] The album was produced by Greg Kurstin at Eagle Rock Studios in Los Angeles.[36] Allen co-wrote the songs for the album with Kurstin at who played piano on it. This is a change from her earlier work in which she just wrote lyrics for finished tracks.[40] . Allen released a statement saying "We decided to try and make bigger sounding, more ethereal songs, real songs,","I wanted to work with one person from start to finish to make it one body of work. I wanted it to feel like it had some sort of integrity. I think I've grown up a bit as a person and I hope it reflects that."[36]

Other songs on the album include "He Wasn't There", a letter to her father; "CCR", in which Allen suggests that God was in the world prior to 11 September 2001 and that "his favourite band is Creedence Clearwater Revival"; "It's Not Fair", a humorous country song about guy who is performing poorly sexually despite Allen's having "spent ages giving [him] head" and "Everyone's At It"[40].[41]

On 23 October Allen released "Everyones At It" the first track from the album for download on her MySpace page. The song appears to be a commentary on the drug culture and is expected to cause controversy. It includes the lyrics " "I'm not trying to say that I'm smelling of roses but when will we tire of putting shit up our noses","It's meant to be fun and this just doesn't feel right","So you've got a prescription, and that makes it legal. I find those excuses overwhelmingly feeble… The kids are in danger, they're all getting hurt. From what I can see, everyone's at it.".[42][43][41]

Collaborations

Allen performing in Warsaw (Poland) - June 2007.

Allen provided backing vocals on the Basement Jaxx song "Lights Go Down" (from Crazy Itch Radio) and appears on tracks on Robbie Williams's latest album, Rudebox on the Manu Chao-cover "Bongo Bong and Je Ne T'Aime Plus" (produced by Mark Ronson) and also on "Keep On". She also provides vocals on "Rawhide" by Jamie T and "Wanna Be" by Dizzee Rascal. She had a duet with rapper Dizzee Rascal on the song "Wanna Be" that appeared on Rascal's May 2007 Maths + English album. [44] Rapper Common has also collaborated with Allen.[45]

On 30 June 2008 Allen and Klaxons singer Jamie Reynolds announced they were working on a new song and had completed a cover of Joe Jackson's "Steppin Out".[46]

Allen and New Young Pony Club provided backing vocals to the song "Never Miss a Beat" that appears on the Kaiser Chiefs' album Off With Their Heads. The song was released as a single on 6 October. Allen's voice on the song was described as unrecognizable due to Mark Ronson's production. On 12 October the song entered the UK Singles charts at number 5.[47][48][49] The album was released on the 13 October. Allen will also provide vocals for the track "Always Happens like That".[50][51]

Other Music

Allen wrote a song for the 2008 Shockwaves Awards entitled "From Barry to Billericay" about comedian James Corden.[52]

In July 2008 Allen released a "sunny" new song "Who'd of Known" that will not appear on It's Not Me, It's You." because according to her MySpace blog she ripped off the chorus from Take That and does not want to deal with the paperwork.[53] Later Allen revealed that the song will be on her second studio album, It's Not Me, It's You. It's unknown if Allen recorded a new chorus for the album version of the track or if she got the rights for the song.

Allen has contributed the song "She's So Lovely and Naive" for the soundtrack of the 2008 British comedy film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.[54]

Allen presented to members of Squeeze their Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award. Glenn Tilbrook later remarked that he really like Allen's cover of Up the Junction.[55]

Touring

In 2007, she played the newly launched Park Stage at the Glastonbury Festival, replacing M.I.A who had cancelled. Saying "it's big shoes to fill, and we're doing it acoustically so it might sound a bit funny" she ended her set singing a cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass."[56] In concert, Allen performed a parody of 50 Cent's "Window Shopper", called "Nan, You're a Window Shopper", which was commercially released as a B-side to "LDN", because approval was not given in time for the Alright, Still release. Nonetheless, the song appears on the U.S. version of Alright, Still.

Allen performed to positive reviews[57][58] when Irving Plaza was rechristened as The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza on 11 April 2007.[59]

Allen canceled a scheduled appearance at the 2008 Isle of Wight Festival telling festival promoter John Giddings the reason for the cancellation is because her album is behind schedule. Giddings said that the reason given is not acceptable and possibly a lie. Giddings has decided not to sue her.[60]

On 29 June 2008 Allen performed at the Glastonbury Festival alongside producer Mark Ronson. An emotional Allen dedicated her performance of "Littlest Things" to her grandmother who died the night before.[61] On 3 July in a surprise appearance with Ronson at the Wireless Festival Allen again appeared with Ronson to perform "Littlest Things" and "Oh My God". She forgot some song lyrics.[62]

The singers first concert to promote the new album is planned for the 28 January, 2009 at Koko in London. This would be the the first London gig in 18 months.[37] In March Allen will embark on a 9 date tour of Great Britain and Ireland.[63] Allen plans a North American tour in the Spring of 2009 to promote It's Not Me, It's You.[36][41]

Television and Film

The singer has been cast as Lydia Bennett in a spoof film version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The singer said "I really want to explore the acting route more, but nothing which involves me taking my clothes off. I don't want to go down that route like a lot of aspiring young actresses do. I just want to do proper cool stuff. I definitely feel the time is right to explore acting."[64]

In June 2007, she hosted The Friday Night Project, in which she showed her co-hosts and the audience her third nipple.[65]

In 2007 the singer signed a one series contract to present her own BBC Three TV show entitled Lily Allen and Friends based on the social networking phenomenon that helped to launch her music career. According to Allen the show will feature "good celebrity guests, not rubbish ones, and brilliant bands playing brilliant music". The singer asked her MySpace friends to suggest the name for the show. Her MySpace friends will also have the chance to suggest questions for her guests, be part of the audience, and perform live music.[66][67][68]. The guests on the first show were Cuba Gooding Junior and David Mitchell, and later guests included Mark Ronson, Joanna Page, James Corden, Lauren Laverne, Roisin Murphy, Louis Walsh, and Danny Dyer. [69][70]. The show received a 2% share of the total multi-channel audience share despite a high-profile nationwide marketing campaign.[71] Her third show received a 2.7% share.[72]

On 1 April citing Allen's rapid development as a TV host and her popularity among its target audience BBC Three announced it was renewing Lily Allen and Friends for a second season.[73]

The BBC was criticized by several teacher unions for a video shown on “Lily Allen and Friends” that apparently showed a student running up from behind and pulling down his teachers trousers. The unions said broadcasting this clip was irresponsible and greatly added to the teacher's embarrassment. While introducing the clip Allen called it kegging and said “It's very childish, but very funny”.[74]

Personal life

At age 15, Allen spent four weeks at The Priory clinic under 24 hour watch after the singer, distraught over a breakup with a boyfriend, took an overdose and tried to cut her wrists. Allen told The Sunday Times that "In my teens I did experiment with drugs” and “I don’t know anyone now who isn’t a drug-taker, in recovery from drugs, or on prescription drugs".[75] Allen in another interview said that she used ecstasy at age 14.[76]

In November 2007, the singer revealed that she has been diagnosed with a heart murmur. The singer sparked concern when she shed 19lbs (8.6kg) and dropped from a UK size 12 to a size eight in just six weeks. Allen explained the weight loss on cutting back on the "crap" she eats and going to the gym three times a week to do a "hardcore routine" as a reaction to the diagnosis.[77]

Allen suffered a miscarriage on 16 January 2008 after returning from holiday with Ed Simons of The Chemical Brothers. The child would have been the first for both parties. The couple met in September 2007. The pregnancy was said to have changed Allen’s entire outlook on life.[78][79][80] Allen returned to work on six days after her miscarriage because she did not want to let her fans down. [81][82] In November 2008 Allen was quoted in a British Tabloid as saying that her miscarriage was "toughest thing I've had to go through in my life." that put her in a "very, very dark place". Allen was quoted as saying that one on one sessions she is undergoing with a therapist has been very helpful for her. [40][83]According to Allen's father, her relationship with Ed Simons has ended.[84]

Allen was a smoker before she gave up the habit during her pregnancy.[85]

In an interview for Glamour magazine, Allen said she had stopped drinking during her failed pregnancy and had been stayed at home during the evenings to avoid temptation making her "sad and lonely".

In her blog, Allen blamed the paparazzi for smashing the windows of her car. She wrote that her friend was cut when she sat in the car and that she was angered and upset by what she called a scary situation.

Allen's bedroom is decorated with paintings by Damien Hirst and Paul Simonon who was a member of the iconic punk rock group The Clash.[86]

On 23 May in her MySpace blog Allen responded to press reporting about her personal life. She denied specific reports about her relationships and behaviour as well as negative characterizations of her personality. She confirmed she likes to swim topless and drink saying this is not embarrassing behaviour for a 23 year old. She said the reporting was sexist and that sometimes she wonders if the journalists are still living in the 1950s.[87] In November of 2008 in reaction to attacks on her following a incident at the GQ Awards Allen again stopped using alcohol so as not "to give people any more ammunition to make me feel silly".[88]

In August 2008 Allen said "I'm not gonna say I'm never gonna do drugs again. I just know I'm not a good person on drugs".[40]

A man described as a close friend of Allen's and another male were allegedly kidnapped in August 2008 for extortion and held for a week before being rescued by Metropolitan Police. Three men pleaded not guilty to various charges related to the incident on 27 November.[89] Allen thanked the police and gave details of the plot at the 2008 GQ Awards. Former Scotland Yard chief John O'Connor called Allen's releasing the details of the alleged plot "outrageous" saying it may jeopardise the case. The friend involved is also alleged to be upset with Allen's revelations [90][91]

On 5 August 2007 Allen was detained at Los Angeles international airport for five hours and questioned over an alleged assault on a photographer in London in March of that year.[92] At that time her U.S. visa was revoked. On 8 October, 2008 her visa was reinstated.[25]

Fashion Activities

In May 2007 Allen launched a line of dresses, shoes, and accessories entitled ‘’Lily Loves’’[93]

Allen is reported to enjoy a "special relationship" with Chanel fashion house that is said to include borrowing clothes and jewelery from them and being flown in to sit in the front row of their shows.[94]

Allen won the 2008 Glamour Woman of the Year Awards "Editors Special Award".[95] Allen was nominated for a Highstreet Fashion Award in the category of "Best Dressed Celebrity".[96] In a readers poll done for the weekly British style magazine Look Allen was named the ninth best style role model. [97]

Allen has been described by the United Kingdom edition of Elle Magazine as a person who is not overly trendy in her fashion choices.[98]

Public Persona

Due to her outspokenness, Allen has been the subject of many controversies. Disparaging remarks about musicians Luke Pritchard of The Kooks, Bob Geldof,[99] Cheryl Cole of Girls Aloud,[100] Amy Winehouse[101], and Kylie Minogue[102] have all garnered minor amounts of press attention. She later expressed that making fun of other pop stars were a result of lack of confidence saying "I felt like 'Oh God, I'm short, fat, ugly and I hate all these people who flaunt their beauty'."[103] Photos of her drunk and topless in the Cannes Film Festival were also widely covered in the press.[104][105] Her appearance at the 2008 Glamour Awards of the Year also generated criticism, as she showed up intoxicated with a dress depicting decapitated Bambi figures, and had an on-stage, expletively-laced exchange with Elton John.[106][107][108]

Social activism

Allen helped inspire a parliamentary rebellions against Prime Minister Gordon Brown when she wrote to all members of Parliament asking them to back an amendment to an energy bill that would copy a system in Germany that pays homeowners, farmers, small businesses and owners of public buildings a fixed amount for every unit of renewable energy they generate (a 'Feed-in Tariff'). The government was forced to call back energy bill supporters from their campaigns and the move was defeated by a vote of 250 to 210.[109] She records at Studio A which is the only solar powered studio in Europe.[110]

Allen has been nominated with nine others for the title of Greenest Star in Playhouse for Disney Playhouse's inaugural Playing for the Planet Awards.[111]

Allen performed at a benefit concert for War Child an international child protection agency that works with children affected by war. Backed up by Keane Allen sang Smile and Everybody’s Changing. A DVD of the benefit has been released.[112]

Allen on her MySpace blog proposed a benefit concert to aid victims of rising knife crime in London. Allen met with London Mayor Boris Johnson about this issue. [113]

Reception

Allen was included on the NME Cool List for 2006. She was voted the third coolest person of the year in NME Magazine.[114] She ranked "Number One Reason to Love '07"[115] and "Hottest Woman of Pop/R&B."[116] in Blender magazine. Allan was also rated number 10 on BBC Three's list of Most Annoying People of 2006.

Rapper Example has recorded a new version of "Smile" called "Vile", which is an answer song written from the perspective of the ex-boyfriend (although he was never actually Allen's boyfriend[117]). Both songs were then parodied by Chris Moyles on his Radio 1 breakfast show in a song called "Piles". "LDN" has spawned an answer song by rapper Sway DaSafo and a remix by UK grime artist JME.

Evening Standard columnist Nick Cutis wrote that "Lily Allen and Madonna have arguably done more for female equality with their "unladylike" swearing in public than with their singing careers."[118]

Discography

Main article: Lily Allen discography

Awards and Nominations

2006 - Q Awards - Best New Act - NOMINATED

2006 - Digital Music Awards - Best Pop Artist - WON

2007 - NME Awards - Worst Dressed - WON

2007 - MTV Video Music Awards - Best New Artist - NOMINATED

2007 - Brit Awards - British Female Solo Artist - NOMINATED

2007 - Brit Awards - Mastercard British Album (Alright, Still) - NOMINATED

2007 - Brit Awards - British Breakthrough Act - NOMINATED

2008 - Highstreet Fashion Awards - Best Dressed Celebrity - NOMINATED

2008 - Grammy Awards - Best Alternative Music Album (Alright, Still) - NOMINATED

2008 - Glamour Women of the Year Awards - Editors Special Award - WON

2008 - BMI Awards - Smile - WON

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Lily Allen
Albums
Alright, Still · It's Not Me, It's You
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"Smile" · "LDN" · "Littlest Things" · "Shame for You" · "Alfie" · "The Fear"
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"Oh My God" · "Drivin' Me Wild" · "Never Miss a Beat"
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Discography · Keith Allen · Alison Owen · Alfie Owen-Allen · Lily Allen and Friends