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December 4, 2008

New Lily Allen Video - "The Fear"

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On Monday we heard "The Fear," from Lily Allen's forthcoming It's Not Me, It's You. As mentioned, it was an updated, retouched version of an April demo, a song that pokes fun at losing touch with reality, rich people. For the video Lily's gone back to being a brunette and from her powder blue and pink trailer (teddy bears on the line) to a mansion complete with Madonna's servants, a room full of cupcake sweets, and dancing presents and balloons (aka ballet dudes in tights). Kind of like Cribs at Rip Taylor's place.

It's Not Me, It's You is out in the UK on 2/9 via Parlophone.

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i kinda like the chorus.

and I feel weird about liking it.


Posted by: bizznatch at 12/04/08 2:08 PM  | Reply
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The Jimmy is strangely attracted to this song. And Lily.

Posted by: Jimmy James at 12/04/08 2:45 PM  | Reply
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I like it. I like light pop songs that aren't about loving/longing/heartbreak. Every now and again, even your ears needs dessert.

Posted by: Emily at 12/04/08 2:46 PM  | Reply
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Amazing she is so chunky with all the coke she does. It will be interesting to see how she does against the new crop like Katy Perry, Emmy, Florence, etc. She may have waited too long.

Posted by: Paul at 12/04/08 4:00 PM  | Reply
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This is actually great. even the lyrics are clever. Love the sarcasim

Posted by: Bronson Tiddleson at 12/04/08 4:15 PM  | Reply
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this woman can do no wrong in my eyes.someway,somehow,i WILL marry her.

Posted by: alf at 12/04/08 4:26 PM  | Reply
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It's time to face it: Lily Allen is a very good songwriter. I think she puts all the other newish girls to shame.

Posted by: Michael at 12/04/08 4:28 PM  | Reply
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I don't think she wrote it, wasn't it penned by "hitmakers" and was once going to go to Avril?

Posted by: kookoo  in reply to Michael's comment at 12/04/08 4:32 PM  | Reply
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Oh please. She wrote it, Greg Kurstin produced it.

Posted by: kt  in reply to kookoo's comment at 12/04/08 7:40 PM  | Reply
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i love it...2009 is going to be an amazingly fun year. Woot, no more Bush!!

Posted by: johnnytantan at 12/04/08 4:46 PM  | Reply
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The song is kind of fun, and she looks really cute in the video. I still don't like that first single which doubled as a PSA though.

Posted by: BrianB at 12/04/08 5:40 PM  | Reply
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I like it as well, and I feel weird about that as well.

Is that the same estate that was in the Don't Look Back in Anger video?

Posted by: Alan Knut at 12/04/08 5:47 PM  | Reply
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Lily Allen > Katy Perry

Posted by: Neko at 12/04/08 7:38 PM  | Reply
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like the song, hate the production.

Posted by: alias at 12/04/08 8:27 PM  | Reply
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This video confuses me alot. It seems like Lily lost alot of her charm and her wit has faded away. She looks like a barbie doll, if you hadn't told me it was lily allen i'm not sure i would know. As for the song, it's nice and funny and minimally edgy, but i wished she made it more intersting and showed off her voice more. it gets a little old and this video doesn't do much for the song.

Posted by: Aaron Doobz profile link at 12/04/08 10:11 PM  | Reply
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Anybody else get a Bjork vibe?

Posted by: Hmmmm at 12/05/08 12:20 AM  | Reply
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Erm...nope? What video were you watching?

Posted by: GTRmon  in reply to Hmmmm's comment at 12/05/08 6:02 AM  | Reply
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I'm not accusing her of anything...I just think she looks exactly like Bjork to me in this vid. The song obviously doesn't sound like Bjork at all.

Twas just a simple observation.

Posted by: Hmmmm  in reply to GTRmon's comment at 12/07/08 4:04 AM  | Reply
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i agree, she's styled strikingly similar to Bjork in the "It's Oh So Quiet" video. This one even directly and shamelessly rips some shots straight from it as well.

Posted by: Michael  in reply to Hmmmm's comment at 12/11/08 11:50 PM  | Reply
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err..No

Posted by: Dan  in reply to Hmmmm's comment at 01/28/09 2:53 PM  | Reply
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She's a pretty great artist. Looking forward to the LP. It's all good and fun. Quite the 80s vibe in a way that doesn't annoy me ala a lot of the people who use that sound.

Posted by: John Claude profile link at 12/05/08 1:00 AM  | Reply
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i love lily allen.

Posted by: Mandy profile link at 12/05/08 4:53 AM  | Reply
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Lilly sounds kind of depressed, and considering her year it makes sense.

Posted by: ManH profile link at 12/05/08 5:19 PM  | Reply
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I have remained a loyal fan regardless of her wacky year, loving the song quite frankly. very excited to hear more. and hopefully a US tour

Posted by: joey at 12/05/08 9:43 PM  | Reply
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gee that video is nice.

Posted by: jon at 12/05/08 10:49 PM  | Reply
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Mmm, she get's on my nerves a lot sometimes, but she's still talented and I still like her music. I don't normally like music videos that much, most of them are just so stupid, but I like this one and it suits her and the song very well, which I don't feel happens very often with music videos.

Posted by: Megan at 12/17/08 2:51 PM  | Reply
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