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The Official Lily Allen Thread; New album "No Shame"
Topic Started: Feb 2 2009, 04:28 PM (1,779 Views)
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Glamorama
Feb 2 2009, 07:26 PM
How can anyone know for sure that it was an abortion. I heard the rumours but to be honest how would the press know? Surely she wouldn't have announced the pregnancy if she was planning a termination.
Its one of the worst kept secrets in showbiz.

Her boyfriend at the time didnt want her to have it, so she agreed to get rid.

She didnt want to announce she was pregnant as she was planning an abortion, and when the press find out, she had to say it was a miscarriage.

FACT.
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Disgraceful!!!
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johnnox
Feb 3 2009, 11:31 AM
Her boyfriend at the time didnt want her to have it, so she agreed to get rid.
Hmmm - what a charmer. He dumped her a month after she had it scraped out.. Probably best that she had her innards flushed like she did.
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Exactly.
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Glamorama
Feb 3 2009, 11:39 AM
johnnox
Feb 3 2009, 11:31 AM
Her boyfriend at the time didnt want her to have it, so she agreed to get rid.
Hmmm - what a charmer. He dumped her a month after she had it scraped out.. Probably best that she had her innards flushed like she did.
No....YOU'RE the charmer.

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Kate Nash may be shit overall but Pumpkin Soup is still a gorgeous song.

Still not really feeling this album.
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henZ
Feb 3 2009, 02:08 PM
Kate Nash may be shit overall but Pumpkin Soup is still a gorgeous song.

Still not really feeling this album.
Yeah, she's no Paris Hilton.

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HAHA
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the only thing i don't like about the album are the lyrics. I mean, they are really good, but after four songs i want to shake her and tell her to stop whining and enjoy life for once. A couple of songs about bees and flowers would have been very welcomed.
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Feb 3 2009, 06:25 PM
the only thing i don't like about the album are the lyrics. I mean, they are really good, but after four songs i want to shake her and tell her to stop whining and enjoy life for once. A couple of songs about bees and flowers would have been very welcomed.
:lmao: But most of the lyrics are very clever and cute! She doesn't whine on...eh... "Chinese". :confused:
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I actually think I'm kind of over this album already. :confused: The songs were all so instant and catchy, that I'm now a bit sick of them just a couple of days later. It didn't help that we already had half the album I guess.

OH WELL.
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LMAO.. No BEST RECORD OF 2009!! anymore?
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Oh it's still an excellent pop album. Just not sure if it has lasting appeal.
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article5645178.ece

4 out of 5 from The Times

If there’s one maxim that can regularly be deployed to help a pop star faced with a blank page, it’s the one coined by Ernest Hemingway: if you write one thing, write the truest thing you know. When Hemingway dispensed his famous advice, he probably didn’t have the Lily Allen song Chinese foremost in his thoughts. “You make me beans on toast and a nice cup of tea,” Allen sings, “then we’ll get a Chinese and watch TV.”

In this context, it’s not hard to see what Allen was getting at with the title of her second album, It’s Not Me, It’s You. Imagined as a riposte to the suggestion that fame has changed her, songs like Chinese are proof of the titular pudding. The bottom line? If it happened to her, then there’s a decent chance of it making one of her songs and to hell with discretion.

Allen may not have changed but the world she inhabits is audibly different from the one detailed in 2006’s Alright, Still. The arrangements are more brittle, the bells and whistles of modernity supplanting the carefree bounce of Smile and LDN. It’s a difference flagged from the outset. Everyone’s at It is a symbolic goodbye to Portobello salad days refracted through the rose-tinted glasses of youth. In it she observes that sometimes we all do things we know to be bad for us.

Happily, Allen’s ability to spin a couplet that would have other singers tried for rhymes against humanity is as intact as it was when she delivered the killer “Tesco/al fresco” volley in LDN. Indeed, in the lovely Who’d Have Known they stack like planes and in the process somehow accentuate the unguarded sweetness of a song that captures the light-headed rush of a new relationship: “Even though it’s moving forward/There’s just the right amount of awkward.”

Introducing the song last week, Allen confessed that she had inadvertently plagiarised the chorus from Take That’s Shine. If nothing else, her admission is a reminder that, wherever her maturing thoughts take her, pop is audibly where she came from. It should be added that these remain treacherous times for anyone seeking to stay the course as a pop star. Recent albums by the likes of Alesha Dixon and Sophie Ellis Bextor haven’t wanted for decent tunes but neither have they sold in significant quantities. What is it about Lily Allen – currently top of the singles charts with The Fear – that appears to connect with people? She’s long since sucked us into a Truman Show of her own making. As long as the charm and the tunes remain intact, we’re powerless to resist.

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It has lasted like... three days???? hahaha
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Feb 5 2009, 12:21 PM
It has lasted like... three days???? hahaha
:chuckle: Nah, it is a very good album. I think I just OD'd on it. Too much, too soon!
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Nothing on the album beats Kabul Shit I think. I can't believe it's only a b-side.
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Feb 5 2009, 02:33 PM
Nothing on the album beats Kabul Shit I think. I can't believe it's only a b-side.
Bad decision alright!
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There's a really cool feature in the bonus content that comes with the CD. It takes you to a website where you can download all the track 'stems' for every song on the album. The stems are each individual track that makes up a song, so for example, for "The Fear" you can download the lead vocals, background vocals, bass, drums, guitars and keys. You can do your own remix then, should you wish. I wish we had access to all the stems for M's stuff! :drama:
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Feb 6 2009, 05:26 PM
There's a really cool feature in the bonus content that comes with the CD. It takes you to a website where you can download all the track 'stems' for every song on the album. The stems are each individual track that makes up a song, so for example, for "The Fear" you can download the lead vocals, background vocals, bass, drums, guitars and keys. You can do your own remix then, should you wish. I wish we had access to all the stems for M's stuff! :drama:
OH MY GOD.

I think I just orgasmed a little :drama:
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