Since the moment I heard Lily Allen’s “Smile” last spring (accompanied by her legendary video) I loved her. Her explicitly British looks matched (or mismatched rather) with her flowy dresses, fresh sneakers, and lovely gold machine gun (no sarcasm, I love that necklace) make her a character fit to put the boys of this generation in their place. Although I have missed her shows in NYC not once but twice, her cd is still on perpetual repeat (interrupted by blocks of Kooks and now Kings of Leon once again). Although I adore every song on the album my favorite of the moment (because when I first found her I listened to the same songs on her myspace over and over again before I got the album therefore I am someone jaded to them) would have to be “Not Big” and “Shame on You.” “Not Big” is a fierce song that I am simply in love with, Lily sings, “all the times that I said I was sober, well I’m afraid I lied. I’d be lying next to you and you next to me all the while I was high as a kite” and “how would it make you feel if I said you never made me cum” and “Let’s see how you feel in a couple of weeks when I work my way through your mates” and “I’m gonna tell the world you’re rubbish in bed now” (my fascination with that quite is mainly how it sounds it the song) basically every line is quotable and hot. I love “Shame on You” mainly because of its terrific beat and mixing (she has an amazing mixer!) but it’s got some V nice lyrics as well such as “you’ll be crying like a baby, a sea of tears they’ll call the navy in” and a handful more. Basically I love her and now everyone else does as well (including Degree deodorant that is now using that song Lily samples in “Knock ‘Em Out” in their commercial clearly because they want her fame to sell their product – I embarrassingly enough saw the commercial while watching Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader (that kid Spencer is gonna be a serious lady-killer)). www.myspace.com/lilymusic
I love The Kooks. There are perfectly poppy and happy yet sad and oh how I just really love them (I wept, actually, when their may 10th tickets sold out – I didn’t think many people wanted to see them! Then I was crushed once again when Klaxons tickets for the same night turned out to be sold out as well). My only issue is the end of the album – once it gets to the dreaded “Jackie Big Tits” – sucks. Lately I’ve listened closer and realized I actually like “Time Awaits” and “Do You Still Love Me Still?” it’s really just Jackie and her big tits and the drummer’s writing skills on “Got No Love” that make me dread the last notes of “If Only” (possibly my favorite track on the album). This problem I’m sure will be solved once I begin to use my ipod once again and not have to get up to stop the cd on my medieval cd player (/TV, seriously). I lurve them and their lyrics (especially “Eddie’s Gun” lyrics about impotency – on par with Kings of Leon’s “Soft”) and basically they’re terrific and make really amazing music that makes me feel happy and calm. www.myspace.com/thekooks
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