It's only a phase: June 2006

Lily Allen - Alright Still, the Album

A little follow up to my post earlier this year about Lily Allen, who's album 'Alright Still' is out in early July 2006.

Things have gone quite crazy for the young lass, who seemed rather unprepared for it all. I myself even messaged her about her forgotten myspace page http://myspace.com/lilyallen where the current single, LDN, was still availble for free download, presumably from the days when she was still trying to just get her music out there. (It quickly got removed before you go & check, & without a reply of thanks I might add!! :( I might have saved her thousands in royalties!)

Most of the tracks have been extensively picked up by the radio stations, and you can listen to quite a few on her normal myspace page or her new 'proper' site lilyallenmusic.com

Here's my thoughts on the other tracks on the album which aren't available on her myspace pages:
Not Big
A nicely polished track that suits Lily's style really well - It's a pretty harsh story about an ex (if it's true I feel for the guy she's talking about!) and has just the right balance between hip-hop & cutesy pop chorus. "I'm sorry if you feel that i'm being kinda mental, but you left me in such a state - now im gonna do what you did to me, I'm gonna reciprocate" & boy she sure does, attacking his bedroom antics, intelligence &, as you can guess from the title, the size of his naughty bits!

Shame for You
Quite a funky rolling number, complete with deep horns & a wicked chorus. Not quite as strong lyrically as some of the other tracks, "Oh my gosh you must be jokin me, if you think that you'll be poking me!", but still pretty entertaining.

Alfie
"Oh little brother please refrain from doing that, I'm tryin to help you out so stop being a twat!" - IMHO this is one of the greatest tracks on the album & tells the story of Lily's little brother who basically smokes too much pot! It's got a great fun circus-style vibe to it & has some great samples thrown in there based around the lyrics. More like this Lily!

The links to some of the tracks still work from my last post, & if you really want to get a preview of the rest of the album tracks, drop me an email as I don't want to post them here for obvious reasons.

Overall I reckon it's an album well worth owning, just cos its got that something a little bit different to anything else out there at the moment.

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Illustration Friday - Dance

Cheekily for this weeks IF topic I'm using a digital illustration that I already posted here recently - but I think it fits in rather well!

Picture the scenario - it's the 'Monsters Ball' final year school dance (get it, duh!). All the boy-monsters on one side, all the girl-monsters on the other side but then the last slow song has come on & this poor monster can't pluck up the courage to ask anyone to dance!