History Music / LilyAllen

Lily Rose Beatrice Allen, known professionally as Lily Allen, is a British artist known for light pop songs, usually with some form of satirical message behind them. She was born in London on May 2, 1985, to actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her brother Creator/{{Alfie|Allen}} (a target of at least one of her songs) is an actor, he played Theon Greyjoy on ''Series/GameOfThrones'' most famously.

* AdultFear: When you know that "Take My Place" is about a stillbirth and OutlivingOnesOffspring, it becomes a big case of Adult Fear.

Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper, known professionally as Lily Allen, is a British artist known for light pop songs, usually with some form of satirical message behind them. She was born in London on May 2, 1985, to actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her brother Creator/{{Alfie|Allen}} (a target of at least one of her songs) is an actor, he played Theon Greyjoy on ''Series/GameOfThrones'' most famously.

* ClusterFBomb: "Fuck You" has total of about 30 fuck-you's. The singer does not like, respect, or care about racists, homophobes, bigots, haters, small-minded people and similar scum.

* YourCheatingHeart: "Smile" is about a woman who takes a revenge on her cheating ex, which includes getting him beaten up, putting laxative in his coffee and having his stuff in his apartment destroyed, including his precious [=LPs=].

Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper, known professionally as Lily Allen, is a British artist known for light pop songs, usually with some form of satirical message behind them. She was born in London on May 2, 1985, to actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her brother, Creator/AlfieAllen (a target of at least one of her songs), plays Theon Greyjoy on ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

-->Every month, that's what the [[PainfulRhyme theory is]]

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** "Smile" is about a girl getting revenge by systematically ruining her cheating ex's life. The music video has the dissonace. at least. The song itself is about taking pleasure in her ex's suffering, not necessarily caused by Lily.

* AdultFear: When you know what "Take My Place" is [[OutlivingOnesOffspring about]] a stillbirth, it becomes a big case of Adult Fear.

* AffectionateParody: "Nan, You're A Window Shopper" is an affectionate parody of Music/FiftyCent's "Window Shopper".

* ClusterFBomb:
** "Fuck You"
** F*** you, [[Film/PitchPerfect Sockapella]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NHTtw-qxc version!]]
* CrapsaccharineWorld: "LDN" about London and how everything looks exciting and wonderful at first, but when you take a second look...

* AdultFear: When you know what "Take My Place" is [[OutlivingOnesOffspring about]] ([[spoiler: Lily having a stillbirth]]), it becomes a big case of this.
* AGodIAm: The surface concept behind Sheezus

* BadassAdorable: Lily has some serious balls hidden beneath her cutesy pop songs.
* BiTheWay: In 2018, she confessed to having sex with female escorts while on tour in 2012 as a result of post-natal depression.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: How Lily finds her brother in "Alfie".

* ClusterFBomb: "Fuck You"

* CrapsaccharineWorld: "LDN" about London and how everything looks exciting and wonderful at first, but when you take a second look... Indeed, most of Lily Allen's songs come across this way due to the musical style they use and the sound of her voice. "Smile" and "The Fear" come to mind.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** "The Fear" begins thus:

* DisappearedDad: Keith Allen wasn't around much when Lily was young. They later reconciled though, and this became the subject of "He Wasn't There".
* DisproportionateRetribution: "Smile" had the singer's character pay people to beat him up, ruin his means of livelihood, mess up his apartment, and put laxatives in his coffee, while she pretends to be comforting. The lyrics indicates that while he had been cheating, they aren't even going out anymore.
* DullSurprise: And how.

* LyricalDissonance: Allen seems to love the trope.
** "LDN" by Lily Allen borders on a LampshadeHanging. It's an upbeat song about how the back alleys in London are nowhere near as nice as the rest of the city...
** The music video lampshades the lampshade. In it, everything is all bright and perky and cheery as Lily goes skipping along-- at least until she's out of range when everything reverts to its normal twisted self.
** Quite a few of Lily Allen's songs are like that. "Smile" is about a girl [[strike:getting revenge on her boyfriend]]systematically ruining her cheating ex's life
*** The music video is, at least. The song itself is about taking pleasure in her ex's suffering, not necessarily caused by Lily.
** "Alfie" is about her brother doing drugs.
** "The Fear" talks about the pressures of being famous and the dark side to fame.
** Basically every single song on the first album "Alright Still" consisted of sugar-sweet pop with bitter and cynical lyrics (Exception: "Littlest Things"). She broadened her style in later albums but it remained a theme...
--->I don't know what I'm meant to feel anymore...

** Also "Fuck You" is a very upbeat, cheery song where Lily chews up intolerant people while dropping total of about 30 [[ClusterFBomb F-bombs]]

** 22 is a very upbeat song and its lyrics are, well...
--> "It's sad but it's true how society says her life was already over..."

** "Take My Place", arguably.

* PantyShot: Lily often gives fans of candid shot hers.
* RealityWarper: In the music video for ''Fuck You'', Lily appears to be one, inflicting funhouse-mirror-ish transformations upon random people and buildings as she wanders around town.

* RichBitch: Lily paints herself as this in "Silver Spoon". Yes, it's in SarcasmMode.

* SurvivalMantra: "Life For Me" can come off as this as Lily must keep repeating she is happy with her more calm life.
* TakeThat: "Hard Out Here" is pretty much several minutes of jabs at sexism in the music industry. It's even more apparent in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0CazRHB0so music video]], which mocks Music/MileyCyrus and Music/RobinThicke especially.

* TakeThatCritics: "URL Badman".
* TripleNipple: Proud owner of one.

* TakeThat: "Hard Out Here" is pretty much several minutes of jabs at sexism in the music industry. It's even more apparent in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0CazRHB0so music video]], which mocks Music/MileyCyrus and Creator/RobinThicke especially.

* TakeThat: "Hard Out Here" is pretty much several minutes of jabs at sexism in the music industry. It's even more apparent in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0CazRHB0so music video]], which mocks Music/MileyCyrus and Music/RobinThicke especially.

Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper, known professionally as Lily Allen, is a British artist known for light pop songs, usually with some form of satirical message behind them. She was born in London, 1985, to actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her brother, Creator/AlfieAllen (a target of at least one of her songs), plays Theon Greyjoy on ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

Lily Allen is a British artist known for light pop songs, usually with some form of satirical message behind them. She was born in London, 1985, to actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her brother, Creator/AlfieAllen (a target of at least one of her songs), plays Theon Greyjoy on ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

** "The Fear" seems to contain references to her miscarriage.
*** However, the song more than likely is talking about the pressures of being famous although lyrics including "Life's about film stars and less about mothers" could be seen as a reference to how the media tends to cover trivial issues more than serious issues including miscarriages and the chorus could be a reference to her emotional process after the miscarriage.

* PantyShot: Lily often gives fans of candid shot of hers.

* TakeThat: "Hard Out Here (For a Bitch)" is pretty much several minutes of jabs at sexism in the music industry. It's even more apparent in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0CazRHB0so music video]], which mocks Music/MileyCyrus and Music/RobinThicke especially.

** The music video lampshades the lampshade. In it, everything is all bright and perky and cheery as Lily goes skipping along-- at least until she's out of range, when everything reverts to its normal twisted self.

*** I would like to know how.
*** The lyrics 'Life's about film stars and not about mothers' seems to be a reference and the titular Fear could be a reference to her depression after the miscarriage.

*** The music video is, at least. The song itself is about taking pleasure in her ex's suffering, not necessarily caused by Lily Alan.

*** The music video is, at least. The song itself is about taking pleasure in her ex's suffering not necessarily caused by Lily Alan.

** Quite a few of Lily Allen's songs are like that. "Smile" is about a girl [[strike:getting revenge on her boyfriend]]systematically ruining her cheating ex's life, "Alfie" is about her brother doing drugs...