Tag: Lily Allen
Lily Allen’s “Trigger Bang” as a Natural Companion Piece to “Relapse”
While everyone was sleeping on Lily Allen’s fourth album, No Shame, one of the many songs that seemed to be forgotten too quickly was its [Read More…]
Hilary Duff’s Comeback Success Has Nothing to Do With Luck (…Or Something) and Everything to Do With the Same Earnestness That Established Her Career to Begin With
The last time Hilary Duff released an album, it was just days before anyone knew that Donald Trump would make his intentions to run for [Read More…]
Eternal Sunshine Redux: Madison Beer’s Locket
In the three years since Madison Beer released her last studio album, Silence Between Songs, it isn’t as if she’s left her listeners totally bereft [Read More…]
Best Albums of 2025
Compared to the movies released in 2025, there’s no denying that the musical offerings were slightly more exciting and arguably more billable as being part [Read More…]
Yes, Lily Allen’s So-Called Revenge Is Obviously Also Through the “Codedness” of Some Highly Specific Interior Design References
For whatever reason, it took most people this long to grasp that part of Lily Allen’s “revenge” (a.k.a. simply telling it how it is) against [Read More…]
If You Need a Hit, Robyn’s Gonna Give You It With “Dopamine”
Well before Lily Allen and Lorde were disappearing from music for long stretches of time (though the latter never extends her absence past four years), [Read More…]
Ellie Goulding Serves Some Wuthering Heights Vibes of Her Own With “Destiny” Video
Charli XCX isn’t the only one to be feeling the spirit of Emily Brontë by way of Emerald Fennell lately. For it seems Ellie Goulding [Read More…]
Lily Allen’s “Cheryl Tweedy” As Forerunner to Charli XCX’s “Sympathy Is a Knife”
In July 2006, there was no denying the chokehold that Lily Allen had over British radio airwaves. Or, perhaps more “modernly,” the chokehold she had [Read More…]
Don’t Compare West End Girl to Lemonade—The Former Is Far More Scathing
As the “hot takes” on Lily Allen’s West End Girl keep coming, among the most frequent “revelations” from the internet is that the album is [Read More…]
The Most Thorough Breakup Album in the History of Breakup Albums: Lily Allen’s West End Girl
In what is arguably the Pet Shop Boys’ most signature song, “West End Girls,” Neil Tennant commences with the verse, “Sometimes you’re better off dead/There’s [Read More…]
