Tag: Lily Allen
Allie X’s “Reunite”: A Plea for Reconciliation—And Also Thematically Aligned With Lily Allen’s “Back to the Start”
On the heels of releasing the solipsistic anthem, “Is Anybody Out There?,” Allie X has already unleashed the second single from HIGGY a.k.a. Happiness Is [Read More…]
On Lola Young and Amy Winehouse’s Generational Divide When It Comes to Dealing With Addiction
While Amy Winehouse might have “glamorized” addiction (in a far less deliberate way than Lana Del Rey “glamorizing abuse”), her proverbial predecessor/the person who is [Read More…]
Lola Young Continues to Prove Herself to Be the Musical Lovechild of Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen on I’m Only F**king Myself
In 2016, Lola Young played one of her earliest live gigs at a pub called The Bedford in London. She was sixteen at the time, [Read More…]
Lily Dabblin’: On Allen’s Departure from Miss Me?
Ever since Lily Allen “unofficially” stopped making music on a consistent basis in 2014, with the release of her third album, Sheezus (a title that [Read More…]
In Honor of Laufey’s “Snow White,” A List of Songs About Beauty
With the release of Laufey’s affecting single, “Snow White,” it’s worth looking back on some of the various other songs that women (the gender most [Read More…]
Too Much (Of Lena Dunham Once Again Attempting “Realism”)
Although Lena Dunham hasn’t disappeared from the spotlight by any means in the years since Girls came out, there’s no denying her cachet has diminished since that [Read More…]
Lorde Goes Deeper and Deeper on Virgin
The road to Virgin release day has been a long one. Not just the creation of the album itself, which Lorde, in her synesthetic state, describes as [Read More…]
Lola Young Tries to Rein in Some of Her Self-Destructiveness on “Not Like That Anymore”
While Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse might have once been the undisputed British queens of lyrical self-deprecation (and generally self-destructive behavior), there’s a new princess [Read More…]
Addressing the “Christmas Gooch” Period: Sabrina Carpenter’s “is it new years yet?”
On the December 18th episode of Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver’s biweekly podcast, Miss Me?, Oliver perspicaciously mentions, “There is a part of Christmas that can [Read More…]
A Timeline of Lily Allen and the Puppy Backlash
It all began, as most of Lily Allen’s controversies of late, with a glib comment on a podcast. More specifically, Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver’s [Read More…]
