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Lily Allen: Alright, Still
Interview, Oct, 2006 by Stephen Mooallem
(Regal)
So often it seems that what is commonly considered the "Best of British" is met in America with the sort of awkward silence (followed by outright indignation) that once greeted the idea of kings and pies with meat in them. Will Lily Allen, the Cockney-accented, 21-year-old pop singer who has currently got the U.K.'s knickers in a bunch, suffer such a fate? Her debut, Alright, Still, is filled with some great tracks, such as "LDN," a Streets-style homage to her hometown of London, and "Smile," a reggae-kissed number about a cheating boyfriend whom she consoles and then doses with laxatives. But her tomboyish wit is what rules the day: Given the fact that the video for the biggest song in Britain over the last year required watching a shirtless man coo "You're beautiful" in the snow, it's easy to see why a young woman who sounds like she's auditioning for a Guy Ritchie movie and isn't above dropping the odd "crack whore" would seem a welcome arrival. Whether Americans will cleave to her remains to be seen. But stranger things have happened. Like Right Said Fred.
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