Lily Allen has revealed that her Twitter feud with Azealia Banks helped motivate her to write new songs.
Allen made her comeback earlier this month with the track 'Hard Out Here', which is her first original song since 2009 and the first taster of her new, long-awaited studio album, which is scheduled to be released in 2014. Speaking on Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 show this morning, Allen revealed that she had found it difficult to write new material until her row with Banks in July of this year.
Allen and Banks swapped numerous barbs on Twitter, with Banks describing Allen's children as "ugly" and her husband, Sam Cooper, as looking like a "thumb". Allen responded by calling the rapper a "one-hit wonder" and posted a picture of a penis which had been crudely made up to resemble a black person.
Referencing her and Banks' spat while talking to Grimshaw, Allen said: "There was one person that was particularly nasty to me on Twitter for no apparent reason. And I was struggling with finding my voice - not my singing voice, because I've never found that - but my writing voice. And this one person was being particularly horrible to me and I happened to be in a studio session at the time, and it was just brilliant because it ignited this juvenile flame in my belly. So thank you, Ms. Banks."
I love Lily.
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