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Lily Allen looking smokin' HOT, talks business & feminism
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How have things changed since you’ve been away?
Things have got more desperate, on the business side of things. People aren’t buying music any more. It’s difficult to sell people anything, they want it for free. On the famous- person tip, things are maybe easier. Maybe it’s something to do with the phone tapping thing, but it feels different. It doesn’t feel like they’re so physically there.
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How did you want to develop musically? Air Balloon is quite a light, poppy song for you.
You know what it was? With Hard Out Here, it has the word bitch in it 72 times, so I knew it wouldn’t be a radio song. And with the opportunity to do the John Lewis [Christmas ad] thing, the reason I took that on was that I knew it’s a nice juxtaposition with Hard Out Here. That sweet grandma-loving song versus this other tough thing. With Air Balloon, it’s a great pop song, but it’s not definitively me. But as I hope it starts going up the playlists on the radio, something else will come along that will do the same job as Hard Out Here did with the John Lewis song. It’s like Beyoncé on a budget [laughs]. Releasing two things fighting each other. But it’s what you have to do these days to succeed. You have to do the saccharine pop stuff that the radio controllers are going to play on their shows, and luckily you have the internet for the other stuff. It’s essentially what a B-side was to an A-side back in the Seventies.
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[Talking about Hard Out Here]It appeared to be about the judgement of women, though. Do you think things are changing in that respect?
It’s much the same. But I don’t think men are the enemy, I think women are the enemy. I know that when I’m sitting in a restaurant and a really beautiful woman walks in, who’s skinny, I instinctively think, “Oh she’s really skinny and beautiful and I’m really fat and ugly.” Every man I speak to always says they find that kind of woman gross, and they prefer a bit more meat on their ladies. So it’s more of a competitive thing. It’s weird. It’s just really unhealthy and we’re our own worst enemy. We should stop being so horrible to each other.
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The title track Sheezus mentions Katy Perry and Rita Ora and addresses women on the music scene again...
It just dribbled out! It’s not supposed to be provocative and it’s not attacking anyone, although it does namecheck a few people. It’s about how girls are pitted against each other, unlike men. I know you had it in the Nineties with Blur versus Oasis, but it’s not the same thing. It’s like ‘Who looks the best?’, ‘You’re getting too old to do this, you shouldn’t be doing that’. There seems to be a moral undertone when women are concerned that doesn’t happen with men, and that’s what that song is about. Stop this now [laughs]. Feminism. I hate that word because it shouldn’t even be a thing any more. We’re all equal, everyone is equal so why is there even a conversation about feminism? What’s the man version of feminism? There isn’t even a word for it. There’s no reason for it. Menanism. Male-ism. It doesn’t exist.
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