I just discovered Lily Allen, as is often the case since I try new music using my Rhapsody account and it seems like she is following on the heels of Katy Perry with provocative lyrics with a friendly beat.

Songs like “F**K You” for instance which you would expect from an aging punk band or angry wannabe lesbian alternative band. The lyrics are angry but the music to the lyrics makes it all very charming. The opening piano on the song reminds you of a feel-good song sung by The Carpenters.

It’s a little hard to tell who the lyrics are aimed at, but it certainly seems to start with targeting bigots:

So sick and tired.
Of all
The hatred you harbor,
so you say
It’s not okay to be gay,
Well I think
You’re just evil.
You’re just some racist.
Who can’t tie my laces,
You’re point of view
Is medieval.

The lyrics get a little harder to interpret later on but maybe the whole song is targeting bigotry. I’m not sure. I simply think it’s a catchy tune with an epithet.

The rest of the album is filled with more amusing lyrics and accompanying music. When did young girls get so ballsy and foul-mouthed? Or am I just being patronizing?

BTW: There is an edited version of “F**K You” with horn and horse noises interrupting the epithet. This one is funnier because of the odd attempts to censor the chorus and I hope it makes it to the airwaves.

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