Sad Lily Allen sings ‘I’m not alright’
Lily Allen’s new album demos are a window into her alarmingly bleak view of the world at the moment.
The songbird has swapped the sunny pop songs of first album Alright, Still for dark, troubling ditties focusing on the negative side of success. She picks over the bones of a painful break-up on one track and confronts feelings of paranoia on another.
Both are on her MySpace page.
Frank and shocking I Don’t Know is about the pressures of living life in the public eye. She sings: “I don’t know what’s right and what’s real any more.”
She adds: “I’m being taken over by the fear.”
And on the touchy subject of weight, she sings: “Everything’s cool as long as I’m getting thinner.”
Meanwhile, I Could Say is a venomous dig at an ex – Ed Simons from the Chemical Brothers, I wonder?
Lil evidently wants high-brow critical acclaim with her new-found serious side – and she’s likely to get it.