Lily Allen To Quit Music If 2nd Album Flops
I love Lily Allen with a passion. Yes I know she’s got a potty mouth, as one of my friends keeps reminding me, and yes, I know she’s probably more big headed than is deserved with the limited success she has had outside of her native UK, but I don’t care, there is still something about the woman which makes me want to go out on a drinking binge with her.
Part of the reason is because I think she gave the British music scene a much-needed kick up the backside when she went from being Keith Allen’s daughter with a lot of friends on MySpace to being a best-selling pop star. And now I hear that she could be quitting music… Lily, say it ain’t so.
Rolling Stone recently interviewed Allen about her career, and her second album, with the working title of Stuck On The Naughty Step. She did her usual trick of saying exactly what she thinks and how she feels, and then dropped the bombshell that she could give up singing if the album flops.
She said:
“I’m really scared about what people are going to say,” she said. “Some people will like it and some won’t. If people hate it, then I’ll just try something else.”
“I’d really like to do A&R at a record company. I love going to gigs.”
While I think Allen would make a great A&R person for some lucky record label or other, it would leave a void in the UK charts, with the only really fun female artist having gone. British music is currently blessed with some great female singers, including Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Adele, but they are all quite serious to some degree. Lily Allen is a bit more fun and frivolous.
I can’t actually see this happening because Lily’s second album isn’t going to flop. I’ll be buying it and if just a small percentage of Allen’s MySpace friends also buy it, she’ll be laughing all the way to the bank, and a third album.
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