Tag: lily allen
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Alex Turner is a cock – surprise! And NME still love him
Classic NME storm-in-a-Yorkshire-tea-cup, and also revision of history. Alex Turner does a frankly brattish and not at all punk nor rock and roll, acceptance speech, and NME laps it up as some Dylan Judas moment. Umm, you’re accepting an award from MASTERCARD Alex? You is not punk, nor rock and roll. Say ‘Fuck Mastercard and…
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I love that John Lewis advert
I like how they worked a topical theme into it this year. (Not safe for kiddies or Tories).
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Lord Footnote vs The World
I’ve never even heard of this Lord Finesse (oh such a player…oh he was the vocal sample in Rockafeller Skank?…that’s hip hop history *right there*. Looking at his wiki page and 3 albums it does make me wonder if this is the hiphop version of patent trolling?) but this video by Dan Bull spells out…
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Death of the ‘authentic’ indie artist? (Lana Del Rey)
Currently haunting my days via 6Music is the song by Lana Del Rey – Video Games – and her follow up Blue Jeans is above. LOVE the found aesthetic of the video, the scratchy super 8 and grainy footage – yes it’s done before, but with the new/old song (hiphop mentions in a noir smokey…
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Yr new tune of the summer – Just Be Good to Green
After Nothin On You hit UK #1 as I predicted it would, your next summer smash is gonna be Just Be Good to Green – Lily Allen and Professor Green. Love how they’ve basically recreated the Beats International ‘Dub Be Good to Me’ proto-mashup – Bankrobber bassline and Morricone harmonica and all.
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Who will be big in 2010? BBC’s Sound of 2010 hits the meh barrier (again)
Heard a bunch of the BBC’s Sound of 2010 on Music Week and on the wesbite, apparently ‘165 UK-based tastemakers’ worryingly, and my instant responses: The only ones I liked were The Drums who have been getting airplay already, Two Door Cinema Club cos of the Vamps influence (ditto Stornaway cos I’m a big fan…