Alright, Still (Explicit)

Taking the UK by surprise, this cocky 20-year old is teaching a thing or two about getting herself heard.

With massive success on her MySpace site, Lily Allen caught the attention of record execs as she went about creating a quirky, cheeky poetry-rap hybrid all her own.

"Lily Allen is about to change the way you think about pop music... Allen is the archetypal singer-songwriter for the iPod generation. Brilliant."
- NME

Introducing Lily Allen - the new sound on the airwaves. Like a female counterpart to Mike Skinner's poetry / rap hybrid, her lyrics are laugh-out-loud funny, with old-school garage and funk breaks with sweet butter-wouldn't-melt vocals. The first single "Smile" is a bittersweet song of revenge on an errant boyfriend, set to a firmly addictive tune.

Lily Allen signed to Regal towards the end of 2005 and, at the same time, started putting tracks up on the internet. Since then she has had a staggering million plus people listen to her music on myspace, whilst her weekly blogs have spread details of her increasingly eventful life across the world. Her two free mixtapes, audacious mixes of her own music with a disparate selection of other tunes, have become collectors' items in their own right.

"Pop should be popular, but exciting and interesting, like T.Rex and the Clash. Steps and S Club 7 shouldn't have been called pop - they should have been called shit ."
- Lily Allen