Kick Off Your Summer With Lily Allen
Yes, I have returned. With college done for the term, I’m reporting from my parents’ basement, just like a real blogger. I’ll try to get back into the Monday-Friday update schedule, but it may take a while.
One thing that will change is the daily theme formats. As fun as they were, the got kind of limiting as time went on, and prevented me from putting some really great stuff up at times. Granted, there will still be inductions made to the Men and Women of Musical Genius lists, just not necessarily on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Such is the case with today. A few posts ago, I made mention of Lily Allen, who I’d stumbled across on good old Pitchfork while looking up their take on the latest Sufjan track and fulfilling every last bit of the indie rock nerd stereotype. In any case, I was blown away. The girl was equal parts Nellie McKay and Mike Skinner of The Streets, and one hundred percent musical genius.
Unfortunately, her songs were nowhere to be found aside from her incredibly popular (and thus unreliable) MySpace profile and—in what just might be the coolest thing ever—a link I found to her mixtape, in which she intersperses her songs with things such as Dizzee Rascal tracks and yodeling (yes, yodeling).
Fortunately for all you out there, I finally stumbled across some mp3s. “LDN” has been heralded by many as a near perfect summertime pop song (and I’d have to agree), while “Knock ‘Em Out” has Ms. Allen throwing down like a pro about the sexual politics of the bar scene.
In a just world, this girl would put all the Ashlee Simpsons and Hilary Duffs of the world to shame on the record charts… it probably won’t happen, but a guy can dream, right?
Lily Allen- LDN
Lily Allen- Knock 'Em Out
One thing that will change is the daily theme formats. As fun as they were, the got kind of limiting as time went on, and prevented me from putting some really great stuff up at times. Granted, there will still be inductions made to the Men and Women of Musical Genius lists, just not necessarily on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Such is the case with today. A few posts ago, I made mention of Lily Allen, who I’d stumbled across on good old Pitchfork while looking up their take on the latest Sufjan track and fulfilling every last bit of the indie rock nerd stereotype. In any case, I was blown away. The girl was equal parts Nellie McKay and Mike Skinner of The Streets, and one hundred percent musical genius.Unfortunately, her songs were nowhere to be found aside from her incredibly popular (and thus unreliable) MySpace profile and—in what just might be the coolest thing ever—a link I found to her mixtape, in which she intersperses her songs with things such as Dizzee Rascal tracks and yodeling (yes, yodeling).
Fortunately for all you out there, I finally stumbled across some mp3s. “LDN” has been heralded by many as a near perfect summertime pop song (and I’d have to agree), while “Knock ‘Em Out” has Ms. Allen throwing down like a pro about the sexual politics of the bar scene.
In a just world, this girl would put all the Ashlee Simpsons and Hilary Duffs of the world to shame on the record charts… it probably won’t happen, but a guy can dream, right?
Lily Allen- LDN
Lily Allen- Knock 'Em Out
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