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It's Not Me It's You

Artist: Lily Allen
Label: Parlophone
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

112 reviews
Sales Rank: 49

Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4

EAN: 5099969427626
ASIN: B001JFP7GW

Release Date: February 9, 2009
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Tracks:

•	Everyone's At It
•	Fear
•	Not Fair
•	22
•	I Could Say
•	Back To The Start
•	Never Gonna Happen
•	Fuck You
•	Who'd Have Known
•	Chinese
•	Him
•	He Wasn't There

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
Itrsquo;s always going to be difficult to assess a character like chav-pop mad-mouth Lily Allen, seeing as absolutely everyone has an opinion on her, regardless of whether they know who she is or how they arrived at it. Where does the kicking tabloid caricature end and the artiste begin? For these reasons alone you should be grateful for emItrsquo;s Not You, Itrsquo;s Me/em, as it finally crystallises all the chaos of the last couple of years into a succinct, sparkling and occasionally brilliant album. Of course it isnrsquo;t as sweet as her debut, emAlright, Still/em (which did have a candyfloss side and bright eyes in spite of its wordy bravado), but it is just as cheeky if you allow for the glitter, sheen and high production values that are working to elevate her to Proper Pop Star status. This is not an album that sounds like it came from lying on her bed on a Sunday morning putting her world to rights from the night before, but listen to the eloquent javelin-sharp sarcasm of ldquo;The Fearrdquo;, touching confessions of budding love on ldquo;Whorsquo;d Have Knownrdquo;, or revelling in the ordinariness of a relationship on ldquo;Chineserdquo; and you recognise the talent that got everyone excited about the ladette Mike Skinner in the first place, even if on those two softer moments she evokes Kate Nash more than Kate Nash does Lily Allen, oddly. Overall though, this chic electro pop matches and sometimes surpasses the ska-lite DIY of her debut. --emJames Berry/em

Customer Reviews:

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Quirky, Original and Breezy February 25, 2009
Steve Horsfall - Author (You Are Here ; Full Story Inside) (UK)
26 out of 32 found this review helpful

I loved Alright Still and really wondered if Lily Allen could produce another album of equal quality and appeal. The answer is a big YES - this has all the quirky appeal of the first album with poetic lyrics and tunes that hook and stay with you (I've lost track of the number of times I keep singing 'you're so mean' to myself). The tone throughout is once again modern girl with attitude and wrapped up perfectly with the music. The best album out there at the moment in my opinion.

5 out of 5 stars

Lily Allen, Surprisingly Very Good! February 20, 2009
Mr. R. M. Thompson (London, UK)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful

Normally I'd turn my nose up at Lily Allen but after hearing The Fear I thought I'd finally give her a chance. br / br /I got myself a copy of the album and haven't been able to stop listening to it. br / br /The tracks aren't all amazing mind you but she isn't trying to be a vocal diva. F**K You is the most addictive of the radio friendly songs this album has to offer but they would be nicer if she replaced a few of the harder words with nicer ones, instead of trying to shock. br / br /A very good attemp of a second album, this coming from somebody who normally turns over whatever I hear her or see her on television. br / br /It's good for a listen when cleaning if nothing else.

5 out of 5 stars

Shockingly Intelligent February 17, 2009
Steven Stewart (steveo.stewart@hotmail.co.uk)
21 out of 32 found this review helpful

Three long years after the massively successful debut album "Alright, Still" Lily Allen returns with her deceptively beautiful voice, and erudite commentary on todays youth society to make yet another massively successful album. I must tell the truth from the get go and say that from the beginning I absolutely despised Lily Allen. I found her vulgar and crass and saw her as the personification of the ill respectful chav culture. This idea was of course before I became familiar with the girl and the music she presents to the world. br / br /Throughout the last 3 years I have become aware that there's much more of a charming and wonderful character behind some of the foul language and the hate filled rants against her fellow celebrities. She is someone who is in reality quite a frail person and that is sometimes evident in her music, but she shows a genuine love for her family and her life at the same time. The song "Alfie" from "Alright, Still" presented a fun loving depiction of her younger brother which I'm sure he's still not too happy about. br / br /Anyway, let's look at this album. So what's different? Well, Lily's 3 years older and much wiser because of the fact which has also led her to calm down a little. Two songs on this album really stand out from the crowd. They shout "THIS IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE" which is especially in the case of the first single "The Fear." She sings about the youth culture and celebrity status and in a recent interview says that the recent rise of celebrities who are famous for being famous give children nothing to aspire for. This is surprising intelligence displayed by what many would consider to be quite a cliché pop singer (of course those who say that don't know her). br / br /The other genuinely memorable song is the shockingly entitled "F**k You" which is her own farewell song to the man that is George Bush. Now it may be old news to us now, but I'm sure when she was writing it, Bush was at the height of his public idiocy. This song although a harsh commentary on the Bush years presents itself in a sarcastically upbeat tone. br / br /She's a fantastic musician and although the majority of the album is an upbeat pop sounding album, to listen to the lyrics is to gain a wider education about ourselves and our society. Lily has had an eventful 3 year career in the public eye, some of it unfortunate, some of it joyful. What we need to be aware of is that she makes fantastic music which nobody should be ashamed of listening to although I can imagine many may be slightly embarassed to begin with.

5 out of 5 stars

omg!!! Its sooooo good!! February 13, 2009
S. Watts (Sunny Weymouth, UK)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful

OK, first and foremost be warned..... not for the feint hearted!!! Lily doesnt mince her words, if you get my drift!! br / br /Now, that aside, this album is the best thing I have heard in ages, in fact I think it might just be worth it for "Its not fair" alone!! br / br /On a cold, gloomy February night, I just sat here smiling, headphones in (two kids to protect!!) and loving it!! br / br /I can highly recommend this album, you wont regret it!

5 out of 5 stars

It's just wonderful, Lily, now please don't kill everyone August 20, 2009
Jon (UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

You grow up surrounded by incestuous, self congratulatory media ghouls--what with daddy singing Vindaloo and trying desperately to act while mummy produces films--and what do you get? Well, you get a career in pop music handed to you on plate while honestly talented people have to work for it. Congrats! Then you have all of daddy's friends in the press writing about you and you've suddenly got momentum. People even say you're pretty when you actually look like Eddie Munster, while even Kate Moss likes getting her piccy taken with you. Hooray! You've finally made it! Not that there was a single chance you wouldn't with so much slimy, depressing and sickening manipulation working behind the scenes. br / br /So an honest review of this album would say that it sounded like the inane prattling of an overindulged, self-obsessed, silly, mewling, public school brat who had been given a producer, a studio, someone who knows how to generate endless streams of pop-garbage-lite and a full team of drones handling all the carefully massaged PR. It has no soul whatsoever and nothing at all to say. It's as if Jean Baudrillard had been handed the opportunity to create an unnecessary product and sell it to the world, just to prove that people really will buy any gobbet of rubbish provided that it's packaged correctly. Come to think of it, in the right hands this could actually be Postmodern terrorism. It could be sent over to The Guardian in the hope that they might completely embarrass themselves by drooling all over it on the reviews page. br / br /(Oh whoops..actually that's already happened...probably because the NME got there first) br / br /For that reason I actually think `It's Not Me, It's You' counts as a work of genius. Of course, I don't mean the good kind of genius that gave us penicillin or albums by Faust. Rather I mean the evil kind of genius that Bond villains are supposed to have. The sort of scheming, dark brilliance that wants to blow-up Cern and create a black hole in Geneva. Or maybe just create a black hole in the culture. br / br /Consequently it's vital that more and more of us get behind Lily and share her various concerns about, say, being unwarrantedly famous...or taking manageable doses of cocaine...or not really liking that God geezer...or how hard it is to be even more loudmouthed and clueless than her father...because otherwise Christ knows what this woman might do next! These are desperate times, people, and if Lily's career starts to slump then she may start aiming nukes at Paris while bemoaning her boyfriend's sexual inadequacy on huge stadium sized TV's. br / br /For the good of humanity, then, I beseech you to go and buy this album. In fact, you should perhaps buy multiple copies and hand them out in the streets. Even give a few of them to your pets or simply force yourself to crunch-up these revolting, putrid, nauseating CDs and inhale them. Just whatever the hell it takes to stop Lily Allen destroying all of the life on planet earth! Remember, if we survived the horror of Kula Shaker then there's a very slim chance that we may even survive this, too. br /

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