The Rose

Lily Allen was on KCRW yesterday morning doing a live set (what's above is an older clip). Lady Lily, she of the blustery fights (that she usually picks), candor and attention craving. I feel like I've watched her grow, from way back when she was discovered, in America at least, by Thighs Wide Shut years ago; a creation by and for the gaudy brutal Internet...dishing it as well as she can take it.

Allen isn't that strong a singer, but  she is an adorable presence and I love her Eliza Doolittle phrasing and the slight chill in her little songbird voice. From what I've heard she's sounding more mature, especially on her hit The Fear, below. I haven't listened to the album or researched what the song is about exactly. My guess is that it has to do something with dreading the machine that created her. It is a lot like Lily herself: pop, jaded, tongue-in-cheek but inherently positive.