Short girl - Lily Allen is the balsy new voice of women in the 2000's. She's unafraid, a real woman, and she made it to the top with nothing more than a myspace profile and a Glastonberry ticket stubb.
5'2, 24 years old, and now Karl Largerfeilds muse for Chanel, she's come pretty far, even with celeb parents, she took the hard road to fame by running away from home at the age of 15 to go to the famous Glastonberry music festival and eventually persue her dreams of music, claiming that she "didnt want to spend a third of her life preparing to work for the next third of her life, to set herself up with a pension for the next third of her life." She began writing and composing music and in 2005 created a myspace page showing what she was made of for the very first time. Page views growing faster and faster she was quickly signed to Regal Records in 2006 and soon after brought out her first studio album. Then in July 2006, her first single "Smile" reached number one in the brittish music charts.
She became increasingly popular and won a trio of awards ranging from the Grammys, MTV and the Brit awards. Soon enough she would have her own show "Lily Allen and friends" on Brittish television.
Though unfortunatly, after the release of Lily's second album "Its not me, its you" 09, she announced that she cannot see herself making profit by making any new albums and will not be renewing her record contract when it ends. She has said that she will take a two year break from performing starting March 2010 to launch a record label and open a fashion rental shop.
In January 2010 The Guardian ran an editorial praising Lily. The editorial noted that at the beginning of 2009 she was on "the well-worn path of celebrity offspring" and complimented her for branching out and tackling subjects other pop stars have not.
All in all this girl-come-woman has paved a strong road for herself and though some parts could be left out, she makes a great role model. The days of "girls cant say that!" are over, and where we fail to tell the truth about the less attractive things in life, she comes out, guns blazing and says it like it is.
xo-xo
1 comment:
Lily Allen is tops! I may be off base but I always liked how she was kinda a train wreck -- but she KNEW she was a train wreck.
Like if there's celeb news about any other lady getting trashed and winding up naked in a public fountain I'd frown and wish they would get themselves into rehab. But if it were Ms. Allen I'd know that she was just having fun with it. I'll look forward to her comeback!
I didn't know she was taking a break from making new music. :/ I guess she knows what she's doing.
PS - She shares a trait with The Man with the Golden Gun. That's right Wikipedia knows what I'ma talkin about!
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