In September, Lily Allen shut down her world-famous MySpace account (where she posts demos of new songs) and stopped social networking completely in December due to the abuse she was taking for being a foul-mouthed drunken tart. Around the same time, Allen announced she is considering a career in acting and that she will not renew her record contract. In her final blog, Allen wrote that she has “no plans” to make another record. “The days of me making money from recording music have been and gone as far as I’m concerned.”

by Mark Emge

“I ripped off the chorus from Take That and can’t be bothered with the paperwork,” Lily Allen wrote on her MySpace blog when she debuted the demo for her new single, “Who’d Have Known”. Allen later explained, “[Songwriter] Greg [Kurstin] just played the chords, and we were like, ‘That’s great, really hooky.’ Then when we played it back to someone, they pointed it out that it was, essentially, ‘Shine’.” Take That eventually allowed Allen to use the song on the album but turned down an offer to sing on it and do a video with her. So instead the video has Lily abducting Elton John.

by Mark Emge

British pop tart Lily Allen claims “22″, a song about a female character who’s all washed up at 30, wasn’t intended to make her more elderly listeners depressed. “It’s more about girls that haven’t figured out what they want to do with themselves,” she explains. “Especially really pretty girls. They can rely on their looks to an extent: people will pay for their dinners and drinks and they don’t really have to think. And then suddenly it hits them that they’re not doing anything with their lives, and it’s too late.”

by Mark Emge

The UK’s most famous topless sunbather, Lily Allen claims that her song “F*** You” is “not a direct attack at anyone. It was originally written about the BNP in the UK.” Certain lyrics and the song’s MySpace working titles (”Guess Who Batman” and “GWB”) seem a pretty good match for one George Walker Bush, newly unemployed 42nd president of the United States. But a provocateur of Allen’s aptitude is not going to let something like awkward timing get in the way of the chance to launch the first F-bomb song title onto mainstream pop charts any more than she’d allow her third nipple to shame her into wearing a shirt.

by Mark Emge

UK lightning rod Lily Allen has recently taken to channeling her charming frankness into environmental and social concerns. In addition to her support of PETA, War Child, and the homosexually afflicted, she records at Studio A, the only solar-powered studio in Europe. Lily has also been credited with helping inspire a parliamentary rebellion against Prime Minister Gordon Brown when she wrote members asking them to back an amendment to an energy bill. Similarly global-minded, “Not Fair” addresses that certain kind of boyfriend unwilling to reciprocate on the issue of oral pleasures.

by Mark Emge

UK lightning rod Lily Allen has recently taken to channeling her charming frankness into environmental and social concerns. In addition to her support of PETA and War Child, she records at Studio A, the only solar-powered studio in Europe. Lily has also been credited with helping inspire a parliamentary rebellion against Prime Minister Gordon Brown when she wrote members asking them to back an amendment to an energy bill. Similarly global-minded, “Not Fair” addresses that certain kind of boyfriend unwilling to reciprocate on the issue of oral pleasures.

by Mark Emge

The daughter of comedian Keith, Lily Allen began concentrating on songwriting in 2005 and set up a MySpace page (www.myspace.com/lilymusic) to post demos of her songs. Word spread, leading to tens of thousands of MySpace friends, airplay on BBC One, and a record deal for “Alright, Still” before the end of the year. Lily debuted songs from her sophomore collection on MySpace, as well: “The Fear” began as a demo titled “I Don’t Know”, until Swedish DJ/producer StoneBridge got hold of it.

by Mark Emge

The daughter of comedian Keith, Lily Allen began concentrating on songwriting in 2005 and set up a MySpace page (www.myspace.com/lilymusic) to post demos of her songs. Word spread, leading to tens of thousands of MySpace friends, airplay on BBC One, and a record deal for “Alright, Still” before the end of the year. Lily debuted songs from her upcoming sophomore collection on MySpace, as well: “The Fear” began as a demo titled “I Don’t Know”, until garage production duo Wideboys got hold of it.

by Mark Emge