Sheezus
Name-checking a host of other female pop stars, Lily Allen opens her third album with a plainspoken demand: “Gimme that crown… I wanna be Sheezus.” The charts would have a lot more moxie under Allen’s reign—*Sheezus* is brimming with sarcastic one-liners and quick-witted feminist jabs. Produced largely by GRAMMY®-winning songwriter Greg Kurstin (Foster the People, Ellie Goulding), Allen’s songs can be playfully sweet (the sweeping “Air Balloon” and the bubbling “L8 CMMR”), sardonic (the midtempo highlight “Our Time”), or downright salty (the anti-misogyny tirade of “Hard out Here”). But it’s the songwriter’s whip-smart intelligence that gives the big hooks of *Sheezus* lasting substance.
Lily Allen possesses a terrific flair for irony, but there's a fine line between using irony to make a cutting point and using it as a protective coating to hide the fact that you're not sure exactly what you're trying to say. She was once a master of the former, but her new album, Sheezus, is another story.
Comebacks are often ego trips, but few are sadly quite so brazen as Allen’s return.
A friend of mine referred to Lily Allen's music, not as music, but as "comments."
At her best, Lily Allen operates just at the edge of a crowd, slyly and snidely passing judgment from a safe distance.
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Lily Allen's brazen attitude and candid persona have become constant fodder for headlines and with her latest arsenal of songs on her third album, Sheezus, you can expect the ink won't dry any time soon.
Album review: Lily Allen - 'Sheezus'. The singer's third album often gets lost down its own self-ironic rabbit-hole...
<p>It's far from terrible – indeed, in parts it's very sharp – but there's still something a bit tentative about Lily Allen's comeback record, writes <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong></p>
British pop's wittiest star delivers more laugh-out-loud tracks on her latest album, says Neil McCormick
The smart-mouthed third album from a straight-talking girl-pop princess. Review by Thomas H Green.