Lily Allen. Oh Lily Rose Cooper, how I missed you so! First she teases us by releasing her John Lewis advert song, a cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" then she drops the second best song of her career ("Who'd Have Known" stiil reigns surpeme in my book) "Hard Out Here" or as I like to call it: The "Blurred Lines" Antithesis.
It's the Lily Allen we know in love: cynical, critical, honest, conversation starting and still catchy as fuck. She's one of the few artists who are putting Miley's new contrived image on blast and highlighting Robin Thicke's rapey "Blurred Lines" song (no matter how catchy the tune is, rape is still rape).
1.The large amount of Auto-Tune in the chorus
2.The objectification of women in the music industry (and as a whole)
3.Double Standards
Lily Allen leaves no stoned unturned!
Of course there are people who miss the entire message of the song and video and jump to silly and untrue conclusions, like how she's using the black women in the video to propel herself as some type of white saviour or how she's perpetuating all the messages she's against in the song with the video.
Lily can't help the way that she looks: she was born a Caucasian woman. Also, I don't think she had any stereotype in her mind when the concept of the video was brought up, like what another pop singer did earlier this year with her comeback single. The fact that Lily has to make a song like this is sad because we haven't moved past women being looked as pieces of meat rather than talented strong, intelligent equals. She wasn't lying when she said it was hard out here for a bitch...
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