The Fear: How Lily Allen Took Down the Pop Machine From the Inside I New British Canon

Founded in 2003, MySpace forever changed how music was promoted. For the first time, artists had a way of sharing their music online with a direct link to their fans. It led to an explosion of creativity and major label deals, with artists going from nobodies to pop stars seemingly overnight.

Lily Allen was one such artist. Her words were jaded yet mischievous, painting stories of disappointing lovers, messy breakups and inexpert pickup artists, built on a foundation of reggae-pop, drum n’ bass and grime. By album two she was more than aware of the un-reality of pop stardom, and set out to bring it down from the inside. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “The Fear.”

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Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.

00:00 Introduction
00:56 The Early Years of Lily Allen
07:21 Alright, Still & Paparazzi Hell
12:54 "The Fear" & Modern Superficiality
19:49 The Enduring Legacy of Lily Allen

Bibliography
My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen, 2018, Blink Publishing
"Lily Allen on the making of The Fear: 'I was ahead of my time'" The Telegraph, May 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwv5D3J-1Mc)
"Greg Kurstin: Producing Lily Allen" Joe Cellini, Apple Logic Studio, date unknown
"Pictures of lily" Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, May 2006
"Lily Allen: The Sound Of The (Garden) Suburbs" Jude Rogers, The Word, Jul 2006
"I got stuck in a K-Hole at a festival once" Tim Jonze, NME, Jul 2006
"Me, my dad and Dumbo" Chris Salmon, The Guardian, Sep 2006
"Lily Allen" Scott Plagenoef, Pitchfork, Nov 2006
"Lily Allen: An Interview" Jon Wilde, Uncut, Jan 2007
"Lily Allen" Lily Allen, Pitchfork, Apr 2007
"Digital Venuses: Lily Allen, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse" Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 2007
"Lily Allen Leaks Her Own Songs on the Internet" Shari Weiss, People, Apr 2008
"Lily Allen gets ‘Naughty’ on new album" NME, NME, Jul 2008
"Girl Gone Wild" uncredited, Papermag, Aug 2008
"Lily Allen: 'I'm not the show-off you think'" Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, Dec 2008
"Lily Allen: The Fear" Anna Pickard, The Guardian, Dec 2008
"Lily Allen: Talented, Troubled and Wallowing in Her Father's Footsteps" Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times" Jan 2009
"'People Think I'm an Attention Seeker, But I'm Just Honest'" James McMahon, NME, January 2009
"Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You" Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, Feb 2009
"Down with shoes, up with truth" Kitty Empire, The Guardian, Feb 2009
"Celebrity: Lily Allen" James Medd, GQ Australia, Feb 2009
"Greg Kurstin: Mister Fairy Dust" James Medd, The Word, Mar 2009
"Lily Allen wins paparazzi fight" Jane Stevenson, Jam.Canoe, Apr 2009
"Lily Allen: Wild Thing" Sylvia Patterson, Q Magazine, Apr 2009
"Lily Allen: social networker of the decade" Rosie Swash, The Observer, Nov 2009
"Olivia Rodrigo brings out Lily Allen to sing ‘F*** You’ in response to Supreme Court over Roe vs Wade" Annabel Nugent, Independent, Jun 2022

Soundtrack
Luar - Citrine (https://soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present
Luar - Anchor (https://soundcloud.com/luarbeats)

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