“"I might not write a very good second album. The thing to do is not take yourself so seriously. The moment when you sort of start to believe all that stuff is when you get in trouble." That's Lily Allen talking to this website in November 2006. At that point, her MySpace clarion of a debut, *Alright, Still*, was four months into what would become a 17-month stint on the UK's album chart. With her ”
“Lily Allen isn’t just a pop star. She’s a genre. Allen’s fizzy, fiercely attitudinal 2007 debut, Alright, Still, sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide, made the 23-year-old Londoner one of Britain’s tabloid fixtures and spawned an industry of Lily wanna-be’s — seemingly every month, the U.K. record business disgorges a new songstress with a […]”