After arriving back on the music scene in late 2013, Lily Allen is picking up where she left off by launching into a verbal attack on her contemporaries.
Speaking to Esquire, Allen spoke of her disappointment with the pop music industry, saying: “I feel like when I was growing up and dreaming of being a pop star, it was the days of Britpop when things felt authentic and anarchic and people were taking drugs and having a lot of fun and having sex with each other. So excuse me if I found it a bit disappointing when I arrived and it was a bunch of sterile fucking Botoxed idiots that stank of desperation.”
She continued: “I thought the people in that showbiz circle were my friends. But almost the second I got pregnant and I wasn’t able to go out and party, they were suddenly quite nasty. There’s a way that those people survive and it’s not by being nice. The way they make themselves feel powerful is to ostracise other people.” She added that she was made to feel like a “little bullied girl at school”.
Speaking of her decision to briefly “retire” from music in 2010, she said: I’d had enough of people constantly hacking at me and I think once you’re exhausted physically and mentally, it does get you down. It can feel pretty shit when you walk into a room full of people and you can feel the eyes looking at you and people laughing.”
Lily Allen reached number 9 in the UK charts with her comeback single ‘Hard Out Here’, the video of which parodies both Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus. You can watch it by clicking here.
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