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Lily Allen slags off America
Posted: 23 Mar '07, 16:54
Lily Allen has been spouting off again, this time attacking America for being "backward".
Over in the States for last week's SXSW event, Allen was heard to remark: ""It's all very weird here. They're all backward in Texas but not as much as they are in Arkansas and Wyoming where I'm going soon."
There will be a time, in the not-so-distant future, where my offspring will listen wide-eyed as I regale them with tales of how I spent many an hour relaying Lily's musings to the good people of the internet.
Recognising the limitations of her own Englishness, the pop star continued:
"I can't really speak for the American population - I'm so far away from anything they are and stand for."
Three down, 47 to go. How many American states do YOU think Lily can manage to insult before this year is out? DiScuss.
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cant
someone put a muzzle on this bint?
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lol.
I think she's ace. 'They're all backward in Texas'.
Its great. Its better than the usual 'We just love it here. Everybody's so cool.'
Speaking her mind. Well done her.
On the other hand though, I don't really give a willy about her.
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she's right though
Point 1: the death penalty.
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Yeah but its totally generalising.
She's being stereotypical, and tarring them all with one brush, which is totally OOO.
Not. I love it when people generalise. Its great!
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'not as
backward as arkansas where i am going soon'???
the interviewer should have said 'are they all cunts like your old man'
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Ive never been to texas
but im happy to say that they're all overweight, bloodthirsty christian fanatics.
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Yeah, he should'ave.
Except it wouldent have been funny.
Or relevant.
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it wouldnt have
been funny or relevant...a bit like her old man then
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i wish our government executed people with the mental age of a child on a regular basis :(
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what
an utterly ridiculous thing to say
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I think I plan to say this everytime she opens her mouth but: You go girl.
Maybe it's all a marketing ploy to get misenthropes to buy her album.
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well
speaking as someone who's currently travelling around America (and Canada), she's half-wrong and half-right. No-one's saying there aren't strong "backwards" elements in any of those places (Arkansas is fucking weird), but don't generalise!
And if she's not speaking about the American people, what is she speaking about? The facilities? The wealth? That's like going to, I dunno, sub-Saharan African and saying "I hate them, they're all poor". Careful what you say, Lily. -
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anybody who generalises is a complete twat
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England
Fact is there's fuck all she's got to say for herself, and fuck all positive she's got to say about this country, so she travels the world complaining and bitching about everyone else's. I'll bet all of the 'backward' people are a million times more polite and honourable than the North London Scum she would call her own.
It makes me sad that we give her column inches, because everything about Lily Allan makes me hate my country. She encapsulates everything that is shit about the British music scene.
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I never believed people when they told me Lily Allen was edgy
but saying that people from Texas are backward?! And that Americans are dumb?! I need a lie down.
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I want to hear the rebuttal
'America slags off Lily Allen'
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hear goes
fuck off you chav bitch you'll never sell any records here and your dad is a twat just like you
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give up.
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wow
another amazing set of mismatched sentences from Ms Allen.
Next one will be: "God, I think Birmingham is so backward, they don't even have an underground"
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i c what you did there
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bf
"Recognising her the limitations of her own Englishness"
oh the irony.
(insert horrible sticking-tongue-out-colon-pee emoticon here)
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dear lily
i actually love you.
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She is right.
This is boring.
Don't know whether she is boring for saying it or whoever is responsible for this story is being boring by creating it. But either way...
Yawn.
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good night
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Look, her shitty record company
promoters her to gob off as much as possible to keep up the hype for what is actualyl a pretty lame, transparent little rich girl with a "celeb" dad trying her best to not be forgotten.
GO ON LILY, insult Madonna again. Yeah, she sucks. I'm much rather listen to "Smile" or that song you did with a FUCKING PUPPET FOR CHRIST'S SAKE that something shit like 'Get into the Groove' or 'Like a Prayer'.
Yeah Lily, God you're so hip and happening, what with your weird kooky fringe and the fact you wear trainers with ball gowns in a completely none-thought-out-staged way at all YOU TOTAL CUNT!
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I've been to Texas
People there wear cowboy hats and spurs without any sense or irony. They may well be backward, but they certainly are wierd.
But that 'eat half a ton of steak and you get it free' thing they have - genius.
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I think that
websites that report drivel like this are the real idiots in this whole sorry mess.
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That'll
crack America for her.
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so
all children then... Brilliant.
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To be fair
she probably just saw the Topgear does America program.
Fair conclusion to draw I'd say.
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I still am yet to watch that.
Can't wait.
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Oh it's gooood.
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Let's see
Idaho=Aryan Nation gun-toting methheads
Montana=cattle ranching absentee LA land barons
Utah=post-apocalyse worshipping Mormon prudes.Yeah, I think there's some mileage here, if Sufjan doesn't get there first...
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'Was heard to remark'
as in somebody overheard a private conversation?
If she'd said that to a journalist / in an interview then fair game. But really to report stuff like this and then accuse her of being a publicity whore would be rather disingenuous...
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Americans
Backwards?
Well, I never thought about that. Thanks for bringing up such a subject Lily.
PS. You are ace
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wow
An English person going overseas and slagging off the country they are in! Just like hordes of backpackers who come come to Oz and slag the place off at every opportunity. "We had that TV commercial years ago" "There are too many billboards" "That brand of cheese has a racist name" and "all people talk about here is rooting" are just a few of the quotes I've been privvy to.
I should point out that Ive also met some very polite backpackers who do not bag the place. -
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please please please...
Lily Allen for 'Though for the Day' on Radio 4.
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A cretin among cretin.
Not that I'm familiar with "journalistic" practice but some of you seem to be missing a point.
She might not be stating anything original/edgy but perhaps that's because she's been misquoted or taken completely
out of context to satisfy you tabloid fodder. I mean look how much of that article came from the horses mouth
(literally)..and presumably that came from an entire interview? I do still think she's an imbecile though. -
she knows nothing
I grew up in Texas and the people there are certainly not 'backward' - they are very kind, interested and generally really lovely people. A hell of a lot more welcoming and polite than the majority of the British population. It really p*sses me off the way people watch Deliverance or King of the Hill and think they can pass judgement on Americans - they didn't all vote for Bush.
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dick....
she's a dick aint she lol
no one cares lol
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muzzle
on the DIS CRAP MACHINE that seems to output at least two shite articles a day.
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pure class, sir
pure class :)
naturally, i agree with every word you typed above.
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It depends on
what you want from your pop stars.
Do you want premeditated platitudes about everything's great and the albums going well and everyone's been really friendly?
Or do you want some honest commentary about what the popstar really thinks about things?
Which is not to suggest that you need to agree with Lily Allen's comments, just that she's dammed if she spouts the normal publicity gumpf and damned if she doesn't.
DIS only exists as a forum for people to winge their tits off, anyway.
As for "generalisations"; well, 95% of all decent conversation depends on generalisations. If we had to make express carve outs for every exception present in structuring an argument or point of view, we'd spend all day doing that and no time down at the pub talking complete bollocks, which is the most fun.
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where you've gone wrong there
is calling this talentless peddler of background music to washing powder commercials a "pop star". The fact that her childlike, attention-seeking, bitch-for-the-sake-of-bitching ramblings actually get published on a website that is supposed to have some self-respect fills me with woe.
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Well, it's hard to argue
with someone who lobs into a debate with the prosaic gem about peddling "background music to washing powder commercials", but in the hope of extracting more literary spunk from you, I will.
It comes back to my point about generalisations. One man's popstar is another woman's jingle maker, or vice versa. So, we can spend an hour or two defining "pop star", which makes us look like contract lawyers on their day off, but ultimately, it's etymological gymnastics for which there is no first prize.
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I don't actually mean
prosaic when I said "prosaic gem". I just meant prose that was gem-like.
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