UK charttopper Lily Allen tells NME about the outcome of her blog dis of Carl Barat and the Kooks.
“Libertines fans gave me a lot of shit, but I think they’re all obsessed with that band in a really dangerous way. I get hate mail all the time! I like it. I feel bad for my fans who send me nice messages because I tend to only reply to the really horrible ones. People are constantly being rude about me, especially after The Kooks and the Carl Barat thing.I like lots of indie bands. I’m a fan of good guitar music. I think it’s just that at the moment everyone’s like, ‘Music’s so great, we’ve got these great indie rock bands’ but in reality they all sound the same. They’re just doing what S Club 7 and Steps did – regurgitating the same songs because that’s what people are buying at the moment.”
Oh yeah? Well you’re regurgitating … uh … Professor Longhair!
Professor Longhair – “Big Chief” (MP3 Link Expired)
S Club 7, the nerve.
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S club 7? Is she nuts????
The thought of S Club 7 is the only thing that’s helping me recover from the photo of Adrienne Curry and Christopher Knight over on the side there.
but her comments are pretty spot on. dude wearing sun glasses inside playign the guitar self importantly ? UGHHHH
If she’s referring to Arctic Monkeys and WAS, I’m with her. But why shit on indie rock as a whole. Doug Marsch, Isaac Brock and Craig Finn, to pick a few, deserve a little more credit.
I somewhat agree, seeing as there are many an artist currently just doing the same old thing over and over. Not that there aren’t loads of agreat inventive artists out there, but a lot of them really do sound the same.
I think the problem nowadays is almost anything that came out or is coming out are considered indie rock when in fact it is not, much like the word “grunge” and “britpop”, any band that came out during that time were lumped under the same genre.
Indie rock is such a blanket term that it pretty much applies to anything at this point. It’s like “alternative”.
She’s spot on. I’m indie through and through, but there is so much sound-alike music in the indie arena these days. Alot of the indie bands have the musical chops and produce ok music – it’s pleasant enough and doesn’t affirmatively make you retch, but they really have nothing much to say.
She’s got a lot of lip for someone who produces dull music..
will she even get 15 minutes of fame?
I wish my family could buy a record career for me. Wait…is she like the UK music version of Tori Spelling? Not really hot, but somehow has all the connections?
Ha! I thought it was just me turning into a cranky old person. “What, are you kidding? They sound just like band xxxxx.”
I like Lily’s music – it’s catchy and fun!
Although it would have carried more credibility if it came from another, actually talented musician, it’s still relevant. A few months ago I heard the beginning hype of the Kooks with people talking about how they sounded like early Bob Dylan when he had just turned electric. I immediately went to check them out and found myself reminded of a previous realization that the neu-london “indie” music scene is a joke. The libertines were to the arctic monkeys what interpol was to the killers. Just generic rip offs somehow passing themselves off as the new IT sound. The kooks sound like a more whiney libertines. Surely England has some better bands…
What’s the saying? If you’re not indie by the time you leave high school, you’ve got no soul. But if you haven’t figured out that it’s all been done before by the time you leave college, you’ve got no brain…? Something like that.
Not like nobody hasn’t plundered Jamaican music or sung about ‘Larndahn’ before either but Lily has a great attitude, fun lyrics and, erm, a nice rack. I’ll take it.
Hating on the Kooks?? Has anyone heard “Ooh La”? For shame.
Ahaha, that comment is way too funny to even dis. Sure, indie rock is increasingly popular at the moement, but she’s a bit of a music snob for saying that indie music is no longer good, simply because its popular.
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Lily Allen’s music is fun. And despite her use of the word “all,” I think it’s clear she doesn’t mean that every indie artist sounds the same, just most of ‘em.
Besides, any opportunity to post “Big Chief” again is a good thing. Check out this version recorded live at Tipitina’s in 1978.
http://www.thepopview.com/mptres/big-chief-live.mp3
Lily Allen = Overrated
I think by “regurgitating” music she means music of their own. Kind of like the Strokes. They just put the same shit out over and over again with different words and maybe a change in pitch in Julian’s voice for a couple of songs. And I agree, it’s quite refreshing to hear Professor Longhair revived in sort of a way.
I think I like her now.
I like the Kooks and Lily! I think they’re both really good! However Razorlight…Johnny Borrel, good call! What a prick! Well I recently heard a cover of Naive by Lily Allen, so she can’t really dislike the Kooks that much! (Or maybe she just has a thing for Luke, don’t we all!) It was a really good cover actually! It was on some radio show or other, well worth checking out for a fan of either artist!
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The reason Libertines fans are obsessed is because there hasn’t been much good music since them.
Just look at the rubbish Lilly Allen has given us.
All i have to say about Lilly Allen is Chav me up buttercup!
alot of what they call indie in England sound the same. There is mainstream indie over there, at they all use the same formula. Its jus like how Hip Hop is over here.
I’d have to agree with her. Because even though i am a rock fan and i am starting a band around now i have to say that most of the rock music that comes around lately is rubbish, sad, but true, so that’s how it goes. Acctually the whole music industry is boring. Lily on the other hand did make a decent pop album so i’d have to praise her for that. R.e.m., Radiohead, Depeche Mode and The cranberries are the best rock music there is around. Yet i guess the cranberries have(not officialy) split.
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Yeah, make fun of good musicians when you’re a talentless bitch like Lily Allen. Come on. Lily Allen is a cocky annoying woman who produces terrible songs horribly known as “hip-hop”.
Indie music is, and always will be shit, barring a few greats like the Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and Black Grape, most of what is called indie is just rich boy rock, pseudo rebellion for the Dyeddy’s Manney generation, it is all dull, all sounds the same and all propogated by spoilt rich kids with their “attitude of ironic detachment” which, in normal English means snobbery. A lot of people state that modern indie sounds the same, too true, although to me that has been the status quo for some time now, since the heady days of Shitpop, the only difference now is the fact that it has all become so similar sounding to the point that it cannot be ignored any longer, even by die hard students, er, I mean indie fans.