Lily Allen has a knack for composing clever pop tunes, and The Fear from her second album, 2009's
It's Not Me, It's You is one of her cleverest. The
album version is a pleasing mix of glimmering electropop meeting youthful world-weariness at the shallowness of celebrity culture, but I also appreciate this acoustic, slightly Bowdlerised version performed on Q TV in Canada, featuring just a piano and acoustic guitar for accompaniment. What it lacks in Allen swearing it makes up in simple unadorned directness.
I am a weapon of massive consumption
And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.
See also:
Music:
Split Enz - I Walk Away (1984)
Music:
Eg - Stay Home (1995)
Music:
Kenickie - Run Me Over (1998)
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