Lily Allen name-checks pop divas on "Sheezus"

Our eyebrows shot up when we first heard the title track and opener to Lily Allen's upcoming "Sheezus" album last month, and now, the bait of the sarcastic pop anthem has been presented to the world at large with a colorful visual for her anti-pop wars takedown as the 28-year-old makes bid for "Sheezus" title, praises pop divas. The new album addresses a number of social issues, including sexism and misogyny in the music industry, and features Allen flaunting her trademark wit and acerbic lyricism.
Allen commented on the album: "I wanted the album to be called 'Sheezus' before I had a song with that title. The word inspired the song, and 'divas' rhymes with 'Sheezus.' I was really working backwards. Then I had to figure out a message. It starts off with me being quite scared about coming back. I'm really a sensitive person, and I take that on." Allen's at it again. The never-not-opinionated Brit takes aim at reigning pop queens: Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and even sweet little Lorde in the song's chorus, reserving high praise for the latter two. But what it all leads up to is Allen's bid to become a diva - "Sheezus," and with her forked-tongue wit, to remind listeners all of the above get periods.
While the song's lyrics could be considered disses to the artists, but as Allen explained to MTV News, "The idea of the song is the ridiculousness that there even is a Sheezus." Cast in that light, it's easier to get behind the song as a celebration of different styles of female power, not a take down of them. What she's really doing is admitting she's been away from the scene for awhile and acknowledging that the ridiculousness of the industry hype battles between female musicians she's returned to isn't going to be easy to beat. Nonetheless, no matter how awesome the other ladies are, she wants to be on top: "Second best will never cut it for the divas. Give me that crown b***h, I wanna be Sheezus."
Leave it to Allen to strike every major pop princesses nerves in all the right places! Aside from the punchy lyrics and catchy melody, the "Sheezus" video aking many prisoners with its witty rhymes, great beat, and ridiculous visuals. With a hilariously playful space vibe, the video features a bunch of Warholian Day-Glo Allens with animated scribbles while the psychedelic neon shades of Allen, looks like an Avatar extra, portrayed with certain illustrated cartoon-like features, like eyes made of gold glitter and scattered dashed lines across her face, under a space-age blacklight giving shout outs to other women in pop music.

Lily Allen goes for a wild ride in "Our Time"

Lily Allen goes on a long taxi ride in the music video for her newest catchy ditty "Our Time," the third official single, following "Hard Out Here" and "Air Balloon," to be lifted from the British singer-songwriter's upcoming third solo studio album "Sheezus," will finally hit shelves on May 5th through Regal Records; more than five years after her last collection "It's Not Me, It's You" in 2009. The artwork for "Sheezus" sees her sitting outside a stately home with her corgis, while the building is engraved with the Latin motto 'divide et impera' (divide and rule).
She's coming back to pop music in a big way. While Allen's "Hard Out Here" video was playfully skewered Robin Thicke's misogyny, her new single "Our Time" takes a page out of his VMAs twerking partner's playbook. The latest "Sheezus" track, celebrated with hot dog fights and flasks, is basically Allen's version of Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop," a girl-party jam that makes no apologies about getting drunk and high: "We will wear our drink til we lose our minds / Wanna lose sense of space and time / We're going through, it's how we do / Tonight we're taking over."
The satirical 3AM party anthem "Our Time," is more downtempo than previous releases and probably the best tune to be revealed from her eagerly awaited new album. The 28-year-old has been showcasing plenty of new material in recent months, including her addition towards the the popular "Girls" soundtrack. With a little over two months until the release of "Sheezus," the London singer reveals an equally entertaining video for "Our Time," which chronicles a booze-filed and drunken late-night in London through a familiar journey of grabbing food, getting into an argument and the long taxi ride home.
Directed by Christopher Sweeney, the boozy Lahndan-themed clip features a hilarious plot and shows Allen getting drunk and seeing triple with a number of different versions of herself in the back of a taxi cab, going for a wild ride, enjoying a night, performing the song, driving around the streets of London, and, at one point, wearing a hot dog costume and eventually getting into a fight with one of her doppelgangers. There's also some bonding, crying, passing out, stiffing a taxi driver, and stumbling home in the early hours of morning. And she's definitely on her worst behavior.

Lily Allen escaping reality in sunny "Air Balloon"

If you're looking for an escape from the endless winter, step right this way and let Lily Allen serve as your tour guide. The U.K. songstress experiences some equally surreal trips as in, she looks to be at one with the wildlife and hangs out with a zebra, straddles a cheetah and floats in space in a bizarre-but-really-fun video for her new sugar-sweet fun track "Air Balloon," the third single taken from Allen's upcoming third album, and serves as a follow up to her No.1 single "Somewhere Only We Know" and top 10 hit "Hard Out Here."
This tongue-in-cheek bubblegum pop tune is more of a loopy lullaby than a slice of social commentary with a nonchalant Allen singing, "Come meet me in the sky, I'll be waiting for you/ And we can't hear what they say/ Up in my air balloon, air balloon, air balloon." The sunny track, finds Allen singing about escaping reality over a toy piano arrangement, creaseless beat and offbeat Kurt Cobain shout-out partially from Swedish hitmaker Johann Shellback. The song has a distinctly summery vibe thanks to the outdoor setting and attire worn by the 28-year-old British star.

Speaking to Capital FM about the song, Allen said: "I suppose it's about escapism really, and daydreaming in a lot of ways. My husband is constantly infuriated with me, because he'll be talking to me when we're sitting down having dinner or something, and I'm looking at him, but I'm totally not paying any attention at all." The colorful number has that signature Allen "style" all of her songs have, a small dose of sarcasm. "If you thought the Bear and Hare was annoying, you won't want to watch this," the London singer also tweeted of the song, referring to her recent cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" for the John Lewis Christmas advert.
Filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, the That Go-directed video provides a perfect accompaniment to Allen's head-bobbing pop song with its snap-along beat. Allen doesn't actually take a ride in an air balloon, but the outspoken singer looking like a Coachella rave girl, is presented as a carefree hippy in the middle of an open grass field, singing the summery song, consists of rolling around in the wildlife and taking selfies with some local cheetahs, zebras and a few hippy people in vests. Soon, though, the singer is surrounded by giant magic mushrooms before floating through outer space with a huge crucifix.

Lily Allen returns with scathing "Hard Out Here"

Finally, Lily Allen is back after a four-year hiatus from music and at long last unveiled a new song and video. Her upcoming third album's first cut is the hilarious, yet realistic "Hard Out Here" takes the 28-year-old songstress into Auto-tuned, deeply sarcastic territory, as Allen tears into society's outlandish expectations for females. The Pop usurper's triumphant return takes crack shots at industry sexism and her video details the challenges faced by young women living in a post-Kardashian sex tape era.
Following the release of her cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" on last Sunday, Allen is properly back with this sweary, controversy-stirring ode to gender inequality. It seemed like an odd way for a pop star so used to over-sharing her own experiences into perfectly constructed, attitude-heavy pop to come back, which is where "Hard Out Here" comes in. Teased earlier via a Twitter Q&A that involved questions based on mistreated females from history, "Hard Out Here" is very much the opposite to the safe, pipe-and-slippers-sporting Keane cover.
A feminist anthem through and through, "Hard Out Here" tackles everything from tired gender roles and expectations to double standards regarding sex and appearance for men and women. Allen wears her classic wry smirk throughout the whole video, during which her manager tries to reinvent her as a champagne popping, e-cig smoking twerking machine. She sings sweetly over a typically jaunty piano-lead beat by way of a reintroduction, before the song rattles through a series of gender injustices that positions Allen at the forefront for change.
The Christopher Sweeney-directed visual is a scathing takedown of music industry sexism, involving a lot of ironic twerking and such a perfect fit for the song, as Allen throws major shade at the current pop culture. It starts with Allen undergoing liposuction wearing full makeup. Her male manager asks, "Jesus, how could somebody let themselves get like this". She defends herself saying “Um, I had two babies," but he and a doctor ignore her and continue talking about her as if she isn't there. Allen begins to mime and then jumps off the operating table. Then she removes her hospital gown and begins a synchronized dance routine with some female twerking dancers.

P!nk & Lily Allen have found their "True Love"

P!nk recognizing that despite his faults, she still loves her husband in the just premiered colorful video for her mid-tempo collaboration with British singer-songwriter Lily Allen, "True Love," a maddeningly catchy standout which serves as second promotional single and the fourth official single from P!nk's latest sixth studio album, "The Truth About Love." The track also marks Lily's first release since she "retired" in 2009. She is incorrectly credited as Lily Allen in the video title, despite changing her name to Lily Rose Cooper after her wedding.
The pop rock number takes its influences from summery 90s' pop jams is ode to realizing you have found your true love. It shows a softer, cuddlier side of the pop star, giving us a peek into her personal life, includes amusing lines about marital love and frustration like. The bittersweet ballad is about the ups and downs within a relationship as P!nk and Lily duetting with each taking a verse before they sing together on the chorus. Over a sunny beat, the track features such pithy, sharp-tongued lyrics. The 33-year-old singer says that the song is about her relationship with Carey Hart and she finds the song funny lyrically.
P!nk trades lyrics with Lily on this track, which finds the pair singing about the frustrations of falling in love. It was the first song that the artist formerly known as Lily Allen has appeared on under her new married name. The pair recorded their verses separately. "I met her for the first time after the song was recorded, but I'm a super fan of hers," P!nk told Capital FM. She added: "I just met her for the first time when she came and sang that song with me on VH1 Storytellers. It was very strange to meet someone for the first time on stage, but I think she's awesome - she's so sweet."
Directed by P!nk most likely, the accompanying clip, is that age-old conscript, and a melody of flashing and swirling colors, finds P!nk cavorting about with her motocross-racer husband and their 2-year-old daughter, Willow at home, follows the family as they travel with P!nk on her "The Truth About Love" world tour. It also features an old school goofy vibe, some flashy psychedelic colors, as P!nk sings about her frustration with her husband sometimes but also really loves him, too. While Lily is seen inexplicably whips up a veggie smoothie and angrily chopping up vegetables before popping them in a blender.

T-Pain Takes The Long Way Home At "5 O'Clock"

The auto-tune king T-Pain returns with a mid-tempo groove and wanders the streets alone in the music video for "5 O'clock," the first official single off his upcoming fourth studio installment, the heavily-delayed "rEVOLVEr," which has no release date but is expected to come out later this year. Like Adele's new video for "Someone Like You," the "5 O'Clock" video shows the 26-year-old artist meandering through the streets of a beautiful Amsterdam, including the famed Red Light District.
It's a pensive contemporary R&B ballad, with rumbling beats, pealing organs, and featuring Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa and a vocal sample from British singer Lily Allen's 2009 track "Who'd Have Known," T-Pain's laidback auto-tuned mid-tempo tune, is built around the dreamy, adult lullaby, finds the autotuned rapper king telling the story of a party animal promising his neglected girl he'll return home soon. T-Pain is apparently over the loony nuttiness that defined him five years ago, and is all on his "this song is serious!" tip with a heavy dose of Auto-Tune, and of those stripper windows in Amsterdam.
"The song is basically about me being where I am at a club. I'm just taking too long and Lily wants me to come home right now," T-Pain explained. "And it happens a lot with me in real life, so why not make a song about it? She doesn't care where I am or what I'm doing, she just wants me to come home. But she needs me, she needs her hubby." Directed by Erik White, the video's story is a literal interpretation of the track, T-Pain getting a text strolling on home as his girlfriend awaits.
It's a long, languid clip that matches Allen's musical bed, and features an emotional T-Pain strolling the late night streets solo, looking like he's about to cry, and struggling to get in contact with his music video girlfriend Allen, who isn't in the video and is represented by a close-up of a woman's mouth singing her oft-repeated part, and she looks distraught and worried about her R&B boo, texting T-Pain and glumly singing her sampled vocals as she waits on her love. Khalifa makes a guest appearance, with a confident, sexual verse that shows no qualms about showing up at your girlfriend's place at 5 AM.