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Lily Allen turns trolls into marketing assistants
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 24 May 2018
Trolling celebrities on the internet is a serious artform. The trolls are all like, “You’re rubbish!” And the celebs are all like, “I’m gonna block you!” And then the trolls are like, “I won! I have transcended humanity and become God!” Although they have met their match with Lily Allen this week, despite them uncovering the shocking news that she has genitals.
“This photo will be on the internet forever Lils”, wrote one plucky Twitter user yesterday, posting a photo of Allen performing live without underwear.
Currently preparing to release her new album, ‘No Shame’, next month, Allen quickly spied a marketing opportunity, retweeting the message, adding: “LOOK AT MY 2014 NEATLY TRIMMED VAGINA, 3 HUMANS CAME OUT OF THERE. #NoShame June 8th”
Meanwhile, she has been further promoting that new album by talking about how the last one wasn’t very good.
“I think that the idea going into ‘Sheezus’ was really well-intentioned”, she tells Stereogum. “I think I was suffering from postnatal depression when I started writing it, and I think I was having an identity crisis, that I did not know I was a new mum. I felt like I needed to be a pop star to pay my bills, and I didn’t feel like that, so I did what I thought pop stars should do, and it was very wrong”.
It wasn’t only her struggling to balance being a pop star and a mother at that time, she reckons. “I think also the record industry doesn’t know how to deal with it”, she says. “It’s like, ‘Shit, those tits are for selling records with, not feeding children with’, you know? ‘What are we meant to do with those?'”
She continues: “I think the record industry is the boys club, and I think the boys club are OK with manipulating young women that don’t have any responsibilities. And maybe they feel slightly more guilty behaving that way when a woman’s got children, and their life is real, all of a sudden, you know? It’s OK to rip off a little crap that’s taking drugs and getting fucked up. But it’s not really that cool to do that to a young mum”.
Read the full Stereogum interview here.
