It's Not Me, It's You

This article concludes the two part special on Lily Allen.

With It's Not Me, It's You, Lily Allen's music took a slightly darker and more serious tone. It also feels more like it is for adults. Each track is very full sounding and has meaning, some personal, some political, some religious.

The album's singles, "The Fear", "Not Fair", "Fuck You", "22", and "Who'd Have Known" are undoubtedly the best tracks on the album of course. All of them fared well commercially too, especially "The Fear" and "Not Fair" which peaked at #1 and #4 in the UK respectively. My favorite of these would have to be "Not Fair", mostly because lyrically it is genius and it has a sort of country pop feel, much like Madonna's "Don't Tell Me". In fact, the album owes a lot of it's greatness to the lyrics of the songs which are brilliant.

The backing tracks on the album are many, but there are a select few that stand out: "Everyone's At It", "Him", "I Could Say", and "Back To The Start". "Back To The Start" was so good, in fact, that it was released as a sixth single in Australia.

It's Not Me, It's You once again shows us Lily's great talent in the lyrics department, but brings out a wider range of emotions than she did with Alright, Still. This album is definitely one of the best to be released in 2009, even better than Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster. It's one of the best pop albums to come out in a very long time.