Lily Allen Music Videos: The Fear

This song is aimed at discussing the media and its influence on the public as well as suggesting celebrities can become more famous by taking their clothes off. She namedrops papers like The Sun and The Mirror as well as highlighting the stereotype that women should be skinny.

Lyrics:

I want to be rich and I want lots of money

I don't care about clever I don't care about funny

I want loads of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds

I heard people die while they are trying to find them

And I'll take my clothes off and it will be shameless

'Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous.

[Chorus:]

I'll look at the sun and I'll look in the mirror

I'm on the right track, yeah I'm on to a winner.

I don't know what's right and what's real anymore

And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore

And when do you think it will all become clear?

'Cause I'm being taking over by The Fear

Life's about film stars and less about mothers

It's all about fast cars and cussing each other

But it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic

And that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic

And I am a weapon of massive consumption

And it's not my fault it's how I'm programmed to function

[Chorus]

Forget about guns and forget ammunition

'Cause I'm killing them all on my own little mission

Now I'm not a saint but I'm not a sinner

Now everything's cool as long as I'm getting thinner

[Chorus]

Lily Allen Music Videos: Hard Out Here

Hard Out Here is a feminist song aimed at highlighting the objectification of women in the media and the pressure to look attractive by fitting into stereotypes. In the video Lily Allen uses a recent event where she went to a surgeon about liposuction but was told she should reshape her entire body. This video also shows her mocking Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines by creating phrases with balloons and dancing in front of them to mock Robin doing the same in his video.

Links:

"Nobody's immune to the pressure to look thin," she tells Observer Magazine. Shortly after giving birth to her first child, Allen, 28, visited a Harley Street surgeon for advice on liposuction, but was advised that she should reshape her entire body – thighs, belly, ankles, knees and back. "I walked out with lines drawn all over me," she recalls.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/17/lily-allen-hard-out-here

Both the video and the song's lyrics take aim at misogyny and sexism in modern pop culture. She takes a satirical swipe at Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines' video, in which a woman dances in front of the words 'Robin Thicke has a big dick', by dancing in front of inflatables spelling out 'Lily Allen has a baggy pussy'.

http://www.nme.com/news/lily-allen/73786

Lyrics:

I suppose I should tell you what this bitch is thinking

You'll find me in the studio and not in the kitchen

I won't be bragging 'bout my cars or talking 'bout my chains

Don't need to shake my ass for you 'cause I've got a brain

If I told you 'bout my sex life, you'd call me a slut

When boys be talking about their bitches, no one's making a fuss

There's a glass ceiling to break, uh-huh, there's money to make

And now it's time to speed it up 'cause I can't move at this pace

[Chorus:]

Sometimes it's hard to find the words to say

I'll go ahead and say them anyway

Forget your balls and grow a pair of tits

It's hard, it's hard, it's hard out here for a bitch

It's hard for a bitch (for a bitch) for a bitch,

It's hard

It's hard out here for a bitch

It's hard for a bitch (for a bitch) for a bitch,

It's hard

It's hard out here

If you're not a size six, then you're not good looking

Well, you better be rich, or be real good at cooking

You should probably lose some weight 'cause we can't see your bones

You should probably fix your face or you'll end up on your own

Don't you want to have somebody who objectifies you?

Have you thought about your butt? Who's gonna tear it in two?

We've never had it so good, uh-huh, we're out of the woods

And if you can't detect the sarcasm, you've misunderstood

[Chorus]

A bitch, a bitch, a bitch, bitch, bitch [4x]

Inequality promises that it's here to stay

Always trust the injustice 'cause it's not going away

Inequality promises that it's here to stay

Always trust the injustice 'cause it's not going away

[Chorus 2x]

Bitch

Gang of Four:

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/gang-of-four-post-punk-praxis/

http://www.notgreatmen.com/gof_l1.html

http://www.releaselyrics.com/129d/gang-of-four-a-hole-in-the-wallet/