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Founded in 2003, MySpace forever changed how music was promoted. For the first time, artists had a way of sharing their music online with a direct link to their fans. It led to an explosion of creativity and major label deals, with artists going from nobodies to pop stars seemingly overnight.
Lily Allen was one such artist. Her words were jaded yet mischievous, painting stories of disappointing lovers, messy breakups and inexpert pickup artists, built on a foundation of reggae-pop, drum n’ bass and grime. By album two she was more than aware of the un-reality of pop stardom, and set out to bring it down from the inside. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “The Fear.”
#LilyAllen #00smusic #musicdocumentary
Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.
00:00 Introduction
00:56 The Early Years of Lily Allen
07:21 Alright, Still & Paparazzi Hell
12:54 "The Fear" & Modern Superficiality
19:49 The Enduring Legacy of Lily Allen
Bibliography
My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen, 2018, Blink Publishing
"Lily Allen on the making of The Fear: 'I was ahead of my time'" The Telegraph, May 2018 (youtube.com/watch?v=cwv5D3J-1Mc)
"Greg Kurstin: Producing Lily Allen" Joe Cellini, Apple Logic Studio, date unknown
"Pictures of lily" Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, May 2006
"Lily Allen: The Sound Of The (Garden) Suburbs" Jude Rogers, The Word, Jul 2006
"I got stuck in a K-Hole at a festival once" Tim Jonze, NME, Jul 2006
"Me, my dad and Dumbo" Chris Salmon, The Guardian, Sep 2006
"Lily Allen" Scott Plagenoef, Pitchfork, Nov 2006
"Lily Allen: An Interview" Jon Wilde, Uncut, Jan 2007
"Lily Allen" Lily Allen, Pitchfork, Apr 2007
"Digital Venuses: Lily Allen, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse" Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 2007
"Lily Allen Leaks Her Own Songs on the Internet" Shari Weiss, People, Apr 2008
"Lily Allen gets ‘Naughty’ on new album" NME, NME, Jul 2008
"Girl Gone Wild" uncredited, Papermag, Aug 2008
"Lily Allen: 'I'm not the show-off you think'" Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, Dec 2008
"Lily Allen: The Fear" Anna Pickard, The Guardian, Dec 2008
"Lily Allen: Talented, Troubled and Wallowing in Her Father's Footsteps" Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times" Jan 2009
"'People Think I'm an Attention Seeker, But I'm Just Honest'" James McMahon, NME, January 2009
"Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You" Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, Feb 2009
"Down with shoes, up with truth" Kitty Empire, The Guardian, Feb 2009
"Celebrity: Lily Allen" James Medd, GQ Australia, Feb 2009
"Greg Kurstin: Mister Fairy Dust" James Medd, The Word, Mar 2009
"Lily Allen wins paparazzi fight" Jane Stevenson, Jam.Canoe, Apr 2009
"Lily Allen: Wild Thing" Sylvia Patterson, Q Magazine, Apr 2009
"Lily Allen: social networker of the decade" Rosie Swash, The Observer, Nov 2009
"Olivia Rodrigo brings out Lily Allen to sing ‘F*** You’ in response to Supreme Court over Roe vs Wade" Annabel Nugent, Independent, Jun 2022
Soundtrack
Luar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present
Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
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Founded in 2003, MySpace forever changed how music was promoted. For the first time, artists had a way of sharing their music online with a direct link to their fans. It led to an explosion of creativity and major label deals, with artists going from nobodies to pop stars seemingly overnight.
Lily Allen was one such artist. Her words were jaded yet mischievous, painting stories of disappointing lovers, messy breakups and inexpert pickup artists, built on a foundation of reggae-pop, drum n’ bass and grime. By album two she was more than aware of the un-reality of pop stardom, and set out to bring it down from the inside. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “The Fear.”
#LilyAllen #00smusic #musicdocumentary
Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.
00:00 Introduction
00:56 The Early Years of Lily Allen
07:21 Alright, Still & Paparazzi Hell
12:54 "The Fear" & Modern Superficiality
19:49 The Enduring Legacy of Lily Allen
Bibliography
My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen, 2018, Blink Publishing
"Lily Allen on the making of The Fear: 'I was ahead of my time'" The Telegraph, May 2018 (youtube.com/watch?v=cwv5D3J-1Mc)
"Greg Kurstin: Producing Lily Allen" Joe Cellini, Apple Logic Studio, date unknown
"Pictures of lily" Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, May 2006
"Lily Allen: The Sound Of The (Garden) Suburbs" Jude Rogers, The Word, Jul 2006
"I got stuck in a K-Hole at a festival once" Tim Jonze, NME, Jul 2006
"Me, my dad and Dumbo" Chris Salmon, The Guardian, Sep 2006
"Lily Allen" Scott Plagenoef, Pitchfork, Nov 2006
"Lily Allen: An Interview" Jon Wilde, Uncut, Jan 2007
"Lily Allen" Lily Allen, Pitchfork, Apr 2007
"Digital Venuses: Lily Allen, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse" Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 2007
"Lily Allen Leaks Her Own Songs on the Internet" Shari Weiss, People, Apr 2008
"Lily Allen gets ‘Naughty’ on new album" NME, NME, Jul 2008
"Girl Gone Wild" uncredited, Papermag, Aug 2008
"Lily Allen: 'I'm not the show-off you think'" Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, Dec 2008
"Lily Allen: The Fear" Anna Pickard, The Guardian, Dec 2008
"Lily Allen: Talented, Troubled and Wallowing in Her Father's Footsteps" Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times" Jan 2009
"'People Think I'm an Attention Seeker, But I'm Just Honest'" James McMahon, NME, January 2009
"Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You" Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, Feb 2009
"Down with shoes, up with truth" Kitty Empire, The Guardian, Feb 2009
"Celebrity: Lily Allen" James Medd, GQ Australia, Feb 2009
"Greg Kurstin: Mister Fairy Dust" James Medd, The Word, Mar 2009
"Lily Allen wins paparazzi fight" Jane Stevenson, Jam.Canoe, Apr 2009
"Lily Allen: Wild Thing" Sylvia Patterson, Q Magazine, Apr 2009
"Lily Allen: social networker of the decade" Rosie Swash, The Observer, Nov 2009
"Olivia Rodrigo brings out Lily Allen to sing ‘F*** You’ in response to Supreme Court over Roe vs Wade" Annabel Nugent, Independent, Jun 2022
Soundtrack
Luar - Citrine (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present
Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
You can also follow me here:
Twitter: twitter.com/TrashTheory
Facebook: facebook.com/TrashTheoryYT
Or support me on Patreon:
patreon.com/TrashTheory
![Beauty and The Beast - Dealing with Adolescence 101 [Lessons Animation Taught Us]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r-8a7CuUORs/mqdefault.jpg "Beauty and The Beast - Dealing with Adolescence 101 [Lessons Animation Taught Us]
This video will be a slightly different format than usual. Blame Movies with Mikey and his Lessons Animation Taught Us series for that.
Animation teaches a lot. For many animation is a childs first introduction to cinema and teaches them key concepts that they will encounter throughout life. You learn a lot from the media you consume as a small child, and whether your lessons are beneficial or ruinous is based on what you are watching and what you can take from them. As such today, I will be talking about Beauty and the Beast and what my tiny self took from this film.
A lot of pre-Beast Disney perpetuates this idea that for every girl, one day their prince will come to save them. Whether they are Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or The Little Mermaid, theres very little in the way of agency from the protagonists point of view. Beauty and the Beast flips this idea, so that Belle is saving the Beast. “Shes the one to break the spell”. But heres the thing, I was about five when I first watched this. I didnt get the fairytale script flipping because I had no previous frame of reference, I just absorbed the “love will triumph over all” concept and kept that as a standard to live by for way too long.
Soundtrack:
The Prologue Piano Instrumental Cover - Jason Frisk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4NgiSCu7XY
Beauty and the Beast Piano Instrumental Cover - Jason Frisk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHqbP4F3jA
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