It's Not Me, It's You

Infobox Album
Name = It's Not Me, It's You
Type = studio
Artist = Lily Allen


Released = February 9, 2009
Recorded = 2008
Length =
Genre = Pop, electro pop
Label = Regal
Capitol (US)
Producer = Mark Ronson, Greg Kurstin
Writer =
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Last album = "Alright, Still"
(2006)
This album = "It's Not Me, It's You"
(2009)
Next album =
Misc = Singles
Name = It's Not Me, It's You
Type = studio
single 1 = Everyone's At It
single 1 date = January 2009
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"It's Not Me, It's You" is the title of Lily Allen's forthcoming second studio album.

Background

In April 2008, Allen announced that she was moving from ska to electropop on her upcoming record. [ [http://www.myspace.com/lilymusic Lily Allen My Space Page blog "Yagga Yo" 17 April, 2008] ]

According to "The Sunday Mirror", the album is nearly finished. Allen said of the album "I've worked so hard. My next album is nearly finished. I'm on a two-week break and then I'm starting a massive promotional tour." [ [http://www.nme.com/news/lily-allen/36700 Lily Allen close to completing second album | News | NME.COM ] ]

Digitalspy described her new artistic direction as more mature, more reflective and more electronic. [ [http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a94375/are-lily-allens-new-songs-any-good.html Music - The Sound - Are Lily Allen's new songs any good? - Digital Spy ] ]

Allen has posted three demos on her MySpace page. The first two to appear were "I Could Say" and "I Don't Know." Later, a third clip appeared, first titled "Guess Who Batman" but later changing to "Get Wit the Brogram." Allen wrote "this song is not a direct attack at anyone, it was originally written about the BNP in the UK but then I felt this issue has become relevant pretty much everywhere, we are the youth, we can make coolness for our future, its up to us. Go green and hate hate". [ [http://www.myspace.com/lilymusic MySpace.com - Lily Allen - LDN, UK - Pop / Hyphy / Ska - www.myspace.com/lilymusic ] ]

She has recorded most of "Stuck on the Naughty Step" in Los Angeles with producer Greg Kurstin of the band The Bird and the Bee. She says; "Greg builds the chords up and I just sing along and make up the words and then once you've got the bare song, we decide which way we're gonna go with the production."

In the July 10–24 issue of "Rolling Stone" magazine, the title was confirmed as "Stuck on the Naughty Step". Recently, Allen posted a song on her [http://www.myspace.com/lilymusic Myspace] called "Who'd of Known". She then said that it will not be featured on the album because she "ripped" the chorus from "Take That" and couldn't be bothered with the paperwork.

On August 19, 2008, it was revealed, that her album has been pushed back because of the people at her record label EMI. She is unsure when it will be on sale. [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4568162.ece]

On September 15, it was announced via her myspace blog that the album will be out February 9, 2009 [http://www.myspace.com/lilymusic]

On October 7 at the BMI Awards, it was announced, by Lily herself, that the album title has been changed from "Stuck on the Naughty Step" to "It's Not Me, It's You", due to the fact that Lily "lived with it for too long" and just got bored of it.

Singles

"Everyone's at It" has been confirmed to be the first single from "It's Not Me, It's You", and is to be released in January 2009. [ [http://www.newuksinglereleases.co.uk/ New UK Single Releases, New Music Releases, UK CD Single Releases ] ]

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