Lily Allen To Say ‘Hello’ To Afghanistan
‘The Fear’ singer’s non-career activities have been the subject of extensive press coverage in both in the tabloid and mainstream media. In 2006 and 2007 Lily Allen made comments critical of other musicians. 2008 saw public incidents that were described as rude, embarrassing or alcohol-fuelled. Allen used her MySpace blog to criticize press coverage and defend and criticize her own behaviour.
Now, she worries that her pop star life is meaningless and quite empty, so she has decided to visit the war-torn country Afghanistan to do some charity work and see how her donations have helped children in the region.
She told Q Radio host Samanthi: “I sometimes feel like my life is a bit empty - as ridiculous as that sounds to some people, a bit vacuous. It is pop music and people do talk about it too much and sometimes I feel like I want to have a bit more substance in my life.”
“I am going to be going to Afghanistan or the Congo in a few weeks to help War Child. They want me to go there and see how the money I have earned for them in the past is being used. And that is the stuff I get really excited about.”
The 24-year-old star has also said she finds it impossible to listen to her award-winning debut album ‘Alright, Still’: “When I listen to that record I cringe. I am five years younger on that record. I can’t bear listening to it.”
The singer best known for her songs ‘Smile’ and ‘LDN’ and their Mockney style, also spoke out about the row surrounding ‘Everybody’s At It‘ – a track from her new album, ‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’, which tackles drug use in Britain - insisting people have misunderstood its meaning. She explained: “It’s not encouraging drug taking at all, in fact it says that drugs are bad, because they are bad. It’s opening up a debate really and sort of saying and no not everyone takes drugs ends up killing people or dying.” This album is scheduled for release on 9 February 2009 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States.
‘The Fear‘, the first single from album will was released digitally on 9 December, 2008 and will be released 26 January, 2009. The video for the single was released 4 December and three weeks before its release the single was in top 20 on Nielsen Music Control’s U.K. Radio Airplay.
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