Identify a Lily Allen song for me, please.

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I’m willing to admit that I’ve fallen way behind on my current pop music listening, mostly because I listen to a 60s/70s/80s station in the car and we haven’t been out to DJ-driven gay clubs or bars in a while, but I was recently visiting my hometown and spending quite a bit of time in the local gay bar, and have been hearing a song that I really like, but I can never catch the lyrics to so I can’t look it up that way.

I was talking to a friend Saturday night when the DJ played the song again and asked my friend who the singer was. He went to ask the DJ and came back to tell me that it was Lily Allen (a name I’ve heard but haven’t actually heard anything by, that I know of). Unfortunately, he didn’t ask the name of the song.

I tried to listen to snippets of her albums on Amazon to find it, but I don’t recognize anything as being that song.

The song is kind of bouncy (and I realize, having listened to some snippets of her other songs, that that description is completely inadequate to differentiate anything), and the refrain is kind of Doo. Doo. Doo. Doo didi dahdah dah-ah-aaah-ah. The first three notes there are kind of staccato, and the last “word” has a falling sequence of notes to it.

This is probably hopeless, but I have faith in the Dope!

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Your doos and didi’s sound like “Fuck You”

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You know, I actually skipped that one because the song sounded way too cheerful to have lyrics like that…

I’ll check it out after work. Thanks!

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“Fuck You” incorporates the tune of an old Carpenter’s song “Close to You”, but it’s actually an attack on George W. Bush. :smiley:

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Yep, that’s it! Just checked it out.

Thanks!

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Both of her albums are worth getting, IMO. Two songs I really like off her first album are LDN and Everything’s Just Wonderful. She also did a good cover of The Clash’s Straight to Hell.

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I do like what I’ve been hearing while searching for “Fuck You”. She kind of got lost in the British white-girl soul revival of a few years ago (she and Amy Winehouse and the Pipettes all came out with albums about the same time) and I’ve always kind of lumped them all in together.

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Interesting. This video uses a lot of the same footage as a video of another really good Lily Allen song called Smile.

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I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of the Lily Allen videos on YouTube are fan-made hodge-podges…I found about five official-looking videos (i.e., not random people doing random things with no relation to either Allen or the song) of that song and they were all different.