I've had it in my mind to do "regular features" to give my blog some structure before and it never quite worked out that way. That's more or less because I'm too lazy/forgetful to do anything with regularity. Anyhow, we'll give this a spin and see if it sticks.
Basically, I've always got a song in my head, so instead of keeping it there I'll just throw it up on the blog with a short write-up and if possibly a link.
Today's song: Everyone's At It by Lily Allen
Everyone's At It is either the first single of off Lily's forthcoming sophomore It's Not Me, It's You or the first track on the album. I had been under the impression and Lily had herself posted on her blog that it would be the first single. However, the NME is reporting that it's the first track off the album and that the first single will be "The Fear" aka "I Don't Know," which is another track that she has already posted to Myspace. Given my generally low opinion of the NME, I'm going to assume it's the lead single until I hear more definitively otherwise.
On to the song itself. It builds from silence into drums and sirens before Lily comes in spitting her typically acerbic couplets. The subject this time? Britain's drugs problem. Of course, Lily, noted boozer, is hardly the one to be calling for temperance and sensibility, which she is quick to point out. "I'm not trying to say I'm smelling of roses/but when will tire of sticking s*** up our noses?" It's essentially a call for sensibility and *gasp* accountability. "Why can't we all/all just be honest/admit to ourselves/that everyone's on it?" she fairly pleads. The lyrics are pure Lily: straightforward, no punches pulled, bluntly poetic. It's like a PSA, only highly melodic, and with sirens.
My opinion is that it's easily in the class of Lily's best songs like LDN and Everything's Just Wonderful. If this is what the future of Lily's music holds, the future is bright indeed.
Listen to it on Lily's myspace: myspace.com/lilymusic
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