And bloGOD said let there be Lily Allen. Actually, with a little help from MySpace and DJ/Producer Mark Ronson, Lily Allen turned herself into an unlikely popstar. A hit in the UK and a hit with people with good taste in America, Lils was a rising star in 2006 and sure to be one of its brightest in 2007. Recently, on a promotional trip to Los Angeles, Ms Allen sat down to talk with us about everything from Woody Allen to her brother's mos flavorite New Mexican city. Actually, it was over the phone, but I was sitting and lettuce assume for shiz and gaggles that she was also seated. What, you don't bee leave me? Hear the Lady of Bestness herself udder this site's very name [audio]
Thigh Master: Hi Lily, this is The Thigh Master of Thighs Wide Shut.org
Lilly Allen: I know your website very well.
TM: You do?
LA: Yeah, when I
Google myself there’s quite a lot of Thighs Wide Shut business going on.
TM: Hopefully you weren’t thrown off by the name at first.
LA: No, I like it! It’s good. You talked about me very early on.
TM: I did. First I want to congratulate you on all your success back home and on this side of the pond.
LA: Thank you very much.
TM: We've all know about you since last April, listening to your demos, and you’re finally getting your album released in the United States here next month. How does that feel?
LA: Good, I guess. I dunno… it feels pretty much the same as it did in the UK. [Laughs] …it’s just another country. It’s exciting, but I don’t know how it’s going to go. We’ll see.
TM: Did you ever think that when you made those demos that you were going to make it this far?
LA: No, definitely not. I signed such a tiny deal with EMI in the UK that I thought that literally I’d get a couple of singles and that's it. To be honest with you, I didn’t even think I’d make music videos. So I definitely didn’t think I’d be coming this far.
TM: Speaking of your demos, I loved at the end of ‘Knock Em Out’, where you list all those nasty excuses, and I was wondering why you left off the ‘I’ve got AIDS’ bit.
LA: It’s not really particularly politically correct, I don’t think. [Laughs] That was the label’s decision, really. I didn’t see a problem with it, otherwise I wouldn’t have written it.
TM: I caught your first US appearance at the Hiro Ballroom in New York. I couldn’t have thought of a better locale for you to have your debut in the States. I thought you were fantastic, and I actually believe you made believers out of the non-believers. So what did you think of the performance that night?
LA: I was happy with it, but you know, I’m still really new to this thing, I only performed at my first ever gig in May.
TM: At
Yo-Yo?
LA: Yeah, exactly. It’s all relatively new and I was shitting myself, to a certain extent, b
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