All the play fightin', all the flirtatious disses

I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I don't care about clever I don't care about funny
I want loads of clothes and fuck loads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them

From glitter grunge to pretty and sophisticated, Lily Allen has flourished in front of my eyes. As a teen (or more truthfully just the other day) I've taken many many notes on how she looks, without realising I've recently been wearing glitter, jeweled lashes and converse with dresses - and thats just to the library! Yes I know, I'm late to the trend but SO WHAT? Her music makes me smile, lyrics of "London Town", makeups and the not so nice breakups, girls fighting over the mirror and fronting each other in clubs. Very down to earth lyrics without the preaching bit. Lily is very cool about being serious. From music to fashion she has gracefully changed her career focus, no drama just honesty - and all on the telly. No kerry katona/katy price moments THANK GOD. But I wouldn't expect any less than truthful and real of Lily.

Friday Night - The alternate reality part of my mind or as I like to call it casual daydreaming has been accompanied by this song many a time; walking round Leeds or on the bus this has been a song on repeat on my ipod. I'm not saying I could be the hard case girl in this song but god would I want to be! I've had a couple of moments (to name a few) where girls have fronted me up in clubs... hence why i stick to bars!!... and what I would give to have Lily stood next to me when that happens!

The music video for 22 is a favourite, pretty girls fighting for the mirror - those looking haggered, those immaculate and then there's me - not sure why i'm in the toilet because theres not much you can do but shake up your hair a bit and share a cubicle with your friend after a couple of wines. Balancing your drinks by the door, stumbling about checking your messages from that boy who is only keen on saturday nights and telling your friend "Yes you look really fit tonight, that girl he's with tonight is such a plane jane next to you... Tequila next then?"

Her cover of Womanizer... sorry Britney, Lily's sounds better. I've read there's no bad ground between them, they're fans of one another's music.. If only the press would leave Lily at that, I wish everyone would choose to ignore negative press about her. For me she's doing everything at the right time of her life and successfully at that. Wow I'm starting to sound like a psycho big fan, I don't usually rant on about how brilliant someone is... but we can make an exception for a Brit right?

More covers... The Kooks//Naive - very sweet and Keane - lovely job!


Littlest things lyrics.
Sometimes I find myself sittin' back and reminiscing
Especially when I have to watch other people kissin'
And I remember when you started callin' me your miss's
All the play fightin', all the flirtatious disses
I'd tell you sad stories about my childhood
I don't why I trusted you but I knew that I could
We'd spend the whole weekend lying in our own dirt
I was just so happy in your boxers and your t-shirt

I love with a capital L this song, I remember way back in 2007 when she first released it I'd put it on my ipod and hadn't really listened to the lyrics before the time I was sat on the train aimlessly staring out of the window... love struck and an emotional youth, I fell in love with this song. God I thought romances of the heart were supposed to be harder when you grew up, but I was 17 and my heart hurt a hundred times more! Thank god for Mum's, a cup of tea and a cuddle and she'd turn my life right back around :) What a star!

I've just written a paper on Chanel; Lily was once a Chanel "It" girl if you like.. I'm not going to go into why she was dropped but better focus on how much she pulled off the Audrey Hepburn look, that takes some doing. And flicking through pictures for this blog I've had thoughts about changing my hair again to her bombshell blonde look, OK FINE i'm not a bombshell but I might just have to let the hairdressers wack some extensions in and let the MAC girls at work see what they can do with me!

To summarize anyway guys and girls... this young woman is talented, I love her music and will make many efforts to pop into her new vintage shop when I'm in London in a couple of weeks. Remind yourself with a few classic songs below.

FiftysAtHeart xx