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Lily Allen “can’t imagine” doing a 20th anniversary tour for ‘Alright, Still’

B.Wilson20 min ago

Lily Allen has said she "can't imagine" doing a 20th anniversary tour for her debut album 'Alright, Still'.

Speaking on her podcast, which she hosts with Miquita Oliver, she said: "I do think maybe there is a conversation to be had about doing a 20 year anniversary tour of 'Alright, Still', but I can't even imagine though. That person singing those songs is a relative child.

"I just can't imagine being a 40-year-old woman and standing up on stage singing those songs with any conviction."

"What are you chatting about," asked Oliver. "What would you say to the Stones!"

"My voice is different," Allen reasons, before playfully singing a few lines from 'LDN'. "Like, I just can't even imagine." She however did add that she could "possibly connect with 'It's Not Me, It's You'," her second album, slightly more. "But I'll be 45," she said, joking: "I'll have had the facelift by then. I'll have the facelift, the boob job and the bum lift by then."

Upon the release of 'Alright, Still ', NME wrote that it contained "all the songs that made us fall for her in the first place – the Althea & Donna groove of 'Smile', the laugh-out-loud diss of 'Knock 'Em Out' and the rum-tale of the capital 'LDN'.

"If the pop dreams get slightly tarnished by the graffiti put-downs of 'Not Big' (her ex has a 'size problem') and 'Alfie' (her brother smokes too much dope) then that's not too worrying. With a personality this size, this isn't the last time you'll be hearing from her."

Elsewhere on the show, she discussed working with Burna Boy on 2018 track 'Heaven's Gate' after they connected on Twitter. "He just came to my studio at Tileyard," recalled Allen. "And guess who produced that song? Fred Again.. ."

Oliver also mentioned the 'Not Fair' singer's work with Jamie T , Dizzee Rascal , Common , Pink , Giggs , Stormzy , and Shy FX , saying she has always been "at the cutting edge of shit".

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