Sheezus by Lily Allen (2014)
Tracklist
I find this record to be Lily's weakest body of work, despite understand it's presentive irony. Releasing Life For Me over Look @ Me was a choice which to embodies the concept in question.
The album isn't horrible, but it's messy and off track. I feel like it wasn't just label interference (with the addition of Air Balloon via her label) but the choice of releasing songs about her (at the time) husband which came out corny.
The fact some of these songs are dated, or some didn't age well add to it's charming quality of being an ironic record of the present day standard of music. I wish we had more songs that were like Hard Out Here, Look @ Me, and title track whilst keeping a consitent balance with more personal tracks such as Take My Place, as I feel like it would have solidified it's intended objective. But anyway, here's my ideal vision for what this album could have been.