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Lily Allen blames EMI for album delay

'I don't know what's going on' says the singer

August 18, 2008 | 9 Comments
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Lily Allen has blamed her record company, EMI, for the delay of the release of her forthcoming second album, tentatively titled 'Stuck On The Naughty Step'.

Allen recently completed work on the album, although writing on the Lily Allen MySpace blog, the London-based singer said she didn't know when she would be able to release it.

"The album – it has been finished for a while now," she wrote. "I don't really know what's going on with it.

"The record industry is a very political place at the moment and I am on EMI records, lots of people have been fired or have taken redundancy recently as the company was taken over by a private equity firm called Terra Firma.

"Many of these people were people assigned to my projects and now I don't quite know what's going on. I'm sure everyone will find their feet soon enough and I'll be able to put the album out soon."

A song destined for the album, 'Fuck You Very Much', recently leaked online. Listen to it by clicking on the video below.

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Comments (9)

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lipgloss

Aug 18, 2008

So EMI are responsible for Robbie Williams going on strike and now not releasing Lily Allens album... credit where credits due, i thought record companies were supposed to be evil!

lewi...

Aug 18, 2008

nobody to blame but herself.if she wasnt such a sell out and do that terrible show, we could have had it by now.

Soundedd

Aug 18, 2008

She needs to sort herself out, I don't think releasing songs called "Fuck You Very Much" is appropriate, lose the slag image Silly Allen.

hmd1987

Aug 19, 2008

I just registered to be an online member at NME in order to say that Lily Allen is a cunt.I will be checking into NME daily though now, seeing as how I'm sick of American-journalism mostly covering what you Brits call "shite".

jjbeeson

Aug 19, 2008

thank you oh thankyou EMIlegends .. =]

tamoratvr

Aug 19, 2008

ooh I just love a pair shaped girl with attitude.....been a bit skant on the work rate... then it must be those devils at emi... so tell me please where are those prerelease leaks over at katzdownloads or whatever?

interpolluter28

Aug 19, 2008

*Laughs at "Silly Allen"* Whoo! That's new.

randomgirl666

Aug 19, 2008

Oh dear. What is it about Lily Allen that brings all the idiots out to the comment boards? How hilarious that EMI's greed has cost people their jobs. Ho ho ho!