The Onion says Lily Allen’s music is awesome.

Lily Allen is one of those people whose music I never ever thought I’d like.

Whilst often being crude, filled with profanities and containing themes of cruelty and vengeance, there’s something about her songs which manage to infect me with a bounce-foot head-nod type of feeling.

To tell you the truth, the whole reason why I’ve fell in love with Allen’s music is because of the fact that her songs are, indeed, quite blunt.

Take her latest album, ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You‘.

Not only are her songs filled with satire and sarcasm,  but, likewise, there’s a certain package of bittersweet reality hidden behind the bouncy beats and light-hearted voice Allen has.

For example, the song ‘Him’ — a sarcastic song about God,  interspersed with a serious chorus featuring September the 11th — is filled with lyrics about Allen’s wonderings on whether God “has ever been done for tax evasion” or whether God’s “favourite type of human is Caucasian”.  For agnostics like myself, the lyrics are as much humerous as they are thought-provoking.

Likewise, the opening song of the album, ‘Everyone’s At It’, focuses largely around abuse of medicinal and illegal drugs like Prozac, sleeping pills and crack cocaine.  Lyrics like, “From grown politicians to young adolescents, prescribing themselves antidepressants” and “So you’ve got a prescription, and that makes it legal?” are just small examples of how Allen manages to emphasise societal problems without ever seeming to actually mention them.

While some of the songs are perhaps a little stronger in nature, (‘Fuck you’ and ‘Not Fair’ being the strongest songs, in my opinion), it’s these songs which manage to counter-balance the almost frivolous nature of her music.  Without the darker, stronger emotions broiling within some of her lyrics, it would be very easy to assume that Allen’s music is nothing more than the common manufactured trash that floats about the music industry frequently these days.

But thankfully I can shout a NO to that assumption.  While sometimes the instrumental can be a little synthetic, when considered against the wonderful [and sometimes very strong] lyrics?  It’s not a contest.  At ALL.

Her music is sarcastically sinful.  And as I’m agnostic, that just aint a problem.

Your music is awesome, Lily, just awesome.

-Onion