Top 20 Playlist for February 8, 2009

Friss Zene Top 20 for the week ending on Sunday, 02.8.09

Lily Allen takes the (cup)cake this time...

01. Lily Allen - The Fear (#1 for 1 week)
02. Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You (#1 for 1 week)
03. Eric Hutchinson - Rock & Roll
04. Katy Perry - Thinking Of You (#1 for 2 weeks)
05. Fall Out Boy - America's Suitehearts
06. The Fray - You Found Me
07. Leona Lewis - I Will Be
08. We The Kings - Secret Valentine
09. Beyonce - Halo
10. Katy Perry - Hot N' Cold
11. John Legend - Everybody Knows
12. The Saturdays - Issues (DEBUT)
13. Valencia - Free
14. Secondhand Serenade - Your Call
15. Ne-Yo - Mad (DEBUT)
16. Leona Lewis - Run (#1 for 1 week)
17. Craig David - Insomnia (DEBUT)
18. David Archuleta - A Little Too Not Over You
19. New Found Glory - Listen To Your Friends
20. The Veronicas - Untouched

Falling Off
Thriving Ivory - Angels On The Moon
30H!3 - Don't Trust Me
Erin McCarley - Love, Save The Empty

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I've been taken over by 'The Fear'

I am not a fan of Lily Allen.

That being said, I have fallen in aural love with her latest song, "The Fear". I love it so much, it has been on non-stop repeat on my iTunes player since my discovery yesterday. Released as the first single off her sophomore album, It's Not Me, It's You, the sassy Brit has really captured my attention with a very synth heavy, hypnotic beat and lyrics so profound and acerbic about the consequences of celebrity and wealth. It is delivered in such a blasé way -- what I usually dislike about Lily's music -- but it works so well here.

Lyrics:
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're trying to find them
And I'll take my clothes off and it will be shameless
'Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous
I'll look at the sun and I'll look in the mirror
I'm on the right track, yeah I'm on to a winner

I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
'Cause I'm being taken over by The Fear

Life's about film stars and less about mothers
It's all about fast cars and cussing each other
But it doesn't matter 'cause I'm packing plastic
And that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic
And I am a weapon of massive consumption
And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function
I'll look at the sun and I'll look in the mirror
I'm on the right track, yeah we're on to a winner

I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
'Cause I'm being taken over by The Fear

Forget about guns and forget ammunition
'Cause I'm killing 'em all on my own little mission
Now I'm not a saint, but I'm not a sinner
Now everything's cool as long as I'm getting thinner

I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
'Cause I'm being taken over by The Fear

In addition to amusing lyrics, the video is another highlight, in which Lily starts off in a trailer in the middle of a (presumably English) field and ends up in a elegant mansion full of cupcakes, dancing presents, and male servants skipping and gliding in unison.