Her single “Smile” reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006. Her album ”Alright, Still” was nominated at the BRIT Awards in 2007, as well as at the 50th Grammy Awards for “Best Alternative Music Album” in 2008. This album by now has sold 3.3 million copies all over the world.
有“英國天才女歌手”之稱的莉莉?艾倫 (Lily Allen) 是英國喜劇演員基思?艾倫 (Keith Allen) 的女兒，極具音樂天賦的莉莉?艾倫 (Lily Allen) 2006年夏天正式進軍Pop Music流行歌壇，首張專輯《Alright still》佳評如潮，《Smile》、《Littlest Things》、《LDN》等歌曲成為莉莉?艾倫 (Lily Allen) 的代表曲。莉莉?艾倫 (Lily Allen) 自己寫詞，能夠熟練運用不同音樂元素，從 POP，HIP-HOP，到 DANCE 等，都是她的拿手好戲。在眾多的音樂媒體眼中，莉莉?艾倫 (Lily Allen) 看起來將是下壹位最有實力的英國女歌手。
Hailed as “Talented British Female Artist”, Lily Allen is the daughter of British comedy actor Keith Allen; with her great musical talent, Lily Allen officially began her pop music career in the summer of 2006. Her first album “Alright, Still” was well received in the market, ‘Smile’, ‘Little Things’, ‘LDN’, had become her signature songs. Lily Allen wrote the lyrics herself and worked proficiently with many musical elements, she is a dab hand at working from POP, HIP-HOP to DANCE. In the eyes of many musical medias, Lily Allen looks like the next best British female artist.
莉莉?艾倫 (Lily Allen) 的火辣尖銳，還不僅於音樂創作，就連歌壇大姐大麥當娜 (Madonna) ，也成為她炮轟譏笑的對象。在接受GQ雜誌訪談時，莉莉?艾倫 (Lily Allen) 批評麥當娜是「史上最被高估、名不符實的流行歌手。」就連之後她上電臺節目時，也拒絕為這句話道歉，莉莉?艾倫 (Lily Allen) 更解釋說：「我不覺得光憑這句話，就可以斷定我是個攻擊性強的人。」「我只是回答問題罷了！」
Lily Allen's fiery and sharp nature exemplified not only by her musical creations, even Madonna has also become her pounding and taunting subject. When interviewed by GQ magazine, she criticized Madonna as “The most overrated pop singer who does not deserve the name”; and she refused to apologize for the remark later when she was on a radio program. Lily Allen explained, ”I don’t think that just based on these words, I can be judged as an aggressive person. I was just answering a question!”
問題補充：
在聽似跳躍快樂的節奏旋律裏，莉莉艾倫將她的筆觸擴及諸多議題，包括：諷刺上流社會中、狗仔傳媒與名人間交互消費的首支單曲〈The Fear〉，大賞種族主義與性別保守者兩大耳光的爆笑作品〈Fuck You〉，大書特書社會黑暗現實與性別失衡的作品〈22〉、火辣直言毒品「普及」各世代的作品〈Everyone?s At It〉
Within the leaping and happy rhythmic melodies, Lily Allen's lyrics had touched on many topics: <The Fear> is the first single that satirizes the mutual expenses between the paparazzi and celebrities in the upper class society; the comical <Fuck You> that gives racism and sexual conservatives a slap in the face; and the fiery song <Everyone’s At It> which categorically states that drugs are popular among all generations…..