Celebrity Crush Case #2: Lily Allen

First off, I informed a handful of people about this blog and told them I'd be updating "every day" and then the day after I said this...I stopped updating everyday. Don't let that deter you from checking this often though! I was all over the place this last weekend and didn't really have the time to ego trip and share my thoughts and opinion with you all. Now that that's past, lets move on shall we?

I'm pretty enamored with English culture and because of that I have a real thing for English chicks. The attitudes, the styles and...of course, the accents. I could meet an English lady and she could be some screeching bitch with a batshit level of insanity and I'd be so charmed with her that I wouldn't even notice.


Around 2006, I came across Lily Allen's video for "LDN" and that's when my crush began. I checked out her record, a fun ska pop album, shortly after and grew a real thing for her. She was spunky, cute, bratty (but not bitchy), intellectual, and self-aware. And yeah, the British thing was a definite plus too. I followed her a lot after that and we had a real good thing going on.

Well, sometime after her first album hit the US and she started to get some real fame-things began to change between us. She dyed her hair blond, started hanging out with Lindsay Lohan, and focused more on being a crackhead socialite than making good music. Then, her second album hit. All the ska from the first album was replace with electro-pop which wasn't necessarily a bad thing but the album somehow managed to do away with all the good will I had left for her. The songs wreaked of a higher social purpose as her idol complex kicked in and all the intellect and self-awareness I pegged her for before was gone when her social criticisms offered nothing more than shallow, immature observations.

Regardless, my relationship with Lily Allen wasn't over. I'd see clips and pictures of her around and read an interview or two with her and I couldn't help but renew my love. As far as celebrity crushes go, Lily Allen is the girl that is completely wrong for me yet I keep coming back time and time again. It's a doomed relationship but I can't help but stick around.