Lilly Allen? Lilly Rose Cooper
Lilly Allen told BBC's Test Match Special (according to contact) "Maybe I'll be Lily Rose Cooper, the country artist… When I do go to gigs I get a slight pang of envy and think, 'Oh I do miss being up on that stage.' But I have other priorities at the moment."
Let's guess she is joking a bit but let's also guess the urge to perform is coming back.
Lilly, although a child of myspace, is also a child of Amy, because Amy helped her get the language of pop, or the new language of pop, right.
Both Lily's albums are studied of repressed feminism outburst, of playing with the big boys, of taking pop for women and moving it somewhere else. And, more importantly, they are both very well written.
And then Lily couldn't take it any more and left the scene.
Like I said, the country line was a joke but within the real life scenarios of Lilly's gift it has the sense of a self-explanation. There is almost a tragic undercurrent to everything that happens to Lily, a tackling with success, an over sharing, a burden of fame and flame out limit to her and that makes her seem like a Nashville star: just a break down away. And no, not drugs, more a n emotional fuselage, a combustible heart.
Come back to us, Lily!
