Life's about film stars and less about mothers

Something I like at the moment: Lily Allen's It's Not Me, It's You. I'm fascinated by her lyrics and am thinking about featuring some of them on this here blog. She's sassy, she's smart, she's sarcastic, she's straight up.

Trying to figure out the lyrics to her song "The Fear". She makes a lot of good points in it, and I like how she admits to not being above it all-- she, like so many of us, have fallen into this trap because that's, as she says, how we're programmed to function. So what is the fear that she is talking about? The fear of being out of the loop? The fear of being forgotten?

The lyrics are as follows, interpret as you may. There are expletives, you have been warned, hope they don't offend.

She sings:

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 fuckloads of diamonds

I heard people die when they are 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 right on track yeah I'm onto 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 yout 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 onto a winner

Forget about guns and forget ammunition

Cause I'm killing them 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 yout think it will all become clear

Cause I'm being taken over by the fear.

On a somewhat unrelated note, what is it about her super cool British accent that makes her so much cooler? Wonder if that helped make her more popular on the US scene? Dunno, but I dig it.

To come, methinks: more fantastico lyrics from smart, awesomely poetic female singers who rock. Ingrid Michaelson, namely, and more Lily Allen fo sho.