Lily Allen Covers The Clash

So Lily Allen is covering The Clash’s straight to hell. I’m of two minds of the whole thing. For one it’s cool cause it’s for an organization called War Child and War Child protects children in war zones. On the other hand though, straight to hell is a damn good clash song, quite possibly my favourite clash song. Now to have Lily Allen butcher it with her soulless quiver has left me a little conflicted. Charity is good, butchering a Clash song, not so good. If she did say a Kelly Osbourne song it would be more fitting (for her, not for War Child). Now I can already hear her fans murmur under their breath but honestly, she’s capitalizing on the watered down angst market. Her whole attitude thing just sounds flimsy. Her persona seems to deal in generally accepted issues that masquerade as controversial. Oooh, she’s outspoken, she’s got something to say. Yeah, (s)he’s a poseur with a poseur attitude who thinks her annoying diatribes that spout off some really obvious, watered down bull regarding topical events and redundant twenty-something coming of age dilemmas is somehow insightful. Ooooh, she’s doing her part for women’s rights. Why? Cause she’s unladylike…..seriousy? Who really believes that? Well she is an environmentalist, but who isn’t these days. As a listener I feel I’m kept at arms length for the whole song. I mean this is a brilliant Clash song. To have some 23 yr. old bratty poseur who eats chocolate in her videos pour her obnoxiously mouthy monotone into it is just a little annoying.

Watch Lily Allen butcher Straight to Hell!!