Australia, You Have Pleased Lily Allen

Lily Allen fans residing in this great country of ours should feel proud, because you’ve made the object of your musical affections a very happy lady.

From her latest blog entry on Le Spazz:

Australia Out
The Australian dates came on sale this morning and Brisbane and Melbourne sold out really quickly – didn’t even have time to add the second Melbourne date on here. So thank you. Hopefully this bodes well for more stuff in the future.

I think it’s safe to say this bodes very well indeed, Ms Allen.

This joyous MySpazz note to fans follows a blog entry where Lily is most definitely not in good spirits, and she’s taken the time to bang out a furious rant against the New York Times.

From a piece called “The New York Time are cheap skanks”:

So, something has been really bugging me and I have to get it off my chest. A few months ago Ambrosia my press agent and friend called me very excited saying the New York Times asked if they could do a piece about me for the cover of their Arts section. It goes without saying The New York Times is an incredibly prestigious publication , so of course we were all very excited at the prospect. The plan was that a NYT reporter would fly in from New York, hang out at my house for a little while do the bulk of the interview there, to make it feel more relaxed and then we’d go out for dinner after. The reporter could not have been more lovely, she was called Milena and she did indeed come over to the house, I showed her round, she helped me pick out my outfit ( an ISSA patterned all in one, louboutins, hoop earrings just in case you were wondering) . Then she got out her Dictaphone, we did an interview for an hour, hour and a half and then went out for dinner. We went to this restaurant called the Wolsley and ordered a bottle of wine Iwasn’t really drinking at the time , but I was having so much fun with Milena and I felt so relaxed and chilled I decided to let my barriers down a little. Anyway, we ate diner, I had Wiener Schnitzel she had Duck and we shared a pickled cucumber salad thing , some friends dropped by for a drink at the end of the meal , it was a lovely evening. I actually left Milena with my friend Louis in the end, as I had to go and meet someone else for another previously arranged dinner, I knew she was in London alone and she and Louis seemed to get along so I felt happy leaving her in his care. I gave Milena my email address and contact details and said if she thought of anything else she needed for her article all she need do is ask, and I bid them both farewell . Thinking back , I did feel a little awkward about her paying for dinner, but she insisted.

And that’s just the incredibly detailed opening to her story of betrayal and searing emotional pain. Seems that while Lily normally insists that publications photographing her for articles sign contracts guaranteeing they won’t sell the photos on to less reputable magazines, The New York Times assured her they would never do such a thing so her people didn’t make them sign a photo contract.

Cut to Lily discovering that OK Magazine have published a very Brenda Dickson-esque Welcome To My Home piece on Lily using made up words but with the photos from the NYT article which add authenticity to OK Magazine’s claims that Lily invited them into her abode.

I’m EXHAUSTED just recapping this debacle. I don’t know how Lily would have felt after having finished her online tirade. Go read the whole thing for yourself, and just feel grateful that your wonderful homeland is responsible for cheering her up after what must have been an undoubtedly excruciating week (perspective is for chumps, etc).

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