Americans Hate Tingle: She was an international pop superstar all over the world in the mid-00s to early-10s... except North America. In Europe, Asia, and Australia, she's performed in massive venues and has frequently toured those areas. In the U.S., her tours are brief and she's often relegated to small clubs. The funny thing is, there's a pretty good chance that people in America have heard about her, just not know a whole lot about her other than being a British pop star. As of late, her only claim-to-fame stateside is being the sister of actor Alfie Allen and cousin of Sam Smith, both of whom are better known than her.
Harsher in Hindsight: "Smile" is about getting revenge on her cheating ex. She later revealed in her memoir that she cheated on her husband with multiple people while on tour.
Heartwarming Moments: In an odd way, "Alfie", a song about her teenage loser brother. It may come of as mean and shaming, but she really did just want to do something that would get him off the couch and do something with his life, and it certainly seems to have worked.
This seems to be a common view of her cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know", particularly in the context of the TV ad for which it was recorded. She takes the original’s sort of melancholic and slightly bittersweet tone and turns it into something completely and utterly sweet.
From "Alfie": "You need to get a job because the bills need to get paid!" He did. On one of the most popular show of the new tens, Game of Thrones.
One of her lines in "Alfie" is "How do you ever expect that you'll get laid?" His character on the show certainly won't be, because his penis got cut off when his character was tortured by a psycho villain.
Moment of Awesome: The entirety of "Hard Out Here", where she criticizes 21st-century portrayals of women and misogyny.
Suspiciously Similar Song: Quite a few Filipino fans saw some similarities between "Fuck You" and the theme song of the early 90s educational show Sineskwela.
Tear Jerker: A fair about of her stuff can be rather raw and emotional.
On Alright Still we have "Littlest Things" about not being able to shake memories of better times.
On It's Not Me It's You we have "Chinese" about Lily wanting desperately to be with her mother after long weeks on tour, and to just do the little mundane things with her; "I Could Say" a song about the emotional fallout and the feeling of age that comes with ending a relationship.
On Sheezus, "Take My Place" which deals with grief about her miscarriage.
"Life For Me" where she must face the emotional trials of starting a family and no longer leading her party girl lifestyle, the point is pushed harder with out she must constantly remind herself this is what she wants.
A bonus track, "Miserable Without Your Love", in which she laments that despite how much she has, she'd give it up to have an ex back.
of the early 90s educational show Sineskwela.