Friday, 21 August 2009

Out of Touch Lily


Lily Allen likes complaining, in her last song 'Not Fair' she was complaining about finding a great boyfriend who was perfect only for him to turn out to be a 3 minute man, the rest of the time she's complaining about men who are great in bed but absolute bastards out of it. Now in her current song 22 she is complaing about the predicament of young women in 21 st century life. The gist of the song is about a woman (lily) who spends her life having a great time shagging and partying at the age of 22, but hen regretting it at the age of 30, because she's in a dead end job, lonely, looking past it and getting one night stands when she really now wants to settle down. My issue with this is that Lily is about 10 years too late, Sex and the City change the image of 30 something singles back in the late 90's they were happy to be still be partying, having one night stands without desperately seeking 'the one to settle down with'. The average age of women getting married in the UK is now 33.6 and later for those living in London the truth is leisure activities prioritises don't really change that much between 22 and 32 so my advice would be don't worry about problems of turning 30 in this day of age it no longer matters.

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