Lily Allen

So from the context of if you were an artist, Knowing where the boundary lies with your storytelling and how much you want to share about vulnerable material that you could have in a song or be talking about in the context of an album.

See Lily Allen's most recent album as an example.

So yeah, it's really establishing a boundary between work and not work.

Your kind of work persona or your artist persona and your private life.

Irwin?

Last week, one of the big stories was Lily Allen cancelling her show here in Auckland.

No, I'm just kidding.

She said she'd come down with a virus.

But I always feel with those things that they hold out to the last minute in case they are okay.

I like to give them the benefit of the doubt that way.

But anyway, someone who flew up to Auckland, doesn't live in Auckland, flew up to Auckland to go to Lily Allen's show last week, landed in Auckland, found out the show was cancelled, and they're like, sucks, but we're here.

Let's go out for dinner in the Viaduct.

And I said, well, no, actually, it's more like a couple of thousand.

I know Ray, Snoop Dogg, Kate Nash, Lily Allen, they've all been speaking out about the imbalance.

I've spoken to a bunch of artists who have said, well, they use it as their business card.

They can see they're blowing up in cash.

And there's people performing at Spark Arena for a whole week.

Got Lily Allen, Zara Larsson.

Hilary Duff, 5 Seconds of Summer.

So we bought a caravan.

Thankfully, Yes forgave us.

And the Hilary Duff concert itself, amazing.

Next up was Lily Allen, except there was just one tiny problem.

By this point, a few days in a

Put something really funny on.

Put Lily Allen, fuck you.

Sorry, I didn't do that.

We're so professional.

like it.

You're playing Henry.

Lily Allen.

Fuck you.

Well, the hop on hop off bus that I was just talking about, that was brilliant.

So it took you to all of the main places, including the kind of historic shopping street and another great park, which was actually while I was there, Lily Allen was performing that day in a big festival at the park.

took you around the harbour and then later on i got onto the the boat which wasn't hop on and hop off but had a brilliant um tour guide speaking he was really good he gave a fascinating insight to the the complicated history of this you know um port-based city kind of an industrial heartland of sweden and we went past a tall building which is the tallest building in um Scandinavia.

It's kind of a twisty looking building and it's called the Karlatorne building.

If they were hearing what I've heard, I would describe it as a mixture of, like, electronic R&B, hip-hop fused with, like, a punkish soul.

Because, like, I think I have a lot of political themes and social commentary in my work, but then also I reference a lot of older tracks and kind of jazz and R&B, like Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, like even Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, just jazz bands.

because I sing jazz and old soul a lot for my job.

I work at Roppongi and I sing like 12 hours a week, just those songs.

I mean, it's just like in London, when you think about it, think about, like, all those people, like...

You know, Lily Allen and all these random white artists.

It was a thing like anywhere where there is...

Well, not anywhere, but especially in Toronto and London.