Lily Allen's New Song 'Hard Out Here' Available 11/19; Watch Video!

By: Nov. 13, 2013
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At last!! Lily Allen has made a brand new solo track - "Hard Out Here" - and it will be available at all digital retailers on November 19. The track is the first new solo song from Lily since 2010.

"Hard Out Here" was written by Lily with long-time collaborator Greg Kurstin and was produced by Kurstin. Lily continues to work on her third studio album which will be released next year.

See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0CazRHB0so

Allen's debut record Alright, Still was well received, selling over 2.6 million copies worldwide and brought Allen a nomination at the Grammy Awards, BRIT Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. She began hosting her own talk-show, Lily Allen and Friends, on BBC Three. Her second studio album It's Not Me, It's You, saw a genre shift, having more of an electropop feel, rather than the ska and reggae influences of the first one. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and the Australian ARIA Charts and was well received by critics, noting the singer's musical evolution and maturity. It spawned the hit singles "The Fear" and "f You", popular mostly in Europe. Allen and Amy Winehouse have been credited with starting a process that led to the media-proclaimed "year of the women" in 2009 that has seen five female artists making music of "experimentalism and fearlessness" nominated for the Mercury Prize.

In 2009 Allen announced that she would be taking a hiatus from musical activities. During 2010, Allen opened a fashion rental shop "Lucy in Disguise" with her sister Sarah, followed by the 2011 launching of her own record label.



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