Stream: Lily Allen, “22 (Big Pink Remix)”
- story Matthew Schnipper
In the video for the original version of “22,” a well made up Lily Allen continues to make herself up in the mirror at a club, and she sees back the older, grimmer version of herself. Which, honestly, isn’t all that grim. But the rougher version of her does look more like she’d be interested in this remix of the track by fellow Brits, industrial strength duo Big Pink. Their new drums sound like whips and the replaced guitar sounds like an alarm in Star Wars, like they’ve forcefully taken down the original. But Allen still sounds bubbly. Somehow, Lily Allen is not annoying. At all. It seems like she should be. Maybe it’s because she’s not ours—British people, is she inherently annoying to you?—but she just seems too charming to let her incessant good nature grate. She’s nearly 30 now, and she’s out every night she sings, and, maybe in the original it was demeaning, but as gruff as this remix sounds, Allen can’t fault a girl for trying. (via Stereogum)
Dollars To Pounds: In The Pink
- story THE FADER
Every Wednesday our UK columnist Sam Richards gives you the latest and greatest in British rock and pop.
Propelling pencils out, cartographers of cool. Just as in New York, London’s hipster consensus is drifting steadily eastward, lingering briefly last week in The Victoria pub in Mile End, where The Big Pink launched their debut single, “Too Young To Love”/‘Crystal Visions’ on the all-new House Anxiety label (“Another way to lose money,” smiled its founders on the way in). Beneath a pair of giant antlers and letters politely spelling the word “Riot,” Klaxons and the Cocadisco crew manned the decks, while mingling in the crowd were most of TV On The Radio, at least one Mystery Jet, Mark Ronson and his Likelady, and almost every vaguely plugged-in music hack, DJ, club promoter and indie scenester in London.
