Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English pop music singer and songwriter. Known for her songs "Smile", "LDN", her cover of "Oh My God" by British act The Kaiser Chiefs, "The Fear", "Fuck You", "Not Fair" and her Mockney style, Allen is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. From 12 February 2008 Allen hosted the BBC Three talk show Lily Allen and Friends.[2]
Allen's first single, "Smile", reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006.[3] In December 2006, her debut album Alright, Still was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag.[4] In 2007, it was nominated for the award of Best British Album at the BRIT Awards and for Best New Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The album was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of "Best Alternative Music Album."[5] Alright, Still has sold over 2,600,000 copies worldwide.
Allen's second album, It's Not Me, It's You, was released in the UK on 9 February 2009 and the United States on 10 February 2009.[6] The album debuted at number 1 in Australia and the UK,[7] while the first single from the album "The Fear" was number 1 in its first four weeks on the charts.[8] In the United States the album debuted at the number 5 position.[9]
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 long" nominated for the Mercury Prize.[10]
FASHION
In May 2007, Allen launched a line of dresses, shoes, and accessories entitled Lily Loves.[142]
Allen is reported to enjoy a "special relationship" with Chanel that is said to include borrowing clothes and jewellery and being flown in to sit in the front row of their shows.[143]. Karl Lagerfeld, the head designer for the company personally hired and photographed Allen for a campaign to promote a luxury line of handbags due to launch in September 2009.[144][145]
Allen won the 2008 Glamour Woman of the Year Awards "Editors Special Award."[146] Allen was nominated for a Highstreet Fashion Award in the category of "Best Dressed Celebrity."[147] In a readers poll for the weekly British style magazine Look, Allen was named the ninth best style role model. [148]
Allen has been described by the UK edition of Elle Magazine as a person who is not overly trendy in her fashion choices.[149]
According to a newspaper report Allen told Capital Radio she has done modelling for a unnamed company. .[150]
Allen is scheduled to unveil a line of jewellery in September 2009. The line has nine ranges and is influenced by Chanel and Dinny Hall.[151]
Discography
- 2006 : Alright, still
- 2009 : It's not me, It's you
VERSUS
Katy Perry
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), better known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singe
r-songwriter and musician. Perry rose to fame in 2007 with her internet hit "Ur So Gay", and later scored in 2008 her breakthrough single "I Kissed a Girl".
Hudson was born and raised in Santa Barbara by Christian pastor parents and grew up listening only to gospel music. After earning a GED during her freshman year of high school, she began to pursue a music career. As Katy Hudson, she released a self-titled gospel album in 2001. In 2004, she recorded an album with production team The Matrix, but it was never released. After signing on with Capitol Music Group in 2007, she took on stage name Katy Perry and released her first mainstream album, One of the Boys.
FASHION
Perry is known for her unconventional style of dress.[9] Her style is often humorous, bright in color, and reminiscent of different decades, as well as her frequent use of fruit-shaped accessories, mainly watermelon, as part of her outfits.[37] Her dark hair is signature to her look, but, as the music video to "Ur So Gay" shows, her hair is naturally blonde and she dyed her hair and eyebrows a darker color. Having learned dancing at an early age, she fancied about having her own style. Perry's transformation into an artist began with fashion, inspired by American film actress Dominique Swain's portrayal in 1997 film adaptation of the novel Lolita.[13] She defines her fashion "a bit of a concoction of different things".[9] Johnny Wujek, Perry's stylist, described her style, upon meeting her for the first time, as "very colorful and vintage".[42] Her fashion has caught the attention of designers, who were giving her nearly as much attention as fans of her music.[3][37]
Discography- 2001 : Katy Hudson
- 2008 : One of the boys
