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It is rare to find a singer songwriter with the stones to write an entire ode specifically created to give the proverbial middle finger to small mindedly intolerant individuals (you know who you are). It takes an even more unique musical force to manage the truly special feat to maintain that oh-so-unique stylings of ever charming British politeness. Lilly Allen has somehow pulled off this clever hat trick on her new album "It's Not Me, It's You."

On one of the lyrically clever and musically inventive tracks on her new album Lilly decides that it is time to say a cerrtain naughty word to a certain judgmental section of the population. Yet after saying the word, she then qualifies it in the refrain by telling her chosen enemy to "insert bad word here" you very, very much." Adding to the gloriously liberating revelry of the statement is the sing-songy delivery of the kiss off anthem which gives this track an almost upbeat quality. "Look inside/Look inside your tiny mind/And look a bit harder/ Cause we're so uninspired/So sick and tired/ Of all the hatred you harbor/ So you say/It's not okay to be gay/ Well I think that's just evil/ Your point of view is medieval/ (expletive) you very, very much/Cause we hate what you do/And we hate your whole crew/So please don't stay in touch."

Unsurprisingly with such radio-unfriendly verbiage Lilly Allen has yet to make much of an impact on the charts here in the United States. By taking a listen to the rest of the album, most of which does not rely on the use of harsh epithets, it is easy to find a number of radio quality anthems. But by looking at the quality of what constitutes a chart topper in this country it is easy to see that Ms. Allen's clever wordplay might just go over the head of the average music listener.

"It's Not You, It's Me" was produced by Mark Ronson, the musical force behind Amy Winehouse's monster hit "Back in Black." While Lilly's album sounds nothing like Amy's, there is one song that may have been inspired by the perennially rehab ready songstress. The song is called "Everyone's at It" and it speaks to the fact that the rampant problem of drug addiction will never be successfully dealt with until people admit that seemingly everyone has a secret habit. "I'm not trying to say that I'm smelling of roses/But when will we tire of putting stuff up our noses?/Why can't we all/All just be honest/Admit to ourselves that everyone's at it?/From grown politicians/To young adolescents/Prescribing themselves antidepressants."

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