Fuck You (Lily Allen song)
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| Single by Lily Allen | |||||||||||||||||
| from the album It's Not Me, It's You | |||||||||||||||||
| Released | 10 July 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Genre | Dance-pop | ||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:43 | ||||||||||||||||
| Label | Regal | ||||||||||||||||
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| Producer(s) | Greg Kurstin | ||||||||||||||||
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"Fuck You" is a song by English singer Lily Allen from her second album It's Not Me, It's You (2009). It is her third international single. The song became a quasi-gay anthem because of the song's lyrical message. The song was featured in the pilot of ABC's Suburgatory.
The song originally appeared on Allen's Myspace page in 2008 alongside the songs "I Could Say" and "I Don't Know" (later released as "The Fear") under the title "Guess Who Batman". The song samples the piano of the theme to the Australian television show Neighbours. The song was written by Allen and Greg Kurstin. Allen wrote: "We are the youth, we can make coolness for our future, it's up to us. Go green and hate hate."
Despite its titular reference to the Caped Crusader, according to NME and Rolling Stone magazines the song is a George W. Bush protest. At an concert of 2 April 2009 at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, Allen stated that the song was about Bush. At a concert in São Paulo, Brazil, Allen stated, "It was originally written about this fucking arsehole who used to be the President of the United States of America. His name is George W. Bush."
The Urban Review states that it was originally inspired by the far-right British National Party, adding Allen now "feels the track is relevant everywhere now so has removed a particular target." At the 2009 Glastonbury Festival prior to performing the song, Allen made reference to the elections to the European parliament that had commenced three weeks earlier in which the British National Party gained their first ever representative seats, citing this as a reason to sing the song.
The song made its chart debut at number 37 on the Canadian Top 100 on 28 February 2009 despite not being released as an actual single. The song also entered the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 68 on the same week, being her third song on entry.
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