Song Lyrics

Below are the lyrics for the music video we are filming.

Lily Allen - The Fear

I want to be rich and i want lots of money
I don't care about clever i don't care about funny
I want loads of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them

And i'll take my clothes off and it will be shameless
'cuz everyone knows that's how you get famous
I'll look at the sun and i'll look in the mirror
I'm on the right track yeah i'm on to a winner

I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And i don't know how i'm meant to feel anymore
And when do you think it will all become clear?
'cuz i'm being taken over by the fear

Life's about film stars and less about mothers
It's all about fast cars and cussing each other
But it doesn't matter cause i'm packing plastic
And that's what makes my life so **** fantastic

And i am a weapon of massive consumption
And its not my fault it's how i'm programmed to function
I'll look at the sun and i'll look in the mirror
I'm on the right track yeah we're on to a winner

I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And i don't know how i'm meant to feel anymore
And when do you think it will all become clear?
'cuz i'm being taken over by the fear

Forget about guns and forget ammunition
'cuz i'm killing them all on my own little mission
Now i'm not a saint but i'm not a sinner
Now everything is cool as long as i'm getting thinner

I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And i don't know how i'm meant to feel anymore
And when do you think it will all become clear?
'cuz i'm being taken over by the fear
Analysis

For our music video we are using the version which does not include swearing in. This is becasue our target audience is teenagers and younger so we cannot include swearing, also it would be aired on all major music channels as it was number one in the charts at one point so the swearing would be cut out anyway.

Lyrically, the song is a rant about materialism "sung in the voice of a would-be starlet", and tackles societal consumerism and overnight-fame-hunting. It also makes reference, through the line "I'll look at the sun and I'll look in the mirror", at the daily British tabloid newspapers The Sun and The Mirror, which often report on Allen.

By Sarah Panzetta