Lily Allen signed to Regal towards the end of last year and, at the same time, started putting tracks up on the internet. Since then she has had a staggering million plus people listen to her music on myspace, whilst her weekly blogs have spread details of her increasingly eventful life across the world. Her two free mixtapes, audacious mixes of her own music with a disparate selection of other tunes, have become collectors items in their own right.

The last words must go to Lily herself;

"A lot of female artists, and male ones for that matter, are boring singers who don't say anything. Certainly not to my generation. With the kind of music I do you have to be direct and quite literal. I don't play an instrument, which really makes me focus on the vocal melody, and the lyrics are incredibly important to me. I'll beat myself up for ages over one line because I don't feel that the song flows as a story."

Of the record's eleven tracks, Lily says:

"I find it funny, that record company- speak of 'how many singles have you got? I mean, why don't you just try and do an album of 11 singles, instead of three? So that's what I did."