Beyoncé could have inspired Lily Allen to release new music in honour of her own love for the Western genre, although the Fear singer had previously called the move "calculated."
The 38-year-old has been working in Nashville, igniting hopes for a fifth album among fans, six years following the release of 2018's No Shame.
Spilling the beans to Angela Hartnet and Nick Grimshaw on their Dish podcast on Tuesday, Lily admitted that she is working on a string of new country-inspired tracks - but her new work will "not be album."
"I'm just making some space for some music. For some music to reveal itself," she said. "It's not an album [...] I'm just, you know, trying some stuff out, see if it works."
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But the London singer has since revealed she's working on her own set of tracks celebrating her love for the Western genreLily then added: "I do love country and western music. And also I feel like with my writing, it's quite storytelling, sort of like narrative led music. Because I don't feel things, so it's never about emotions."
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While Lily, who tied the knot with Stranger Things star David Harbour in 2020, is working out the recipe for another chart-topping song, the news may be a surprise for her fans as she'd once deemed Beyoncé's own transition to the genre "calculated" and questioned why the R&B star chose to cover Dolly Parton's Jolene.
Speaking about her presence in Nashville on Dish, Lily stated: "I'm here because I love country music and always have done, not saying Beyoncé doesn't, but I tell stories in my music and that's what country music is."
Lily Allen had been analytical when Beyoncé's newest album first dropped in March, calling it a "calculated" move as she pointed out Queen Bee's husband Jay-Z and his speech at the Grammy Awards criticising the anonymous voting body.
"I think it's been quite calculated," Lily had said on her BBC Sounds podcast Miss Me? with her pal Miquita Oliver. "I feel like when Jay-Z got up at the Grammys, that was part of this campaign. It was before the album had come out or even been announced and she was wearing the blonde wig and a cowboy hat."
She'd then doubled down by suggesting that Beyonce had made things easier for herself by choosing to cover Dolly Parton's Grammy-nominated song. "It's quite an interesting thing to do when you're trying to tackle a new genre and you pick the biggest song in that genre. I mean you do you, Beyoncé."
But after critiquing the pop star's work, Lily had recognised that it was all part of a powerful move to "challenge the institution" with Beyoncé becoming "the most played woman on country music."
The hotly anticipated Cowboy Carter, the eighth of a long and fruitful career kicked off in the late 1990s, left Beyoncé's fans in an excited frenzy and received mixed reactions from critics. While some were left perplexed, the former Destiny's Child front woman, a Texas native, was also celebrated for her first foray in the country music genre with a series of reviews praising her work.
One notable review by Page Six critic Nicholas Hautman branded the 27-track album "the revival that country music so desperately needed", calling it "instantly timeless."
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