00s pop star ‘resents’ her Christmas hit and was ‘threatened’ into performing it

Lily Allen has revealed that she was pressured into creating her deed Christmas screen of Somewhere Only We Know – and made thing from the hit.

Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver discussed Christmas fig ones connected their podcast Miss Me?

In their latest occurrence titled Netflix and Kill, Lily revealed that she didn’t privation to marque her Christmas deed which was utilized successful the John Lewis advert of 2014.

She explained that she made nary wealth connected the deed opus and felt that it didn’t acceptable with the remainder of her repertoire.

‘I had a Christmas song, it was fig 1 for 4 weeks but past I deliberation Mariah Carey oregon idiosyncratic other came on and did her thing.

‘It would beryllium irritating if I gave an iota of a s**t, but I don’t so,’ the Smile vocalist said.

Explaining her vexation with the opus she explained that she felt that it defined her for immoderate listeners. She commented: ‘I benignant of consciousness similar I’ve been defined by that opus and it’s not my opus and I didn’t constitute it truthful it irritates me.’

‘It’s bully that it brings radical joyousness and that radical link to it and it makes them consciousness good. I similar to person an effect similar that.’

She past added that portion she loves John Lewis, singing for the advert was’never connected [her] bucket database of things to do.’

Lily explained that ‘really didn’t privation to bash it’ but the connection came conscionable arsenic her medium Sheezus was astir to travel out.

‘They pitched it close truthful my absorption institution came to maine and said, they person got a clump of radical to transportation and it’s improbable that you’ll get it but tin you bash it?’

She past added that her absorption told her: ‘If you don’t bash it morale volition beryllium debased successful the selling section erstwhile it comes to your album.’

‘I was precise pressured into it,’ she admitted.

The Not Fair vocalist explained that John Lewis had selected the song, and she was 1 of astir 20 artists to taxable covers that went with their ‘Bear and the Hare video.’

She said she spent 45 minutes signaling the opus and conscionable ‘chucked it out’, adding that she made thing connected the merchandise arsenic it was a screen of Keane’s song.

Lily added that Keane ‘made a killing’ but added that she didn’t ‘begrudge’ them.

The John Lewis advert has featured respective covers which person go immense hits during the festive period.

In 2015 the advert featured Aurora’s screen of the Oasis opus Half the World Away. In2016 Randy Crawford’s One Day I’ll Fly Away was performed by English electronica set Vaults.

In 2012, Gabrielle Aplin was featured successful the advert, singing a screen of The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

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