According to The Mirror, It's Not Me It's You was "bookie Ladbrokes' joint favourite to WIN the award this year". So not even getting nominated must smart a bit.
When asked how she felt about it, Lily said: "I'm like Gazza, the judges hate me but the people, dem love me. I hope La Roux wins." Ok. Not everyone would choose to associate themselves with a history of alcoholism and metal health issues, but dem people do love dem honesties. As for her wanting La Roux to win, that's hardly surprising, that album has about as much depth as, oh, I dunno, a nursery rhyme stuck in a loop. It's infuriatingly catchy, but where will it be this time next year?
Of her disappointment, one of Lily's friends offered: "Lil was genuinely fuming by this. She has worked so hard on this album and everyone thought it was a dead cert that she would be in the running. It was like a kick in the teeth when she found out the night before the official announcement that they had ignored her again. She went down the pub with some mates to drown her sorrows. The thing is, there is no blueprint as to how the judges pick and choose an act. That's what she can't get her head around. Millions of people bought her album, more than Kasabian, Florence and the Machine or Bat For Lashes, who has been nominated for the second time. So what more does she have to do to get some recognition?"
Um, not sure what "more" she could do (other than inserting imaginative words instead of "f***" in her lyrics) but she could perhaps stop singing repetitive nursery rhymes herself; getting her beestings out at every given opportunity; entering online slanging matches with Perez Hilton; high-kicking paps in the street; slapping French tourists in the street; getting so inebriated at award ceremonies that she's carried out by hand happy security dudes; generally mouthing off in a negative manner about other tabloid fodder...
For a full list of the Mercury Prize Nominees, please visit our Music News article.
