Foul mouthed pop pixie Lily Allen has decided to step out of the debate on file sharing, claiming she is getting too much abuse.
File sharing is changing the music industry on a daily basis. With technology ever advancing record labels are in a constant state of flux, desperately trying to work out how to deal with inexorable tide of digital age.
Into this vast debate stepped Lily Allen. Posting a new blog titled ‘It’s Not Alright’ the singer outlined her opposition to file sharing, and claimed that the FAC’s lax attitude to the problem was hurting emerging musicians.
Gaining supportive messages from Mark Ronson, Muse singer Matt Bellamy, Take That’s Gary Barlow and more, the blog became a huge talking point in the music industry. Yesterday Lily Allen announced that she was leaving music, claiming that she didn’t really earn any money from it anyway. Instead, the singer aims to turn towards acting.
Subsequently deleting the much publicised blog Lily Allen has now explained that she was suffering from the “abuse” being levelled at her.
Speaking on her Twitter page Lily Allen revealed that: “The abuse was getting too much.”
“I’m proud of the fact that that I’ve been involved with this debate but I’m passing the baton on to other artists” she added. “There is a meeting today in london where artists are meeting to discuss piracy. My job done.”
Lily Allen added however that she wouldn’t be attending the meeting, claiming that “it’s going to be a press frenzy and I don’t want to detract from the issues”.
The Featured Artists Coalition is set to meet in London today (September 25th) “to hammer out a unified position on this issue” reports Billboard.
