Lily Allen: 'Who'd Have Known'

Let's get the controversy out the way at the start. Yes, 'Who'd Have Known' does beg, steal and borrow its chorus from a popular recent Take That hit, an aberration Lily Allen admitted when she first uploaded it to her MySpace page back in July 2008. However, before it made her current album, Gazza B and co cleared the sample - while also politely declining to contribute to the track - and duly receive credit as co-writers. All good? Super, in that case, let's get on with discussing the song.

Well, quite simply, this is one of the loveliest things to which Lily Allen's put her name. Less simply, but more precisely, it's a warm 'n' fuzzy electro-tinged ballad about being pleasantly surprised at the progress of your new relationship. "Even though it's moving forward," she explains crisply, "There's just the right amount of awkward." Allen's vocals are gorgeously intimate throughout, her lyrics squeeze in a neat reference to A Place In The Sun and, well, if she did have to nick a chorus, there's no denying that she picked a goodun.


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