Lily Allen: The FearThe Fear is a song from her second studio album ‘It’s Not Me It’s You’. It was released on the 26th January 2009 and was number one in the UK for four consecutive weeks. The song tackles problems with celebrity lifestyles and features some sarcasm.

Starts of with a shot of Lily in a caravan in the middle of nowhere, this isrepresents the fact that she (or the average person that wants to be famous)doesn’t have much money. It’s all quite innocent in the way the caravans allgirly and how there’s a bear hanging up on the line.

Here is a shot of Lily close up where she is directly signing to the camera“cause everyone knows that’s how you get famous” . Its clear that the idea ofthis shot is to get her point across to the audience.

She then walks into a mansion, which is a contrast to the shot of her in acaravan at the beginning. Here she is being waited on hand and foot, thatobviously is very much like today’s society in the ‘celebrity’ world.

She is constantly talking and connecting to the camera all the way through the video. Its seems like she’s trying to get the message of the song through to the audience.

Here Lily’s in a very innocent pose, very different from lots of other musicvideos these days that have many voyeuristic shots of women's’ body’s. Its allvery toned down in the way she dresses, and in a way a bit more classy.

Here she enters into a room full of big presents. Its all very over exaggeratedand unrealistic. She is again looking back at the camera and making eyecontact.

Then there’s a shot of all the presents coming to life and dancing around Lily.Here a POV shot is used. The audience are all looking down onto her, she is atthe centre of everything. It also has some intertextual links I feel to Alice InWonderland.

It ends in a shot of her being at the centre of the screen, again making eyecontact with the camera. While a very bizarre unreal world explodes behindher, lots of balloon’s fly up, along with coloured smoke. The grey sky is acontrast to what is happening behind her It seems she is trying to get thepoint across of it being a very unreal world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wGMlSuX_c