Word: girls
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...that Dancy isn't cute - he is, like a smaller, more delicately featured Hugh Grant - but simply because Becky seems more interested in mannequins than in men. There's nothing womanly about any of her getups; they're more like costumes put on by a little girl playing dress-up. She's not looking for a boyfriend; she's looking for a $120 scarf that, as she says in voiceover, can help define your psyche...
...make pizzas.") When everyone in town is either a gangster or his potential victim, kids learn early to choose sides. What's exciting and, briefly, enriching for the boys, the Mob sees as labor that's cheap, malleable, expendable. In this sense, the film is Slumdog Millionaire without the girl, the songs or even a long shot at redemption...
...existence of a precocious streak. There was a minor controversy over Allen's fondness for obscenities and Mockney (the British term for the upper-class affectation of a lower-class Cockney accent, à la Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins), but even that advanced her charm as a real girl sticking up for herself, even if no one was actually trying to keep her down...
Allen's follow-up, It's Not Me, It's You, isn't nearly as cute, but grownup things rarely are. Born in London and raised there by an actor father and a film-producer mother (as a girl, Allen appeared as a lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth and was mentored by, among others, Joe Strummer), Allen, 23, appears to have embraced a slightly more serious view of what pop can be. Not that you can tell from the hooks. Produced by Greg Kurstin of the retro-pop duo the Bird and the Bee, the music robs every genre...
...something smart. "The Fear," already a hit in Britain, is a hummable single about vapid consumerism ("I want to be rich and I want lots of money/ I don't care about clever I don't care about funny") that honors both "Lost in the Supermarket" and "Material Girl." "Not Fair" laments that her otherwise excellent boyfriend is lousy in bed ("I look into your eyes, I want to get to know yer/ And then you make this noise and it's apparent it's all over") but advances from slagging wit to real disappointment in the chorus...