Lily Allen confused over album delay

Says phonograph record industry a 'political place at the moment'




LONDON -- U.K. pop star Lily Allen has expressed mental confusion over the release of her soph set amid the current changes at EMI.

The follow-up to her 2006 album "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone) is due at some point in the fourth quarter or early next yr. The as-yet-untitled record volition be issued on Capitol in the U.S.

"It has been finished for a while like a shot, I don't really experience what's going on with it," Allen said in a bill on MySpace. "The record industry is a very political billet at the moment, and I am on EMI records, dozens of masses have been fired or have taken redundancy latterly as the company was taken over by a private equity firm called Terra Firma."

Billboard.biz has heard 10 tracks from the record, once again produced by Greg Kurstin, and Allen sounds as lyrically confident as ever so. Tracks such as "Everyone's at It" and "I Don't Know" showcase a more electronic sound, with the latter song dissecting her yellow journalism infamy. New demos take also been posted on MySpace, each racking up between 250,000 and 1 jillion plays.

Allen adds, "Many of these people were people assigned to my projects and now I don't quite know what's sledding on. I'm sure everyone will find their feet soon sufficiency and I'll be able to put the album out soon."

EMI did not comment on Allen's remarks.

'Twilight' Lexicon Blog Hacked By 'Breaking Dawn' Haters

The feuding vampires and werewolves in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" serial publication have enjoyed a longstanding truce, only the battle between unembarrassed fans of the a la mode novel, "Breaking Dawn," and those wHO were thwarted or maddened over the eagerly anticipated conclusion is just heating up.

On Friday, that struggle went technological, as the most striking "Twilight" fan site on the Web, the Twilight Lexicon web log, was hacked by a malicious figurer criminal, shutting down the site for more than 48 hours. It was an opening salvo aimed directly at the series' most vociferous and zealous supporters, wHO were targeted because of their fealty, site moderator Nicole Bright told MTV News.

"The Internet community has become very polarized � either you liked this book or you hated this book. We took a stance that if you liked the book, we're sledding to be a home for discourse about that," Bright aforesaid. "We know that it was a disgruntled fan of the series wHO hacked our system. It took lieu as a direct result of the Lexicon's championship of Stephenie Meyer and her work."

By Bright's have admission, the Lexicon web log is non particularly welcoming of those readers world Health Organization hated the book, peculiarly when that hate spills over from appropriated review sections and message boards into other areas of the site. In recent weeks, moderators have removed many of these peculiarly hateful comments, in issue limiting the free exchange of ideas and thoughts on the blog.

That's their right, Bright insisted, claiming the Lexicon is non the position for factious contrarianism.

"If you were bill on every thread on our forums, 'Stephenie Meyer is a terrible writer. Everything about it is horrible,' then we just aren't the place for you," Bright aforesaid. "As her official fan site, this needs to be a positive situation where we can gather together and discuss what we wish and experience positive conversation. Hate junk e-mail makes it very difficult for someone to enjoy the site."

It was this aggressive moderation that the hackers victimized as their war weep, ironically stating that they were championing free

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