Lily Allen shares previously unreleased demos 'for LOLS'

June 9, 2014 19:57

The 'Sheezus' singer posted the songs on her SoundCloud page

Lily Allen has shared a number of previously unreleased demos.

The singer told her Twitter followers that she would be linking to the old track ideas "just for LOLS" earlier today (June 9). Allen wrote:

putting up some old demos on https://t.co/RDXz1fA1pc just for LOLS

— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) June 9, 2014

The demos are entitled 'I Was Born In The 80s', 'I Don't Mind Babe', 'Stop Right There', 'Age Of Beige' and 'My Town'. Scroll down to listen to the tracks.

Lily Allen will perform live at Glastonbury festival later this month and has stated that she is already working on her next album. Allen says she is "halfway through" a fourth LP but admitted she was unsure she would release any new music after that.

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M.I.A. Shares Album Details: New Disc Out in December

by Jason Lipshutz, N.Y.  |   August 07, 2012 12:25 EDT

In an impromptu Twitter chat with fans on Tuesday (Aug. 7), M.I.A. unveiled a few cryptic details of her still-untitled fourth album, which follows 2010's "/\/\ /\ Y /\." The disc will apparently be released in December, along with an autobiographical book announced earlier this year, a documentary, and art exhibition, setting up what will surely be a Very M.I.A. Christmas.

"if you want to know about LP = ask me questions and ill choose 10 to answer," M.I.A. posted on Twitter on Tuesday morning. Among the information M.I.A. chose to share was that the album is "still in the making," with no track list set; "could be 5 [songs] it could be 15 depends on what sounds good in my bros CAR," she wrote.

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Also, the album features "no collabs," and producers "that don't act like fame whore coloniser," which may be construed as a shot at her estranged former collaborator, Diplo. M.I.A. also clarified that "Bad Girls," her single released earlier this year and remixed alongside artists like Missy Elliott, Rye Rye and Azealia Banks, will appear on the forthcoming album.

After achieving new stardom with her 2007 single "Paper Planes," M.I.A.'s third album, "/\/\ /\ Y /\," received mixed reviews, and was criticized for flipping the middle finger during Madonna's Super Bowl halftime show performance in February. However, the Sri-Lankan born singer is apparently tuning out her critics after a tumultuous period in her career: "No one in the industry collected blows in the last 3 years as much as me , this is a fuck you to them and a thank you to you," M.I.A. told a fan that asked if the new album was going to be "FIERCE."

In March, M.I.A. announced plans to release an autobiography titled "M.I.A.," incorporating previously unreleased photos and testimonies, this fall. Details behind the singer's upcoming documentary and art exhibit are unknown.  

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Beyonce shares family photos on new fan website

Singer Beyonce poses at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles August 28, 2011. Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, will welcome their first child next spring.

Credit: Reuters/Danny Moloshok

LOS ANGELES | Thu Apr 5, 2012 3:10pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B superstar Beyonce gave fans some insight into her private life on Thursday with the relaunch of her website, featuring intimate snapshots of her daily routines the singer has carefully shielded from the public until now.

"This is my life, today, over the years - through my eyes. My family, my travels, my love. This is where I share with you. This will continue to grow as I do," the singer wrote on her new website.

Beyonce.com features a montage of candid shots from the singer's personal life including pictures of her on holiday, with her husband, rapper Jay-Z, and family and during her pregnancy.

One 15-second video shows the singer posing by a blue ivy tree during while pregnant, which perhaps provided the inspiration for her newborn daughter's name, Blue Ivy Carter.

"It's been a long time coming, but I finally have my own place on the web," the singer posted on her Facebook page, where she has 34 million fans.

Beyonce also took the opportunity of launching her new site to tweet her 3.5 million Twitter fans for first time.

The "Single Ladies" singer has kept her private life under wraps in the past, including getting married to Jay-Z in a shroud of secrecy in April 2008 and waiting five months after the event to debut her wedding ring.

But Beyonce, 30 and Jay-Z, 42, who were estimated to be worth $72 million by Forbes in 2011, have been slowly lifting the veil on their luxury life.

The couple released intimate pictures of Blue Ivy through social networking site Tumblr in February, shunning the popular celebrity choice of a lucrative magazine deal.

(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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