I don't really like Lily Allen, so I'm not shocked that I don't like this song either. However, mostly I don't like that Lily Allen made this whole video about not wanting to conform to standards of female beauty, while she gets to be the only covered up person in her video that features scantily clad female dancers. I actually feel more critical of her video after reading her defense of it, in which she says she chose not to wear revealing clothing because it made her uncomfortable, and "nobody wants to see" her cellulite.

None of the back up dancers in her video would be out of place in a "non parody" video, which for me, means that this isn't a good enough parody. Similar to the Miley Cyrus VMA debacle, this seems like a bit of a minstrel show. Doing something you don't like, "satirically", is still doing that thing and repeating those stereotypes. If she really wanted to subvert stereotypes, she could have included a range of body types, races and genders, but she isn't doing anything new or funny here at all. The lyrics include lines like "I don't need to shake my ass for you because I've got a brain" - so what does that say about her backup dancers?

Points for the helium balloons, though.