Beyoncé fans dig up Lily Allen’s problematic past and use of blackface after British artist refers to singer having ‘help’ with plastic surgery to look good

Lily Allen criticized Beyoncé’s sonic exploration of country music in “Cowboy Carter,” and now she has to deal with hordes of social media users exposing her problematic past. The latest project of the world pop star was among the many topics discussed in this system “Miss Me?” a podcast that Allen co-hosts with Miquita Oliver.

The first hit that appealed to women was Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” which featured an intro by the county music legend and updated lyrics. “I don’t think this Jolene is any good,” Oliver said. “It’s very strange that you covered the most successful songs in this genre,” Allen joked.

Oliver further explained, “But I also feel like ‘Jolene’ is a great song, like I’m listening to the story over and over again about how Dolly Parton wrote it in about 20 minutes because I think it’s brilliant.” And I do not know, it just felt like kind of standard hip-hop under the “Jolene” cover.

“It’s like, let’s do something with this song,” Oliver continued. “If we take it apart and put it back together, I feel like Beyoncé could have done a little more with it, or maybe chosen something that was less of a bait to hide.”

The British artist agreed with her friend, adding: “Yeah, I just feel prefer it’s quite an interesting thing if you want to tackle a brand new genre and just pick the most important song in that genre to cover. I mean, you do it, Beyoncé, and she literally does it. Or possibly she’s doing Dolly?

Beyoncé’s defender fired back at tweet which read: “Lily Allen, you recognize what’s weird? You stick your husband’s penis in blackface and say it’s Azealia Banks. The explicit photo included a large red-lipped smile on her then-husband Sam Cooper’s cock, a gold chain, bulging eyes and a tuft of black afro-like hair. It was made available in July 2013.

At the time, Allen and Azelia Banks were embroiled in a web-based feud that began after the rapper called Cooper ugly. Additional context regarding the blackface moment suggests that the depiction was also inspired by the golliwog rag doll, which was used as an offensive caricature within the nineteenth century.

Allen’s 2014 music video for “Hard Out Here” was also mentioned. In some scenes she was scrubbing rims within the kitchen sink. In one other, she was surrounded by black backup dancers shaking in bikinis, and in others, the dancers were poured champagne, smoked cigarettes, had money stuffed down their blouses and used a Rolls-Royce as a crutch to keep spinning, as Allen sang: “It’s hard here for ab-ch.”

It was criticized by critics, including Joe Bishop, a contributor to The Guardian, for images that some considered racist. She responded by writing on Twitter that the video “has nothing to do with race at all” and that it “is intended to be a light-hearted, satirical video that addresses the objectification of women in contemporary pop culture… The message is clear.”

She also claimed that her company simply hired the very best dancers and that she practiced twerking for 2 weeks, but felt too insecure about her figure and cellulite to dress skimpily and join within the dancing.

Allen also responded to critics of “Hard Out Here,” particularly a journalist from The Guardian, by writing one other song, “URL Badman.” The journalist reacted by writing next song titled “Lily Allen wrote a song about me because I accused her of racism.”

Coincidentally, Lily Allen’s “Hard Out Here” also addressed the difficulty of body shaming as she lay on the operating table with the surgeon poking and prodding at her stomach. Elsewhere within the podcast, when Oliver said Beyoncé’s beauty makes her feel optimistic about hitting her 40s, Allen seemed to be referencing the “Black is King” artist, who uses plastic surgery to maintain her youthful appearance.

“He’s getting help,” she joked. Her co-host responded by insisting that Beyoncé didn’t go under the knife.

“I didn’t say that,” Allen replied. “I’m just saying that you know that he has a great team of stylists, hairdressers, you know that he trains a lot, he has access to the best trainers in the world, for example he knows that he is Beyoncé.”

Even though her name is among the many top X-topics, Allen only shared a response to the backlash on Instagram. She also limited comments on her latest post.

Beyoncé fans dig up Lily Allen’s problematic past and use of blackface image after British artist refers to singer having ‘help’ with plastic surgery to look good