Reviews
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU dials down the sass in favor of sincere self-reflection and a greater grasp of morning-after consequences.", Included in Entertainment Weekly's 'The Best Albums of 2009' -- "Reeling between pop-political indictments and disarmingly personal confessions.", 3 stars out of 5 -- "The centrally heated electro-pop of 'Chinese' describes the coupled-up joy of TV and a takeaway, while Allen's voice breaks into a genuine smile on 'Who'd Have Known'...", 3 stars out of 5 -- "It sounds fantastic. With producer Greg Kurstin at her side, Allen has gotten more musically eclectic, jettisoning the thumping rock-steady of ALRIGHT, STILL without sacrificing catchiness or dance-floor bounce.", "Her most wounded musings are paired with serious hooks....She pokes excellent fun at her own material-girl id on 'The Fear'..." -- Grade: B+, "This is perceptive pop for a consumer culture OD'ing on consumer culture and Houdini investments....Her plight -- bare, self-conscious, petty, fearful -- is familiar.", "Allen is probably better (and funnier) detailing her disdain for the party scene than she was describing her love of it.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "She offsets an assault of cheekiness with confessions so intimate, they could have been drafted during an A.A. meeting.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Allen keeps it reliably real. Music's a richer place for her telling it as it is.", "IT'S NOT ME IT'S YOU is a dangerously likeable shift for the girl who continues to wear her heart in her songs....Britain's mouthy pop-idol returns triumphantly and with the brawny guts to stick with what she knows best.", Ranked #19 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2009" -- "The darkly comic IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU reveals an English social satirist..."
