Glastonbury 2022: The history of Lily Allen's F**k You following her surprise Olivia Rodrigo duet
officialcharts.comIt may have took many by surprise this weekend when Olivia Rodrigo (taking a cue from her beloved idol, Taylor Swift) paused her first-ever set at Glastonbury to welcome to the stage another artist, one who she deemed "someone I absolutely adore" and an "incredible" songwriter.
That artist was Lily Allen, the equally-beloved British pop queen who, decked head to toe in Chanel, led the vast Other Stage audience in a rendition of her quirky 2009 track F**k You, taken from her graceful second album It's Not Me, It's You.
Olivia dedicated the explicit kiss-off track to the five US Supreme Court justices who last week voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, in a widely criticised move.
Naming each by name, Olivia deftly re-purposed F**k You's original political message (which criticises the far-right politician's views on gender, sexuality and race) for 2022, allowing old fans to re-experience it and for new ones to discover it (and Lily herself) for the first time.
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