Lily Allen To Quit the Music Business?

After lashing out at the Featured Artists Coalition and recruiting Patrick Wolf on her side against leniency toward pirating, Lily Allen has quieted it down a bit. After she stirred up emotions and ultimately suggested artists to take a certain side on the issue (she even started a blog titled It’s Not Alright – a wordplay off of her debut album title) she took her initial blog post down.

Her reasoning? Her twitter was getting a crazy reaction from people all over the world. “The abuse was getting too much [...] I’m proud of the fact that that I’ve been involved with this debate but I’m passing the baton on to other artists.”

However, even before she took that post down, Pitchfork says that she wrote another entry where it made it sound like she was going to stop making music altogether.

We can see how readers can conclude that when she wrote the following:

“Just so you know, I have not renegotiated my record contract and have no plans to make another record (applause). I do, however, remain a fan of new music, so this is not some selfish crusade. The days of me making money from recording music has been and gone as far as I’m concerned, so i don’t(at this point) stand to profit from legislation. except future purchases of previously recorded material(which wont be much).”

Should everyone else worry about Allen quitting the music industry? According to the guardian.co.uk (via Allen’s publicist), we shouldn’t. The confronting pop star’s publicist stated, “”Lily is not quitting pop music and is still promoting and touring her current album.” The British paper also reminded readers that Allen has said similar things before.

Ed O’Brien, member of Radiohead and victim of Allen’s accusations, was also well aware of Lily’s opinion. According to NME, O’Brien told BBC:

“What’s great at the moment is that artists, people like Lily Allen, are saying, ‘You know what, there are consequences to file-sharing,’ and that’s the first step in engaging the file-sharers…At the moment, the industry is saying you get them to change their behaviour by threatening them. We don’t think this is realistic. Hopefully we can educate them and say, ‘Listen, if you want a great vibrant music scene and your favourite bands to be able to carry on doing it, you have a responsibility to pay for some of the work that they’ve produced [...] I completely agree with Lily Allen. We’re [Radiohead] certainly not going to suffer. A lot of people have downloaded our music for free, but ultimately we don’t suffer as much as a small band.”

He has a point. Perhaps Allen should’ve have gone with another approach as a musician.

Point being that she still IS a musician, but… Would you have missed Lily Allen if she disappeared from the recording world?