Lily Allen Slams Beyoncé’s Nation Album as ‘Calculated’ and ‘Bizarre’

Lily Allen is not holding again relating to sharing her trustworthy opinion about Beyoncé‘s new nation album … slamming the chart-topper for making an attempt too arduous.

The English singer broke down “Cowboy Carter” throughout Wednesday’s episode of her “Miss Me?” podcast — and Lily and her cohost, Miquita Oliver, zeroed in on Bey’s rendition of Dolly Parton‘s “Jolene.”

Lily, who’s married to David Harbour, stated she discovered it a “bizarre” transfer to redo such a legendary music, within the first place.

As she put it, “I simply really feel prefer it’s fairly an attention-grabbing factor to do once you’re like making an attempt to sort out a brand new style and also you simply select the largest music in that style to cowl. I imply, you do you, Beyoncé, and she or he actually is doing her. Or is she doing Dolly?”

Lily’s additionally obtained an issue with the idea of ‘Cowboy’ and thinks the rollout for it was completely premeditated — singling out Jay-Z‘s Grammys speech, wherein he slammed the Recording Academy for not honoring his spouse within the Album of the Yr class.

Whereas Lily acknowledged Bey is coming for the nation market after she was booed on the 2016 CMA Awards, she felt the entire marketing campaign has come off “fairly calculated.”

As if that wasn’t sufficient to get the Hive buzzing … Lily dared to convey up Bey’s look, considerably shadily remarking, “I am simply saying that like, you realize, she’s obtained a terrific group of stylists, hair individuals, you realize, she works out loads. I am positive she’s obtained the entry to the most effective trainers on the earth.”