Lily Allen has thrown shade at Beyoncé’s cover of country classic Jolene, calling it “weird”.
The Not Fair singer critiqued her contemporary’s new music this week on her Miss Me? podcast.
When her cohost Miquita Oliver asked whether she’d listened to Beyoncé’s new country-influenced album Country Carter, Lily didn’t hold back.
First, though, she admitted she had not heard the entire record.
“I’ve heard a few bits,” Lily, 38, said. “I listened to the Miley Cyrus one and I listened to the Blackbird one, which is the Beatles cover.
“I have to listen to the whole thing from start to finish, because I haven’t done a deep dive on it yet.”
She went on to says she found it “weird” that Beyoncé, 42, had included a cover of Dolly Parton’s classic Jolene.
“It’s very weird,” she said, “that you’d cover the most successful songs in that genre.”
“It’s quite an interesting to do, when you’re trying to, like, tackle a genre and you just choose the biggest song in that genre to cover.”
“I mean, you do you, Beyoncé – and she literally is doing her, but why is she doing Dolly?”
Lily also said she had enjoyed a scathing quote from rapper Azealia Banks about Beyoncé’s husband, Jay-Z.
“I read a comment from Azealia Banks where she was like ‘and stop talking about Jay Z as if anyone wants to f**k him’,” Lily laughed.
“Literally no one’s even looked at him for about 10 years, relax.”
