So I recently purchased Lily Allen’s newest album It’s Not Me, It’s You. The more I listen to it, the more I relate it to my own life. I love it when that happens

Song-by-song analysis after the jump.

1. “Everyone’s At It” This song doesn’t have to do much with my life at the moment, but I definitely share her scorn at the way we now seem to have a pill to pop for every problem in the book. I do, however, relate to the line “Why can’t we all, all just be honest?” My life would be much easier if everyone around me could be honest with each other instead of hiding behind their problems.

2. “The Fear” In this song, Lily satirizes typical hollywood with lines like “I’ll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless/’Cause everyone knows that’s how you get famous” I heard this song on my local indie station a few months ago and loved not only the lyrics but the sound of the song as well.

3. “Not Fair” A song about not being sexually attracted to the man of her dreams. This describes a situation in my life so well. When one of my bestfriends confessed that he not only has feelings for me, but that he has been in love with me for quite some time, it threw me for a loop. While I care for him deeply, and he has many qualities that I want in a boyfriend, I’m just not attracted to him like that. Needlesss to say, our friendship is fairly awkward at the moment.

4. “22″ This song is one that I hope doesn’t relate to me in four years. At eighteen, I’m already freaked about the economy, covering tuition costs, rent, insurance, finding another job, etc. There are days when I wonder if I can even afford to go to college. Whenever I get anxious about waiting for a letter of acceptance, I end up reminding myself of the fact that the state school which used to be my fallback option is the only college I applied to. It’s a weird feeling to go from an academic resume of a 2090 on the SATs and 4s and 5s on AP tests to hoping to get into the local state university.

5. “I Could Say” In this song, Allen sings to a former lover, telling him all the comforting things she could say but won’t because they’re not true. In this difficult break-up, I try to keep telling myself that it’s just like all of the others– someday, he won’t matter, soon I’ll be on the other side of it.It’s a lot harder to tell yourself when your ex-boyfriend was also your best friend.

6. “Back to the Start” Last year, my former best friend and I started drifting away from each other. While my life began to fall apart, her’s seemed all-too-perfect; she didn’t have to work, was able to devote as much time to schoolwork as necessary, had a beautiful house, loving and caring parents — I was picking up extra shifts whenever I could to help pay the bills, letting my schoolwork go by the wayside, and getting bounced back-and-forth between parents depending on their respective moods. I started to resent her, we spent less time together, we found different groups of friends, our respective experiences pushed us further away from each other as we grew in opposite directions; soon, the girl with whom I used to share everything had become my greatest annoyance.

7.”Never Gonna Happen” Sometimes people just need to take a hint. ‘Nuff said.

8. “Fuck You” I LOVE THIS SONG. How can you not love a song that sings “Fuck you/Fuck you very, very much/’Cause we hate what you do/And we hate your whole crew/So please don’t stay in touch” All I’m going to say about this is that there are some people that I never want to see again after I graduate.

9&10. “Who’d Have Known”  and “Chinese” These are those songs that I sometimes have to skip because they remind me so much of my life. My life with him. Before the breakup. When I more or less just lived at his house because mine wasn’t a home. When there were days that I beat him home and walked his dogs so he didn’t have to brave the cold. When we’d go grocery shopping on friday nights before curling up in bed with a Disney movie. When I’d go house-hunting with his mom. Sigh.

11. “Him” The lyrics in this song are interesting, rather than criticizing the notion of God or of religion, Allen critiques the common stereotypes of fundamental religion. I love the chorus “Ever since He can remember/People have died in His good name/Long before that September/Long before hijacking planes”

12.”He wasn’t There” To me, this song reminds me of my Dad. I love my Dad. I always have, I always will. We don’t always get along, he hasn’t always been there for me, he has been far from the perfect father. But as Allen sings, “It didn’t matter if he let me down/I didn’t care about the lies/But all I knew was that he loved me very much/He was my hero in disguise” Frustrating, disappointing, infuriating, and hurtful as he may be, I will never stop loving my father.