Frank Kogan

I would say Lily Allen still says what she wants (rather than what her label wants, or what Max Clifford wants). There's an element of immaturity in both her case and Britney's I think - most of us grown-ups are bound by social rules (be they useful or restrictive) that stop us putting our foot in it/offending potential customers/pointing at someone in the street and shouting 'MUMMY WHY IS HE WALKING FUNNY?'. As cultural icons/opinion-makers/wannabee politicans, pop stars used to have more freedom in what they said and to whom. Now pop stars have to be businessmen/women first, otherwise they lose their precarious position on the ever-shrinking soapbox and have to make way for the label's latest signing. Luckily for Lily, her record sales depend entirely on the quantity of her gobbyness, not what she is actually saying.