Media studies: Lily Allen analysis. Ive been taking a look at Lily Allen, focusing on the way her biggest fans can communicate with her, via the websites.

 After looking at her face book and her my space I noticed that one is more focussed on her as a person, where as the other is directed at her as an artist, although I think this is a good thing, I think you can see how she hasn’t produced either of them on her own, the directing and production company behind her (EMI) were most likely to have controlled what went on and what didn’t, to make it appeal more too fans. Unfortunately about internet sites, you never know if its actually the real person talking to you/others or not, at one point in a newspaper, lily Allen had apparently been on twitter after panicking when a member of her backing band disappeared during a tour stop in Serbia. The article consisted of:

“The pop star took to her Twitter page to plead with users for help in finding the keyboardist when he went missing hours before they were due to take the stage at Europe's EXIT Festival on Thursday (09Jul09).

She wrote, "HELP! I've lost my keyboardist and friend Eddie Jenkins, last seen last night at Hotel Park in Novi Sad, Serbia. Not only have we got to play a gig tonight, but I'm really worried about him. If anyone knows where he is, get him to call me."

And her Internet investigation worked - minutes later a relieved Allen updated her page to tell fans, "Eddie has been found, thanks for your help!"

Her pages also have tour date information listed, as well as her idols and plenty of information about lily and her albums. She also has a video diary and a site which is dedicated to her TV show, listing information about what’s happening soon on there, and giving details on competitions that you can enter, in addition too bands they’ve played/ are playing and celebrity guests.

Something else I noticed was on twitter, with what she posts is that she seems a lot less bubbly and not as chatty as on face book or myspace ; “hello, there is a meeting today in London where artists are meeting to discuss piracy. My job done”. This seems quite negative, and shows her lack of intelligence in my opinion, but it could just be seen as her being more mature and at least she’s filling her watchers in on what’s going on in her life at the moment, and not just focussing it around her.

In conclusion lily’s fan interactivity seems too sometimes contradict itself in some ways, but she lets them know what’s happening in her life, which gives fans the feeling they have a more personal know about her life. I feel the websites are however over perfected, and that its bound not too be her speaking the majority of the time, after all not only has she got a busy career, but choosing to interact with her fans over a holiday or a shopping spree is unlikely. I do think that her producers and record company are doing a good job of getting her better publicity, and giving her more of a broader range of fans, as the sites are worldwide. Its just getting the target market right in my opinion for them, and making sure they make money, no matter how much they re create and shape her, it has to suit “the criteria”.