Lily Allen. I don't get her.

I was watching the annual Jools Holland new year's eve broadcast on the BBC last night with my wife and there was a right mixed bag of performers on there.

It's always a good way to see in the new year if you're at home on new year's eve.

Anyway, one of the performers was Lily Allen. She's "famous" in the UK but I'm not sure why. She's the daughter of fairly well-known comedian and actor Keith Allen so that's already a strong plus for the media, an angle for a story you might say when her fledgling singing career was starting off.

She has a recording contract and has released some records in recent times. She sang a couple of times last night and although her style is simple it's just not my thing.

Listening I found it hard to put out of my mind some of the daft things she has said in the media in recent weeks.

I'm not sure why she felt the need to say some of the stuff she did but she went ahead and did it anyway. For example she said that people who buy Paris Hilton's CD should be killed.

I have a problem with this whole 'people I don't like should be killed' idea. Shame on the news media for even picking that story up and printing it really.

She explained it away recently by claiming that she is like a gay man trapped in a woman's body, hence her tendency to be bitchy.

I understand that she is fond of bashing people on her myspace page too.

What happened to recording artists letting the music do their talking? Anyway, she seems to be well liked by folks in the UK. I'm just not sure why.