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Nia eviscerates this truly shitty Lily Allen article in NYT:

Ultimately, this is less an article about Lily Allen and more a Collection of Things Melena Ryzik Thought While Interviewing a Celebrity She is Sort of ‘Mean Girls’ about: the restaurant they go to is “scene-y,” Lily “walked in as if she would turn a few heads,” Lily “really does want to be rich. Or rather, she has to be.” And Ryzik seems to take particular delight in proving Lily wrong: A paragraph about how Lily Allen and Friends was helpful when Lily’s life was in a tailspin (Melena’s words, although she attributes them to Lily) ends flatly with, “The show was not renewed.” (Is that even correct? Last I heard, the BBC had decided to pick it up after all.) And when Lily claims that her Wikipedia entry is riddled with lies (Melena’s words again, we’ll never know what Lily actually said about it) Melena devotes a whole paragraph — and several quotes from Lily! this is what Melena wants to record Lily admitting! — to Lily looking through the entry and finding three facts in it which are true. Three facts she finds which aren’t true are dismissed in half a sentence at the end of the paragraph — no quotes from Lily on that, of course — and followed up with this gem:

Ms. Allen’s reality, it turns out, is largely of her own making.

Fucking ouch. What? This is the conclusion you draw from Lily Allen discovering that her Wikipedia entry is not as inaccurate as she thought? How? Melena Ryzik’s reality, it turns out, requires no factual evidence or explanation.

Still ambivalent about Lily’s new album, but holy jeez this person should NOT be allowed access to celebrities for profiling purposes EVER. What a waste.