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"Lily Allen has claimed that record labels are scared of taking risks. The singer argued that the music industry is more likely to push commercially obvious songs as singles to sell an album, rather than experimenting with alternative music.  &amp;quot;What pisses me off about music right now is the lack of support for being experimental and brave,&amp;quot; Allen told this week&amp;#039;s issue of NME. &amp;quot;People just want to be formulaic and predictable. &amp;quot;Record companies and A&amp;amp;R people are just absolutely terrified of taking risks at the moment - and that&amp;#039;s quite frustrating as an artist, when it comes to picking singles, because they only ever want to go for the watered-down stuff.&amp;quot; She added: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not saying that those songs can&amp;#039;t have a good pop sensibility about them, but personally, I like to think of myself as being something a little bit more than that.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s sad to watch the tracks that I think are stronger having to sit back on the album while the poppier, more commercial ones are driving it.&amp;quot; Allen is expected to release her third studio album later this year, after premiering new single &amp;#039;Hard Out Here&amp;#039; back in November. The track peaked at number nine in the UK, while her cover of Keane&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Somewhere Only We Know&amp;#039; for John Lewis topped the chart. Watch the music video for Lily Allen&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Hard Out Here&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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