{"product_id":"alright_still","title":"Alright, Still","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlright, Still is the debut studio album by London singer Lily Allen, released July 13, 2006 on Regal Recordings. Recorded between 2004 and 2006 with a rotating cast of producers including Mark Ronson, Greg Kurstin, Blair MacKichan, and Future Cut, the eleven-track, thirty-seven-minute record had an unconventional path to release: most of the songs had been circulating on Allen's Myspace page before the album was formally announced, building a devoted online following that preceded and partly drove the record's commercial breakout. It debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, eventually achieving four-times platinum certification in the United Kingdom, gold in the United States, and over 2.5 million copies sold worldwide. Lead single \"Smile\" — a breezy reggae-pop song about revenge on a cheating ex, built on a sample of Desmond Dekker's \"Israelites\" — spent two weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart and established Allen as a distinctive new voice in British pop almost immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusically, the album sits at an unlikely and highly effective intersection of ska, reggae, R\u0026amp;B, and kitchen-sink pop — what Apple Music described as \"a sleek listen with clever samples, sonic nods to classic R\u0026amp;B, squelchy reggae and even scratchy grime beats.\" Allen's lyrics are conversational, bluntly funny, and pointedly autobiographical: \"LDN\" sketches the gap between London's glossy surface and its grittier underbelly over a bouncy music hall piano loop; \"Not Big\" dispatches a former partner with cheerfully brutal specificity; and \"Alfie,\" a gentle but exasperated address to her then-directionless younger brother (actor Alfie Allen), closes the record on a note of wry familial affection. Wikipedia notes the album earned a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album at the 50th Grammy Awards, and the record has since been recognized as a defining document of mid-2000s British pop — unflinching in its honesty, effortlessly catchy, and distinctly its own thing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Clear Vinyl","offer_id":53625517015354,"sku":"38476","price":43.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-18_at_3.04.38_PM_ee587b61-307e-4f75-a06a-9696509ae144.jpeg?v=1781809573","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/alright_still","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}