So, it turns out Lily Allen has followed in the footsteps of her dad, Keith Allen, by putting out a World Cup song. Bass Like Home, an unofficial football track, is more club-ready than a Geordie Shore cast member at 9pm on a Saturday night, and couldn't sound any further than Keith Allen's 1998 song_Vindaloo_, a collaboration with Blur's Alex James under the name Fat Les.
That said, just like the parody song, it's brimming with references to English culture, such as 'If those feet in ancient time' (that's from Jerusalem, the song you might have had to sing in assemblies, which so many people back in the day wanted to have as our national anthem) and Rule Britannia, a song about the UK's naval superiority, which dates back to the Georgian times.
In the Kid Harpoon-produced track, she also namechecks some of Britain's great blokey icons: 'Who gave you Shakespeare?/Who gave you Lennon?/Who gave you Gazza?/Twisted your melons?' and some other images that are just about as British as fish and chips on a wet Tuesday in June, like the rave and free party culture of the early ’90s 'M25 vibes' and 'dressed in Moschino's, my Reebok classic dreams'.
'Ayia Napa and Ibiza ain't the same thing, so what you saying, there's no bass like home' she continues.
It doesn't make sense when you read it, but the lyrics somehow manage to fit in with the club-ready track, which sounds a bit like if Disclosure collaborated with Katy B, and so basically nothing like anything on Lily's latest album *Sheezus. *But that is no bad thing at all. A World Cup song that we can actually dance to? We're in. Plus, it's not sponsored by a yoghurt brand, so that's a bonus.
She announced the song by tweeting: 'My unofficial #worldcup song BASS LIKE HOME' along with a link to her Soundcloud page. It's now been deleted, but here it is again, catch it while it lasts:
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.