URL Badman: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox song

| name = URL Badman

| cover = Lily Allen - URL Badman.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = [[Lily Allen]]

| album = [[Sheezus]]

| B-side = Bass Like Home

| released = {{start date|2014|7|13|df=y}}

| recorded = November 2013

| studio =

* Echo, Los Angeles

* Rocket, London

| genre =

* [[Dubstep]]

* [[synth-pop]]

| length = {{duration|m=3|s=39}}

| label = Parlophone

| writer =

| producer = Greg Kurstin

| prev_title = [[Our Time (Lily Allen song)|Our Time]]

| prev_year = 2014

| next_title = [[As Long as I Got You (Lily Allen song)|As Long as I Got You]]

| next_year = 2014

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|lDlofPAOZy0|"URL Badman"}}}}

"'''URL Badman'''" is a song by English [[singer-songwriter]] [[Lily Allen]], released on 13 July 2014 as the fourth single from her third [[studio album]], ''[[Sheezus]]'' (2014). The B-side to the single, "Bass Like Home", is an unofficial [[2014 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] song for England.

==Composition==

"URL Badman" is a [[dubstep]] and [[synth-pop]] song,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.idolator.com/7516997/lily-allen-sheezus-album-review|title=Lily Allen's 'Sheezus': Album Review|last=Lee|first=Christina|date=6 May 2014|website=Idolator|access-date=15 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/lily-allen-confronts-internet-trolls-in-url-badman-video-20140702|title=Lily Allen Confronts Internet Trolls in 'URL Badman' Video|last=Reed|first=Ryan|date=2 July 2014|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=15 June 2016}}</ref> with Allen rapping over "a surprisingly hip-hop beat".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theurbanalternative.net/2014/12/31/year-end-top-50-albums-of-2014-2-x-lily-allen-sheezus/|title=[Year-End] Top 50 Albums of 2014 (#2) X Lily Allen ''Sheezus''|date=31 December 2014|website=The Urban Alternative|access-date=15 June 2016}}</ref> In the song, there is an introductory dialogue between a boy named Alexander and his mother; Alex is in his room typing at a computer when his mother calls him for dinner. The main theme of the song is the Internet, and blog critics who "spend their life on the computer". Allen said she wrote the song after a blogger criticised the music video for "[[Hard out Here]]" because it used mostly black dancers. Joe Bishop, the writer who inspired the song, said in an opinion piece for ''[[The Guardian]]'' that his "first reaction was to feel flattered".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2014/jul/04/lily-allen-url-badman-attack-accused-racism|title=Lily Allen wrote a song about me because I accused her of racism|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=4 July 2014}}</ref>

"URL Badman" was released on 13 July 2014 by [[Parlophone]]. The B-side "Bass Like Home" contains her singing about the UK. "Bass Like Home" is not available in the US.

Allen performed the song on 24 May 2014 at the [[BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend]], after "[[Littlest Things]]" and before "[[Our Time (Lily Allen song)|Our Time]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ep3g9r/acts/ax9dgw#p01zs8f1|title=BBC – Radio 1's Big Weekend – Glasgow – Acts – Lily Allen|website=[[BBC]]}}</ref>

* '''Digital download'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/url-badman-single/id894601532|title=iTunes - Music - URL Badman - Single by Lily Allen|access-date=13 July 2014|website=[[iTunes Store]] UK}}</ref>

# "Bass Like Home" (Lily Allen & [[Kid Harpoon]]) – 3:59

"URL Badman" peaked at number 93 on the [[UK Singles Chart]]

== Charts ==

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

|+Chart performance for "URL Badman"

! scope="col"| Chart (2014)

! scope="col"| Peak<br />position

{{single chart|UK|93|date=20140720|rowheader=true|access-date=21 January 2020}}

{{Reflist}}{{Lily Allen}}

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[[Category:Parlophone singles]]