Alfie (Lily Allen song)

Infobox Single
Name = Alfie


Caption = Japan-Only EP Cover
Artist = Lily Allen
Album = Alright, Still
A-side = "Shame for You"
Released = 5 March 2007 (UK)
11 July 2007 (Japan)
Format = CD single, digital download, 7" single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop, ska
Length = 2:46
Label = Regal
Writer = Lily Allen, Greg Kurstin
Producer = Greg Kurstin
Certification =
Last single = "Littlest Things"
(2006)
This single = "Shame for You"/"Alfie"
(2007)
Next single = "Oh My God"
(2007)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = single


Lower caption = Shame For You/Alfie single cover

"Alfie" is a song written by Lily Allen and Greg Kurstin, produced by Kurstin for Allen's debut album "Alright, Still". The song was released with "Shame for You" as a double A-sided single in 2007. It is about her younger brother, Alfie Owen-Allen, smoking cannabis in his room in addition to her commenting that he watches television and plays computer games too much.

When "Alright, Still" was released in July 2006, "Alfie" reached number seventy in the UK Official Download Chart. The double A-side entered the UK Singles Chart at number forty-four on digital downloads only, and then to number fifteen when combined with physical single releases. "Alfie" entered the Official UK download chart at number seventeen.

Alfie was released in Japan on the 11th of July as a Japan-only EP (which would chart on the albums charts). The EP features six songs and three music videos as a CD extra.

The song uses samples from Sandie Shaw's Eurovision winning song "Puppet on a String".

Music video

The video features a puppet playing Alfie, whom Lily takes drugs away from, as well as catching him masturbating over "Roxy and Babs get it on" pictures, and stopping him taking beer from the fridge. There are 2 versions of the video, in one when Alfie is smoking they show him sucking his finger, and the words "weed" and "THC" is censored, also when Lily take drugs away, in one she takes drugs in the other one she take a joystick away and when Alfie is masturbating in the censored it's showed "CENSORED" in red while in the other one they show the bed moving while he masturbates, and when Lily comes he stops and when she's gone, he follows. The video was released on iTunes in America on May 8.

Track listing

;CD Single
#"Shame for You"
#"Alfie" (explicit)
#"It's Only Love"

;7" Vinyl
#"Shame for You"
#"Alfie" (explicit)

;Digital download
*"Shame for You"
*"Shame for You" (live at Bush Hall)
*"Alfie" (explicit)
*"Alfie" (CSS remix)
*"Alfie" (live at Bush Hall)

;Japanese EP [http://www.emimusic.jp/international/release/200707/tocp61131.htm "EMI Music Japan | 商品情報"] . "EMI Music Japan". Retrieved July 10 2007.]
#"Alfie"
#"Smile"
#"Everybody's Changing" (Keane cover)
#"Nan You're A Window Shopper"
#"Alfie" (CSS remix)
#"Smile" (Mark Ronson remix)
#"Alfie" (banned version) (CD Extra Music Video)
#"LDN" (TYO version) (CD Extra Music Video)
#"Littlest Things" (CD Extra Music Video)

Charts

¹ "Alfie"/"Shame for You"
² "Alfie EP"

References

External links

* [http://www.videology-tv.com/viewclip.php?id=64#info Music Video for 'Alfie' + interview with director Sarah Chatfield]