Video: Lily Allen- The Fear (Live At Tonight Show With Jay Leno 02/16/2009) HD

Antony and the Johnsons perform "Aeon" on The Late Show with David Letterman. M. Ward performs "Never Had Nobody Like You" on The Late Show with David Letterman Lily ALlen performs The Fear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Lily Allen The Fear live@ The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

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• Lily Allen - The Fear (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 02-16-2009)

Lily Allen was in glamorous pin-up mode last night when she performed "The Fear" from her new album, It's Not Me, It's You, on Leno . The song seems pretty drab and flat when performed here (and arguably on wax), just like it did when she did it on the Today Show . But she does have a pretty good time doing the song, and she spends some (maybe too much) time mugging for the cameras. Leno comes on at the end with Kevin Bacon, who looks crispy and delicious (ha, pun), and, uh....yeah. I really [...]

As noted after Lily's stop at Bowery Ballroom last week, a good chunk of It's Not Me, It's You is given over to directly textual, emotional confessionals wrapped in melancholic (and occasionally drab) electro-pop garb. If she wasn't so charming, those stretches in the show would have drowned in a sorry sea of boring/sad. But she is charming, and It's Not Me, It's You has some moments where the synths meet the cheek in full stride. First single "The Fear" is an example, and a winning shift away from Alright, Still [...]