Lily Allen has admitted that she turned down the chance to join the Band Aid 30 line-up because she thought the concept was “smug.”
The 29-year-old was asked to sing alongside the likes of Ellie Goulding and One Direction on Bob Geldof's charity single, Do They Know Its Christmas? but Lily admitted to the Mail on Sunday that she didn't feel part of that “success club.”
“It's difficult to give an explanation why I didn't do it without sounding like a complete c**t,” she said. “I prefer to do my charitable bit by donating actual money and not being lumped in with a bunch of people like that. It's like the ‘;success club' and I'm not really in that club. I don't think I'm above it all – I'm way below it. But there's something a bit smug about it.”
Lily has nothing against Bob Geldof but finds the band "smug" (FameFlynet)
The track, which was released last Sunday, has already become the best selling single of 2014 and has raised more than a million pounds to help combat the Ebola crisis, but Lily isn't the first celeb to speak out against the charity single.
On Saturday, Emeli Sande spoke out against the hit and said that a “whole new song is required.” Although she appears on this year's single, she took to Twitter to announce that she had felt uncomfortable with the lyrics and had rewritten rewritten some of the lines - but they failed to make the final cut.
Fuse ODG also criticised the track and revealed he had turned down the chance to join the line-up due to it's controversial lyrics. Speaking on Radio 1's Newsbeat last week, he explained, "I decided not to do it because I thought it wasn't in line with the new African movement... I didn't really agree with the lyrics, the lyrical content of the song. I felt like it really could have been different.”
