"Fuck You" is a song by English singer Lily Allen

Lily Allen

Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper , better known as Lily Allen, is an English recording artist and fashion designer. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative...

 from her second album It's Not Me, It's You. It is her third international single.

Song information

The song originally appeared on Allen's Myspace

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 page in 2008 alongside the songs "I Could Say" and "I Don't Know" (now known as "The Fear

The Fear (song)

"The Fear" is a song by British recording artist Lily Allen from her second studio album, It's Not Me, It's You. Written by Allen and Greg Kurstin, the song was released as the lead single of the album...

") under the title "Guess Who Batman". Despite its titular reference to the Caped Crusader

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, according to NME

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and Rolling Stone

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magazines the song is a George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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 protest, while the Urban Review states that it was originally inspired by the right-wing British National Party

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, adding Allen now "feels the track is relevant everywhere now so has removed a particular target." At the 2009 Glastonbury Festival

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 prior to performing the song, Allen made reference to the elections to the European parliament

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 that had commenced three weeks earlier in which the British National Party gained their first ever representative seats, citing this as a reason to sing the song. The song was written by Allen and Greg Kurstin

Greg Kurstin

Gregory Allen "Greg" Kurstin is an award-winning American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In 2009 Kurstin received a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year. That same year he won three Ivor Novello awards for his work with Lily Allen, including Songwriters of the Year for "The Fear"...

. Allen wrote:
At the 2010 Wireless Concert in Hyde Park, London, England, Allen sang the song after members of the crowd were throwing beer and cider bottles in the air and fans were getting hit by them.

Chart performance

The song made its chart debut at number 37 on the Canadian Top 100 on 28 February 2009 despite not being released as an actual single. The song also entered the US Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 at number 68 on the same week, being her third song on entry.

In the UK the song made its debut on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 at number 154 on the strength of digital downloads due to the video having a lot of airplay on UK music channels despite not being released as an official single there.

In the Netherlands

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 the song was released as the album's second single and debuted on the Dutch Top 40

Dutch Top 40

The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...

 on 18 April 2009 at number 23 and has peaked at number three. The song reached number one in Belgium

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 on 6 June 2009. It has also peaked at number four in Finland

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 and Norway

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, number eighteen in Sweden

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, number nine in France

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, number 23 in Australia

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 and number 16 in Switzerland

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.

Music video

A music video for the song was posted on the official Parlophone

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 YouTube

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 page on 15 June 2009. EMI hired the French production company Frenzy Paris who in turn hired the art collective AB/CD/CD and the post-production company "Firm". The video is shot from Allen's point of view (she can be seen using a polaroid

Instant film

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 she takes of herself). She is seen to be making the journey from her hotel room to a television studio. Throughout the video, Allen warps the shape and size of her surroundings using her hands and her own perspective; for example, by moving her hands apart she stretches the Eiffel Tower and enlarges a man's afro

Afro

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 hairstyle.

Track listing

• UK CD Single

1. "Fuck You" (Explicit) – 3:42
2. "Fuck You" (Clean) – 3:40

• French CD Single

1. "Fuck You" (Explicit) – 3:42
2. "The Fear" (The Count (Hervè) & Lily Face The Fear Remix) – 4:21

• American CD Single

1. "Fuck You" (Explicit) - 3:42
2. "Fuck You" (Ralphi Rosario & Craig J Club Mix)
3. "Fuck You" (Ralphi Rosario Dub)
4. "Fuck You" (Rich Morel's Extended Vocal Mix)
5. "Fuck You" (Rich Morel's Official Dub Mix)
6. "Fuck You" (Manhattan Clique Two Fingers Club Mix)
7. "Fuck You" (Manhattan Clique Dub Mix)
8. "Fuck You" (Ralphi Rosario & Craig J Mixshow)
9. "Fuck You" (The Boy's Crisis Remix)
10. "Fuck You" (Manhattan Clique "Now Watch This" Electropop Radio Edit)
11. "Fuck You" (Ralphi Rosario & Craig J Radio Mix)
12. "Fuck You" (Rich Morel's Radio Edit)

• UK Digital Download

1. "Fuck You" (Explicit) - 3:42
2. "Not Fair" (Radio Edit) - 3:03
3. "Not Fair" (Style Of Eye Remix) - 6:19
4. "The Fear" - 3:26
5. "The Fear" (The Count (Hervè) & Lily Face The Fear Remix) – 4:21
6. "Why" - 3:16
7. "Everyone's At It" - 3:22
8. "Mr Blue Sky" (Acoustic) - 4:18

• French Digital Download

1. "Fuck You" (Explicit) - 3:42
2. "Why" - 3:16
3. "Not Fair" (Style Of Eye Remix) - 6:19
4. "The Fear" (The Count (Hervè) & Lily Face The Fear Remix) – 4:21
5. "Not Fair" (Radio Edit) - 3:03

• American Digital Download

1. "Fuck You" (Clean Radio Edit) - 3:41
2. "Fag Hag" - 2:55
3. "Kabul Shit" - 3:45
4. "Womanizer" (Acoustic Version) - 3:31

• American Remix Digital Download

1. "Fuck You" (Ralphi Rosario & Craig J Klub) – 7:46
2. "Fuck You" (Manhattan Clique Two Fingers Club Mix) – 6:21
3. "Fuck You" (Rich Morel's Extended Vocal Mix) – 5:48
4. "Fuck You" (Manhattan Clique 'Now Watch This' Electropop Radio) – 3:32
5. "Fuck You" (Ralphi Rosario Dub) – 9:48

Cover versions

A excerpt from the track was sung by Lorie

Lorie

Laure Pester, professionally known as Lorie, is a French singer. Her fame can be attributed to producer, songwriter and composer Johnny Williams and her father–manager Dominique Pester...

 and Natasha St-Pier

Natasha St-Pier

Natasha St Pier is a Canadian pop singer.-Career:Natasha St Pier released her first album, Émergence, in 1996, produced by composer/producer Steve Barakatt...

 at the 2010 charity

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 concert by Les Enfoires

Les Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés , is the name given to the singers and performers in the yearly charity concert for the Restaurants du Cœur .-History:...

, entitled La crise de nerfs.

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	23
Austrian Singles Chart	12
Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...  (Flanders)	1
Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop 40 Ultratop 40 singles, often just Ultratop 40, is the weekly chart of best-selling singles in Wallonia and Brussels Capital Region, the french-speaking parts of Belgium. Its equivalent covering the Flanders region is Ultratop 50. Both charts are produced and published by the Ultratop organization...  (Wallonia)	2
Canadian Hot 100 Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...	37
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	3
European Hot 100	23
Finnish Singles Chart	4
French Physical Singles Chart	14
French Digital Singles Chart	8
German Singles Chart	49
Italian Singles Chart	9
Norwegian Singles Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...	4
Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	18
Swiss Singles Chart	5
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	153
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	68
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2009)	Position
Italian Singles Chart	66
Swiss Singles Chart	28

Certifications

Country	Certification	Sales
Australia	Gold	35,000+
Belgium	Gold	20,000+
Finland	Gold	5,153
France	Gold	150,000+
Italy	Gold	15,000+
Switzerland	Gold	15,000+