Sheezus

The title track of Lily Allen's third album, the name is a tongue-in-cheek take on Kanye West's Yeezus record. Allen's assistant originally floated the title "Sheezus" as a joke and she ran with it. The singer told The Sun: "I can't really take full credit for naming the album Sheezus because my friend Amy said it is a joke. And I said, 'Actually, I like it.' Then I wrote this song around the album title."

Sheezus is Allen's first body of work since her musical hiatus in 2009 after the release of her second album It's Not Me, It's You. "I wanted the album to be called Sheezus before I had a song with that title," she told Rolling Stone. "The word inspired the song, and 'divas' rhymes with 'Sheezus.' I was really working backwards. Then I had to figure out a message. It starts off with me being quite scared about coming back. I'm really a sensitive person, and I take that on."

The song pokes fun at fellow pop stars Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Lorde, Katy Perry and Rihanna with Allen claiming she will steal the pop crown from them and become "Sheezus." Talking to Shortlist magazine, the singer opened up about name dropping her peers. "It's not supposed to be provocative and it's not attacking anyone, although it does namecheck a few people," Allen said. "It's about how girls are pitted against each other, unlike men…There seems to be a moral undertone when women are concerned that doesn't happen with men, and that's what that song is about. Stop this now [laughs]."