Fuck You (Lily Allen song)

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"Fuck You"
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Single by Lily Allen
from the album It's Not Me, It's You
Released10 July 2009 (2009-07-10)
Genre Dance-pop
Length3:39
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Greg Kurstin
Lily Allen singles chronology
"Not Fair"
(2009)		"Fuck You"
(2009)		"22"
(2009)
Audio sample

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Fuck You"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [39] Gold35,000^
Belgium (BEA) [40] Gold15,000*
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [41] Gold5,153 [41]
France (SNEP) [42] Gold150,000*
Italy (FIMI) [43] Gold10,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [44] Gold15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [45] Platinum600,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

The song was chosen as the theme song for the TV programme Periodismo para todos (Spanish: Journalism for Everyone) in Argentina. Periodismo para todos is a controversial Argentine television program that has been labelled as investigative journalism. [46] The song was chosen because it had been used in a telenovela of the state-owned TV Pública, in a satirical Spanish lyrics version. The opening of the show features photos of the audience making the "fuck you" sign. [47] The song has a medium rotation on radio stations like La 100, from Buenos Aires (owned by Grupo Clarín, which also belongs Canal 13 who broadcast Periodismo para todos weekly). However, it was the second most popular song of 2012 in the chart show TUS 25 (Spanish: Your 25) of Tu Dial, [48] an Argentinian web radio station based in Mexico.

The song was featured in the pilot of ABC's Suburgatory . [49]

The song was performed by The Sockapellas in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect , singing "Eff You" instead.

The song is featured in the 2014 film Love, Rosie and in the 2016 film Bridget Jones's Baby .

Finnish actor Antti Holma covered the song in Finnish in 2016, with the title "V-laulu" ("The V Song"). [50]

The song is featured in the 2020 video game Watch Dogs: Legion . [51]

The song is performed by the character Janae in the 2021 series, One of Us Is Lying (adaptation of the bestselling Karen M McManus book).

On 25 June 2022, Allen performed the song with Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury Festival 2022. They dedicated the song to the five conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices—Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh—who formed the majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization to overrule Roe v. Wade the day before, ending the right to an abortion under the federal constitution. [52] [53]

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