Lilly Allen pulling an Arctic Monkey?

I wrote this post initially just for my personal blog, but I thought that this might be interesting for the ccMixter people as well....

I just discovered Lilly Allen (via Bler) and I like here songs a lot. Too bad she's using the awful MySpace (see also 'Simuze at myspace and I got scared..').

Anyway, she manages to combine hiphop, ska and - I guess - dancehall in an interesting mix. Seems to me she could be the female version of the Streets. The way she seems to become more popular would hint at the something like the Arctic Monkeys did (read more about that at Wired), but this site claims that she's already part of the music industry:

"You’d expect that (Arctic Monkeys) mp3s would have leaked all over the net, by now, for your iPodding pleasure. Not the case. Perhaps because she already has a major label deal – she’s with EMI’s Parlophone, and recently spent some time in the States recording her album (she stopped by East Village Radio to guest-DJ “Authentic Shit”) – they’re not looking for that kind of (Arctic Monkeys) exposure."

So it looks to me that some record companies are getting 'it'. Almost, that is. They understand that using the Net for promotion and causing a buzz can help them selling it to the masses, but they are releasing just some mp3's for a limited time period and than remove them. Kinda silly if you consider the fact that you can't remove anything after it has been published on the Net. Also it seems Lilly (and her producers) seem not to care about remixing, which is a shame because Lilly's songs are defined by samples and can be considered as remixes themselves. I wonder what would happened if Lilly (and her record company) would allow and actively promote remixing and sharing?

Interesting developments nonetheless and I'm curious to see what happens next..