Fans have just noticed that Lily Allen once called her Emmy-nominated brother Alfie ‘lazy’ and jobless in a song and are screaming at the irony.
Lily, 34, sings about her little bro ‘wasting his life away’ watching TV and playing computer games (we’ve all been there) in her 2006 pop track, Alfie, from her album, Alright Still.
And after he was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Theon Greyjoy on Game Of Thrones, the whole thing just got pretty funny.
In the song, Lily sings: ‘Oh, Alfie get up it’s a brand new day/ I just can’t sit back and watch you waste your life away/ You need to get a job because the bills need to get paid/ Get off your lazy a***
‘Alfie, please use your brain/ Surely there’s some walls out there that you can go and spray/ I’m feeling guilty if I leading you astray.
‘Now, how the hell do you ever expect that you’ll get laid/ When all you do is stay and play on your computer games?’
Writer Jillian Sed pointed out the glorious turnaround Alfie, 32, has made on Twitter, and pretty much caused a full-on internet meltdown.
She tweeted: ‘Imagine your famous pop star sister writes a whole a** song literally named after you about what a stoner jobless loser you are.
‘And then you become one of the best characters on the most popular TV show in the world and get an Emmy nomination for it.’
The revenge must taste so sweet for Alfie, tbf.
One fan wrote: ‘I somehow never put it together that “Alfie” was about Alfie Allen and now i can’t stop laughing about what a brutal sibling own it was.’
Another added: ‘I had no idea this song existed and it is BRUTAL.
‘“Oh Alfie, I just can’t sit back and watch you waste your life away. You need to get a job because the bills need to get paid. Get off your lazy **, Alfie please use your brain.”’
Alongside the cascade of memes this revelation spawned, some fans praised Lily for trying to motivate her younger bro.
‘It appears to have worked,’ one user pointed out.
Alfie, who welcomed a daughter with his girlfriend last year, admitted he was utterly ‘shocked’ to be nominated for an Emmy.
‘We’ve got a group chat going, it’s going crazy at the moment,’ he told People.
‘I got a congratulations text and I just thought it was a group nomination, and I didn’t realize it was an individual one, which is crazy.’
He added: ‘I’m just ecstatic really, I can’t believe this. It really surprised me, I was not expecting it at all. I’m still in shock.’
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