Sporting some of Allen’s typically biting lyrics, such as the
deliciously dry couplet “I want lots of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds/ I
hear people die while they’re trying to find them,” “Fear” finds Allen
reteaming with producer Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee) for a modern
electropop sound. The video, which
matches the song’s shimmery sounds with surreal images of the fancy life: dancing
presents and pastel balloons in a dreamy landscape where instead of hanging
your teddy bear out to dry on the clothesline outside your trailer, your teddy
bear has its own car in your plush crib.Though to be honest, chorus-boy servants and a topiary garden spelling
out your name sounds fantastic to me.
