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According to singer Joss Stone, Lily Allen is more a “personality” than she is a musician, and Stone went on to dismiss Allen’s online adversary to illegal filesharing.
“[Lily] needs to sell records because she’s not a singer,” Stone told the Press Association, “and that’s not an offence to her because I think that she knows that too.”
Stone believes that she is “making real music [that] people [will] come to the show” for, whereas with an “artist like Lily… it’s about the track, their personality and their celebrity”, said the femaile singer.

These comments come after Allen publicly decried illegal downloaders, writing on her blog: “Filesharing is a disaster, as it’s making it harder and harder for new acts to emerge.”
Stone is famous for her own unconventional climb to fame; after being discovered on the BBC’s Star for a Night, Stone was signed to a major label before – as the Guardian puts it – going “rogue.” Stone begged to be released from her EMI contract after a falling out over her fourth album – though the dispute was eventually resolved and the album released. She still complains of having to ask “for approval on every single section of everything that [I] do.”

Of Lily Allen’s quest to stop downloaders, Stone said: “She’s not going to win that fight. None of us will win that fight. So let’s just accept it and see it as something that can be beautiful and might change music for the better. It might sort the weeds from the flowers.”

Stone doesn’t believe that musicians should seek out enormous fortunes to match their fame, but rather should just support themselves: “Who said that musicians have to be millionaires? Who made this a rule? We don’t need that much money. We only need enough to make music, eat and go on tour.”
It should be noted that Stone’s EMI contract is worth a reported £7.5 million.