Lily Allen Press Association

LILY Allen said her boyfriend gets "really, really angry" about the amount of time she spends on micro-blogging website Twitter.

The Smile singer is one of the site's biggest celebrity fans, regularly posting updates and pictures from tours and using it to give away tickets to her gigs.

During the Ashes cricket series the 24-year-old posted messages of support for the England team, and ended up as a guest on BBC radio's Test Match Special as a result.

But she told Absolute Radio her boyfriend, builder Sam Cooper, had little patience with her fondness for the site.

"My boyfriend gets really, really angry with me because he's just like 'I just want to spend some time with you, do we have to have one and a half million people in the room with us at one time?'"

"My boyfriend gets really, really angry with me because he's just like 'I just want to spend some time with you, do we have to have one and a half million people in the room with us at one time?'.

"I'm like 'Yes, shut up'."

The Smile singer also revealed she was keen on a new musical sound for her next album: country.

"Do you know that song by The Charlatans, A Man Needs To Be Told?" she asked Hometime presenter Geoff Lloyd.

"I love that song, the pedal-steel guitar noises in it, and I'd really like to make a country kind of Britpop record like that or something."

Allen said the record, which she wants to call Not Live From Memphis, would be the first country album "not recorded anywhere near America".

She is currently unable to enter the US after being refused entry and having her working visa revoked in 2007 over an incident outside a nightclub in London which resulted in a caution for assault.

She will probably need to bone up on her country music knowledge, though - she told Absolute she wanted T-Bone Walker to produce the album.

T-Bone Walker was a blues guitarist who died in 1975 - presumably Allen meant country guitarist and producer T-Bone Burnett.