"Hard out Here" is a song by English singer Lily Allen, released on 17 November 2013 as the lead single from her third studio album, Sheezus (2014).

Musically, "Hard out Here" is a synth-pop song with lyrics revolving around "body image pressures and misogyny in the entertainment industry".

According to The Wire, the title is a "thinly veiled reference" to Three 6 Mafia's Academy Award-winning 2005 song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp".

The video received positive reviews from most critics, but also sparked minor controversy over the ethnicity of the backing dancers.

Allen and Amy Winehouse were credited with starting a process that led to the media-proclaimed "year of the women" in 2009 that has seen five female artists making music of "experimentalism and fearlessness" nominated for the Mercury Prize.

The following year, she opened a fashion rental shop named Lucy in Disguise with her sister Sarah,[3] followed by the 2011 launching of her own record label.

In these three countries, it was used as the title song for the eighth season of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, the German-language version of the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.

The video received positive feedback on Twitter from celebrities Adele, Ellie Goulding, Tinie Tempah, Rebecca Ferguson, Professor Green,[citation needed] Foxes,[21] Caitlin Moran, Lena Dunham,[22] Lauren Laverne, Example, Piers Morgan, Kesha, Jake Shears, Charli XCX, Mark Ronson,[citation needed] and Pink.

Allen responded to this with a long message called "Privilege, Superiority and Misconceptions", in which she refused to apologise, "because I think that would imply that I'm guilty of something".

"[25] In response to criticism by "misogynistic, hipster, male bloggers", Allen wrote the song "URL Badman".

She told BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac that her intention behind the video was to make a feminist statement but "I was guilty of thinking ― assuming ― that there was a one-size-fits-all where feminism is concerned.

"[28] On 14 November 2013, Allen made her debut live performance of "Hard out Here" in the YoYos pod at the Red Bull Revolutions in Sound event on the London Eye.

[citation needed] The song was chosen as the opening theme of the eighth season of the German reality television series Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, which premiered on 17 January 2014, the same date as the single's release in Germany.