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Does Lily Allen Hint at Cheating in West End Girl? Untangling Her New Album's Lyrics
Lily Allen's album 'West End Girl' uses personal experiences of infidelity and emotional abuse to create a raw narrative of her marriage collapse, marking her return after seven years.
- Releasing West End Girl on October 24, Lily Allen, a British pop star, presents a 14-track album that details her marriage collapse and marks her first release in seven years.
- Earlier this year, Lily Allen revealed she entered a treatment centre for emotional turmoil from her split and confirmed to Vogue on October 20 that the album reflects relationship struggles.
- In 'West End Girl', almost half the track features a phone call where her husband asks to sleep with other women, and songs like 'Madeline' and 'Pussy Palace' describe payments for sex and discoveries in the West Village.
- Released with no singles, Lily Allen's West End Girl earned a four-star review from NME while David Harbour's representative did not respond to requests for comment.
- Amid a confessional pop boom, West End Girl blends dance, funk and Spanish guitar, written over a 10-day period, showcasing Allen’s growth and its raw, personal tone.
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Lily Allen’s West End Girl is a perfect exercise in unsparing honesty
Younger artists like Charli XCX have mastered what Allen owned first: a kind of ironic detachment that makes any suggestion of female artists being ‘hysterical’ much harder. With her new album, the pop star is so back, says Roisin O’Connor
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Lily Allen Calls David Harbour A Cheating "Sex Addict" On Her Brutal New Album
Dave Benett/Dave Benett Collection/Getty ImagesEver since reports came out in early 2025 that Lily Allen and David Harbour were ending their four-year marriage, the former couple has avoided addressing the topic. But that all changed in a major way on Oct. 24, when Allen released her incredibly specific new album West End Girl. The 14 cutting tracks do everything short of naming Harbour, as Allen details the dissolution of a marriage that had be…
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