Lily Allen is sending a message to her followers after dropping her album, West Finish Lady.
“Thanks for all of the love on West Finish Lady 🤍,” Allen, 40, wrote through Instagram on Sunday, October 26, alongside a sequence of pictures that includes the singer celebrating the album.
Allen confirmed to Vogue on Monday, October 20, that West Finish Lady is “impressed by what went on within the relationship” together with her estranged husband, David Harbour. “That's to not say that it's all gospel,” she added. (The pair separated in 2024 after 4 years of marriage.)
Because the launch of West Finish Lady — her first album in seven years — Allen has detailed her lyrical inspiration.
“Intimacy is inherently messy. There are normally agreed-upon boundaries in relationships, however whether or not these boundaries are adhered to or not is changing into a gray space unexpectedly,” Allen instructed The Occasions of London in a Saturday, October 25, profile. “Relationship apps make individuals disposable and that results in the concept in case you are not pleased, there's a lot extra to select from proper in your pocket.”
In West Finish Lady, Allen insinuates that her associate — whom followers are presuming is the Stranger Issues actor, 50 — was untrue throughout their marriage. (Harbor has not addressed the claims. His rep didn't reply to Us Weekly's request for remark.)
“So I learn your textual content, and now I remorse it / I can't get my head spherical the way you've been enjoying tennis,” Allen sings within the “Tennis” refrain. “If it was simply intercourse, I wouldn't be jealous / You received't play with me and who's Madeline?”
In a observe named after Madeline, Allen particulars confronting the lady in regards to the alleged infidelity.
“I do know none of that is your fault / Messaging you feels form of assaultive,” she sings. “Noticed your textual content, that's how I came upon / Inform me the reality and his motives.”
Allen, for her half, revealed to The Occasions that Madeline is a “fictional character” and a assemble of a number of individuals, somewhat than a illustration of 1 particular individual.
“I simply really feel we live in actually fascinating instances — when it comes to how we outline intimacy and monogamy, individuals being disposable or not,” she mentioned. “The way in which we're being intimate with one another is altering as people. Plenty of younger girls will not be discovering the thought of marriage or perhaps a long-term relationship that enticing any extra.”
Allen continued, “I don't know [that] it's essentially dangerous. Plenty of individuals from my mother and father' technology stayed collectively endlessly and had been depressing. You didn't have countless alternative so you might have labored at one thing tougher. However now you don't must.”
One in all David Harbour's former companions is seemingly providing her help to Lily Allen after the discharge of the pop star's new breakup album, West Finish Lady. “West Finish Lady 24.10.25,” Allen just lately captioned a sequence of promotional pictures onto her Instagram. Alison Sudol, who dated 50-year-old Harbour earlier than his marriage to 40-year-old Allen, celebrated […]
Harbour, for his half, has relayed that he plans to stay tight-lipped about his relationship with Allen. In April, the actor instructed GQ, “I'm protecting of the individuals and the fact of my life. There's no use in that type of participating [with rumors] as a result of it's all based mostly on hysterical hyperbole.”
Allen was beforehand in a relationship with Sam Cooper, whom she wed in 2011. The exes break up in 2018 after welcoming daughters Ethel, now 13, and Marnie, now 12.
West Finish Lady is out now.
