Lily Allen is getting candid about her headline-making new album West End mami, which seemingly features plenty of infidelity allegations against her husband David Harbour and documents the events that led to their split.
During a conversation with Interview Magazine, she spoke about the themes of the new album, and whether she meant it as revenge.
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When asked if she’s doing a “revenge tour,” Lily laughed.
“It isn’t. I mean, I wrote this record in 10 days in December and I feel very differently about the whole situation immediately. We all go through breakups and it’s always f–king brutal. But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it,” she said.
“That’s what’s fun about this record; it’s viscerally like going through the motions. At the time, I was really trying to process things and that’s great in terms of the album, but I don’t feel confused or angry immediately. I don’t need revenge.”
She also clarified that “some of it is based on truth and some of it is fantasy.”
“It’s not a cruel album. I don’t feel like I’m being mean. It was just the feelings I was processing at the time,” Lily went on to say.
Lily also explained the thought process behind making the album.
“There’s an album I love called A Grand Don’t Come for Free by The Streets, and it’s like a movie from start to finish. Each song can stand alone and make total sense, but together it’s more like a novel. I’ve always wanted to do that, and it just happened that way on this record. The night before I went into the studio, I wrote 18 track titles—no melodies, no lyrics. Nobody in the studio knew what was going on in my life. I got there, spent about two hours crying my 147 heart out, and then I was like, ‘We’re going to write an album based on some of these feelings.’ There were markers that I wanted to banger to give it a beginning, middle, and end.”
“It was very important to me that I didn’t sound like a victim, so I’d be like, ‘We have to change that line. It just sounds too, ‘Poor me.’’ I wanted it to feel brutal and tragic, but also empowering, that there was joy in being able to express it,” she noted.
Amusingly, she also revealed she’s got secret accounts.
“I have about five,” she confirmed before laughing and revealing: “One’s a fake Charli XCX account.”
“It’s more just spying on people. But then I get found out and then I get blocked and then I have to start a new one,” she explained
Find out what David Harbour‘s ex thinks of the album.
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