Lily Allen is sending a message to her followers after dropping her album, West Finish Woman.
“Thanks for all of the love on West Finish Woman 🤍,” Allen, 40, wrote by way of Instagram on Sunday, October 26, alongside a collection of photographs that includes the singer celebrating the album.
Allen confirmed to Vogue on Monday, October 20, that West Finish Woman is “impressed by what went on within the relationship” along 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 Woman — her first album in seven years — Allen has detailed her lyrical inspiration.
“Intimacy is inherently messy. There are often agreed-upon boundaries in relationships, however whether or not these boundaries are adhered to or not is turning into a gray space hastily,” Allen informed The Instances of London in a Saturday, October 25, profile. “Courting apps make folks disposable and that results in the concept that in case you are not blissful, there’s a lot extra to select from proper in your pocket.”
In West Finish Woman, Allen insinuates that her accomplice — 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 taking part in 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 monitor named after Madeline, Allen particulars confronting the lady concerning 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 Instances that Madeline is a “fictional character” and a assemble of a number of folks, reasonably than a illustration of 1 particular individual.
“I simply really feel we live in actually attention-grabbing instances — by way of how we outline intimacy and monogamy, folks being disposable or not,” she mentioned. “The way in which we’re being intimate with one another is altering as people. Plenty of younger ladies usually are not 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 unhealthy. Plenty of folks from my dad and mom’ technology stayed collectively without end and had been depressing. You didn’t have infinite selection so you’ll have labored at one thing more durable. However now you don’t should.”
One among David Harbour’s former companions is seemingly providing her assist to Lily Allen after the discharge of the pop star’s new breakup album, West Finish Woman. “West Finish Woman 24.10.25,” Allen just lately captioned a collection 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 informed GQ, “I’m protecting of the folks and the truth of my life. There’s no use in that type of partaking [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 Woman is out now.
