{"id":348260,"date":"2025-12-14T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348260\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:38:08","slug":"watch-lily-allen-perform-sleepwalking-bring-out-dakota-johnson-for-madeline-on-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/348260\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lily Allen Perform \u201cSleepwalking,\u201d Bring Out Dakota Johnson for \u201cMadeline\u201d on Saturday Night Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, December 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4842-lily-allen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Allen<\/a> returned to Saturday Night Live as musical guest for the first time since 2007. The British pop star performed \u201cSleepwalking\u201d from her new album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/lily-allen-west-end-girl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West End Girl<\/a> and brought out Dakota Johnson to play the titular other woman in \u201cMadeline.\u201d She also appeared as herself in a sketch themed around West End Girl\u2019s title track. Watch Allen on SNL below.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Night Live\u2019s 51st season has featured performances from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-bad-bunny-host-doja-cat-perform-aaahh-men-and-gorgeous-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doja Cat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sabrina-carpenter-performs-manchild-and-nobodys-son-on-saturday-night-live-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/brandi-carlile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandi Carlile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/dijon-announced-as-saturday-night-live-musical-guest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Dean<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-dijon-perform-higher-and-baby-medley-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dijon<\/a>, among others. <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-bad-bunny-host-doja-cat-perform-aaahh-men-and-gorgeous-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a> hosted the season premiere. Next week\u2019s episode\u2014the last of the calendar year\u2014will see Ariana Grande <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/ariana-grande-cher-lily-allen-announced-for-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">host<\/a> SNL for the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-ariana-grande-host-stevie-nicks-perform-edge-of-seventeen-and-the-lighthouse-on-snl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second time<\/a> in as many years alongside musical guest Cher.<\/p>\n<p>With less than a <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lily-allen-releasing-first-new-album-in-7-years-west-end-girl-this-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">week\u2019s notice<\/a>, Allen shared West End Girl in October. She\u2019ll tour the album across the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lily-allen-announces-uk-tour-for-west-end-girl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Kingdom<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lily-allen-announces-2026-north-american-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North America<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n<p>Read Pitchfork\u2019s review of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4842-lily-allen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West End Girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, December 13, Lily Allen returned to Saturday Night Live as musical guest for the first time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,427,446],"class_list":{"0":"post-348260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}