\u201cI found a shoebox full of handwritten letters from brokenhearted women,\u201d she sings on \u201cPu\u2013y Palace,\u201d a song about visiting a partner\u2019s secret hook-up apartment. \u201cSheets pulled off the bed \u2026 Long black hair, probably from the night before\/ Duane Reade bag with the handles tied\/ Sex toys \u2026 lube inside\/ Hundreds of Trojans \u2026 How\u2019d I get caught up in your double life?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lily Allen sings about cheating, sex toys and open marriage on her new album \u2014\u00a0and has said that her relationship with David Harbour was an inspiration even as she said it mixes fact and fiction.<\/p>\n
Social media went crazy over the weekend, with cyber sleuths picking apart the lyrics and Gwyneth Paltrow calling the record a \u201cmasterpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n
Page Six has reached out to Harbour for comment. He has not yet publicly spoken about the record, which is earning \u201cThe Fear\u201d singer the best reviews she\u2019s received in years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing about Lily, the thing that makes her so special is that she is a survivor,\u201d a London music insider who has worked with Allen told The Post \u2014\u00a0adding that \u201cLily is not an easy person, she\u2019d be the first to tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple met on celebrity dating site Raya and wed in Vegas in September 2020. They announced their split in February of this year.<\/p>\n
Allen posted a photo of the card Harbour sent her for her 2021 West End debut in the play, \u201c2:22 A Ghost Story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen, 40, has been careful over the past few days, saying the lyrics are a \u201cmixture of fact and fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n
She and Harbour, 50, met on the dating app Raya wed in 2020 and confirmed their split last February \u2014\u00a0two years after showing off their Cobble Hill home in a much-shared Architectural Digest story and video.<\/p>\n
That home has just gone up for sale for nearly $8 million<\/a>. Allen starts off the album singing about the fairy tale of setting up home in a Brooklyn brownstone \u201cI could never afford.\u201d\u00a0In the title song,<\/a>\u00a0things start to sour when she lands a role in a play on London\u2019s West End.<\/p>\n The singer is mom to daughters Ethel and Marnie.<\/p>\n Harbour remains close to his stepdaughters despite his wife\u2019s tell-all album and took them to Universal Studios in Orlando this past weekend.<\/p>\n In August 2021, Allen played Jenny in \u201c2: 22: A Ghost Story.\u201d<\/p>\n The song gives a one-sided conversation in which she seems to be told her partner wants an open marriage while she is away \u2014 and she reluctantly goes along with it because \u201cI want you to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n In real life, Allen posted on social media a photo of the message Harbour sent with flowers for her debut.<\/p>\n \u201cMy ambitious wife, these are bad luck flowers, \u2019cause if you get reviewed well in this play you will get all kinds of awards and I\u2019ll be miserable, your loving husband,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Reports named costume assistant Natalie Tippet as the real-life other woman, \u201cMadeline,\u201d that Allen sings about.<\/p>\n Allen told\u00a0The Sunday Times\u00a0<\/a>this week: \u201cThere are usually agreed-upon boundaries in relationships. But whether those boundaries are adhered to or not is becoming a grey area all of a sudden. Dating apps make people disposable \u2026 there\u2019s so much more to choose from \u2014 right in your pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n On the song \u201cMadeline,\u201d Allen sings, \u201cWe had an arrangement\/ Be discreet and don\u2019t be blatant\/ There had to be payment\/ It had to be with strangers.\u201d<\/p>\n She then details how that agreement was broken when the partner in the song got involved with a woman who wasn\u2019t a stranger \u2014\u00a0and sings on the song \u201cTennis\u201d of finding a text exchange with that woman on her partner\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n The Brooklyn brownstone Harbour and Allen shared went on the market for nearly $8 million Monday.<\/p>\n The Cobble Hill home was featured in Architectural Digest.<\/p>\n