{"id":103269,"date":"2025-10-29T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/103269\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:02:14","slug":"i-dont-feel-confused-or-angry-now-i-dont-need-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/103269\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t feel confused or angry now. I don\u2019t need revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lily Allen<\/a> has insisted that \u2018West End Girl\u2019<\/a> is \u201cnot a cruel album\u201d, saying she is no longer \u201cconfused or angry\u201d about the circumstances that inspired the record.<\/p>\n

The singer-songwriter released her long-awaited fifth LP last Friday (October 24), just four days after announcing the \u201cvulnerable\u201d surprise project<\/a>. It follows on from Allen\u2019s 2018 album \u2018No Shame\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018West End Girl\u2019, which comprises 14 songs, was written and recorded in just 10 days following the breakdown of the star\u2019s marriage to Stranger Things<\/a> actor David Harbour, after he allegedly cheated on her.<\/p>\n

The contents of the record have made headlines, with Allen having opened up about what had led to the couple\u2019s split on the collection. \u201cIt\u2019s very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how we all navigate them. It\u2019s a story,\u201d she said previously, also calling it \u201ca mixture of fact and fiction\u201d.<\/p>\n

She has since explained that the LP had been inspired by her \u201cdeep-rooted issues with rejection and abandonment\u201d<\/a> after her divorce. Elsewhere, a woman who is said to have inspired Allen\u2019s new song \u2018Madeline\u2019 has come forward<\/a> following her affair with Harbour. However, Allen revealed in an interview with The Sunday Times<\/a> that \u2018Madeline\u2019 was a fictional character who was a \u201cconstruct of others\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now, in a new conversation with Interview<\/a> magazine, Allen denied that \u2018West End Girl\u2019 was a \u201crevenge\u201d album, and explained that she was now in a more positive headspace than when she created it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I wrote this record in 10 days in December and I feel very differently about the whole situation now,\u201d she told the publication. \u201cWe all go through breakups and it\u2019s always fucking brutal. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you\u2019re in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LilyLily Allen. CREDIT: Charlie Denis<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s fun about this record; it\u2019s viscerally like going through the motions. At the time, I was really trying to process things and that\u2019s great in terms of the album, but I don\u2019t feel confused or angry now. I don\u2019t need revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if she was telling a story with \u2018West End Girl\u2019, Allen reiterated that \u201csome of it is based on truth and some of it is fantasy\u201d. The interviewer also praised the emotional track \u2018Sleepwalking\u2019 and asked whether it would be released as a single.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad to hear that, because record labels always want the upbeat ones [to be singles], like \u2018Nonmonogamummy\u2019,\u201d she responded. \u201cBut I\u2019m with you, I like \u2018Sleepwalking\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artist went on to talk about \u2018West End Girl\u2019 on the whole, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s not a cruel album. I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m being mean. It was just the feelings I was processing at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very important to me that I didn\u2019t sound like a victim, so I\u2019d be like, \u2018We have to change that line. It just sounds too, \u2018Poor me\u2019.\u2019 I wanted it to feel brutal and tragic, but also empowering, that there was joy in being able to express it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a four-star review<\/a>, NME described \u2018West End Girl\u2019 as \u201ca sleek, smart collection that sees Allen back at her very best\u201d. It hailed the singer\u2019s \u201cpop hooks and brutal honesty\u201d, and called the LP \u201ca slow-burn break-up album with Allen taking heavy inspiration from her own life\u201d.<\/p>\n

Reports of Allen\u2019s separation from Harbour emerged at the start of this year<\/a>, amid rumours that the Stranger Things<\/a> star had cheated. Later, Allen revealed that she went into a treatment centre to deal with the \u201cemotional turmoil\u201d<\/a> of the break-up.<\/p>\n

Allen and Harbour began dating in 2019 after meeting on the dating app Raya, and tied the knot in an intimate Las Vegas ceremony in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other news, the NYC townhouse owned by the former couple has been listed for sale just days after the release of \u2018West End Girl\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lily Allen has insisted that \u2018West End Girl\u2019 is \u201cnot a cruel album\u201d, saying she is no longer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,875],"class_list":["post-103269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}