The common adage may dictate that revenge is a dish best served cold, but\u2014luckily for us\u2014musicians tend to serve it piping hot, with a side of pettiness. And though plenty of standalone clap-back tracks have emerged from celebrity break-ups, it takes a certain level of passion, skill, and audacity to commit to an entire revenge album.<\/p>\n
Lily Allen\u2019s West End Girl<\/a>\u2014a scathing, no-holds-barred album allegedly at least partly inspired by the dissolution of her marriage to Stranger Things star David Harbour\u2014takes the idea of airing your dirty laundry to a level that few others would dare to, even by today\u2019s oversharing standards. Reportedly written and recorded in Los Angeles over the course of just 10 days, it has the feel of someone setting their diary entries and voice notes to music, and has spawned a thousand reaction videos since being released in October.<\/p>\n Rosal\u00eda\u2019s Lux, meanwhile, sees pop\u2019s most sonically ambitious star working through themes of sex, regret, heartbreak, and, yes, revenge. Though much of the press around the album\u2014as well as its artwork, in which Rosal\u00eda dons a nun\u2019s-habit-slash-straightjacket\u2014has focused on the singer\u2019s path to emotional salvation, there are plenty of shots fired throughout, perhaps most overtly on \u201cLa Perla<\/a>,\u201d in which she calls a former partner a \u201cpeace thief,\u201d \u201cemotional terrorist,\u201d a \u201cwalking red flag,\u201d and \u201chuge disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n Here, find 10 of the best to ever go long-form with revenge.<\/p>\n Lemonade, Beyonc\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The common adage may dictate that revenge is a dish best served cold, but\u2014luckily for us\u2014musicians tend to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6613,146,85,46,409,10351,10052],"class_list":["post-123833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-digital_syndication","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-splitscreenimagerightinset","tag-storytypelist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123833","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=123833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}