{"id":183874,"date":"2025-12-14T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183874\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:52:09","slug":"watch-lily-allen-perform-sleepwalking-madeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/183874\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lily Allen Perform ‘Sleepwalking,’ ‘Madeline’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lily Allen returned to the Saturday Night Live<\/a> stage after nearly 19 years away with two performances from her latest pop album, West End Girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Allen, an SNL<\/a> musical guest in early 2007, opened with \u201cSleepwalking,\u201d the third entry on the track list.<\/p>\n

Rooted in her separation from<\/a> Stranger Things actor David Harbour, West End Girl finds the British singer-songwriter \u201ctaking a brutal inventory of the scars she amassed while her marriage was falling apart,\u201d Rolling Stone\u2018s Maura Johnston wrote in a positive review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Allen said the trouble in<\/a> her personal life ended up pulling her out of a bout of writer\u2019s block.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I didn\u2019t have any good songs left,\u201d Allen, 40, told The Times<\/a> upon the album\u2019s October release. \u201cMy writing had been really bad and it took something to happen in my life, for everything to be blown up, for me to be able to go, \u2018Oh, here she is.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen on Saturday returned to the stage alongside actress Dakota Johnson<\/a> for \u201cMadeline,\u201d with Johnson playing the part of the woman with whom her husband is having an affair.<\/p>\n

West End Girl, Allen\u2019s follow-up to 2018\u2019s No Shame<\/a>, has been named one of Rolling Stone\u2018s best 100 albums<\/a> of the year: \u201cHere we find Allen, nearly 20 years after her debut,\u00a0Alright, Still,\u00a0delivering her most ruthless music yet, an odyssey of betrayal and heartbreak, a work where musical storytelling is laid out in its barest and sharpest form.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Allen will perform the album in its entirety on her nine-city North American tour<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n

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