<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m nervous\u201d, Allen says of the upcoming release. \u201cThe record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn\u2019t been before \u2013 certainly not over the course of a whole album. I\u2019ve tried to document my life in a new city and the events that led me to where I am in my life now.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n \u201cAt the same time, I\u2019ve used shared experiences as the basis for songs which try to delve into why we humans behave as we do, so the record is a mixture of fact and fiction which I hope serves as a reminder of how stoic yet also how frail we humans can be. In that respect I think it\u2019s very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how we all navigate them. It\u2019s a story…….\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview with Perfect<\/a> magazine, Allen says that there have been many times over the past seven years when she considered calling time on her music career: \u201cI was writing pretty consistently throughout the last four years, but I just didn\u2019t think it was any good,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n Allen also confirms that West End Girl is a work of autofiction and tells the story of a broken marriage – the star\u2019s relationship with actor David Harbour is believed to have ended in 2024 – but it turns out that it wasn\u2019t just personal trauma that inspired her to get back in the studio.<\/p>\n In 2022, Allen joined Olivia Rodrigo on stage at Glastonbury to perform Allen\u2019s 2009 hit F**k You. They dedicated this to the US Supreme Court, which had just overturned the Roe vs Wade verdict from 1973 that embedded abortion rights into the constitution.<\/p>\n Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen – Smile (at London O2 17th May 2024) – YouTube
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