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This morning, British singer and two-time PAPER <\/em>cover star Lily Allen<\/u><\/a> announced her new album West End Girl,<\/em><\/a> her first album since 2018\u2019s No Shame<\/em><\/em><\/u><\/a>. The reveal came with a hauntingly beautiful portrait of Allen in a powder-blue puffer, already being dubbed as \u201cthe Melodrama for divorced British women over 40<\/a>.\u201d But the internet might be onto something, because this record is shaping up to be Allen\u2019s rawest and most self-aware era yet.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to British Vogue<\/em><\/em><\/u><\/a>, Allen wrote West End Girl<\/em><\/em> in just sixteen days last December, amid her split from Stranger Things<\/em><\/em> actor David Harbour. The two quietly separated earlier this year, after Allen allegedly discovered his Raya profile and later checked herself into a trauma treatment center to focus on her mental health. She\u2019s since moved back to London, poured herself into writing, and somehow spun heartbreak into a creative renaissance. \u201cI can\u2019t really talk about what I\u2019m going through with friends,\u201d she told Vogue<\/em><\/em>. \u201cBut I can do it in a three-and-a-half-minute pop song.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As we know, Allen has always been a little bit messy, witty, and sharp with her takes on her personal relationships and culture at large. That lyricism shows in the album\u2019s newly revealed tracklist, which reads like both a diary and a group chat: \u201c4chan Stan,\u201d \u201cNonmonogamummy,\u201d \u201cPussy Palace,\u201d and \u201cRelapse\u201d sit alongside more contemplative cuts like \u201cSleepwalking\u201d and \u201cDallas Major.\u201d It\u2019s witty, wounded, and deeply British \u2014 exactly the kind of tonal whiplash Allen built her name on. If No Shame<\/em><\/em> was about reckoning, West End Girl<\/em><\/em> looks like catharsis.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2014 (@) <\/p>\n The new album is also a reminder of who the OG British pop girl really is. Long before PinkPantheress<\/u><\/a>, Lola Young<\/u><\/a>, or Jade<\/u><\/a> were dominating the airwaves, Allen was turning her diary confessions into TMZ-<\/em>able snippets and songs. She turned gossip into art, oversharing into pop poetry, and heartbreak into something danceable.<\/p>\n Sixteen days, one Raya discovery, and a dozen cheeky track titles later, Lily Allen has found her voice again \u2014 older, funnier, and just as brutally honest as ever. Honestly, we\u2019re sat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lead photo by Charlie Denis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning, British singer and two-time PAPER cover star Lily Allen announced her new album West End Girl, her first album since 2018\u2019s No Shame. The reveal came with a hauntingly beautiful portrait of Allen in a powder-blue puffer, already being dubbed as \u201cthe Melodrama for divorced British women over 40.\u201d But the internet might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6000,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions\/6000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h3>\n
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