Lily Allen Releases West End Girl, Names 'Madeline'

Lily Allen has released West End Girl, her first album in seven years: a 14-track record largely written in a 10-day burst that channels the collapse of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour. The songs blend autofiction and vivid personal detail — notably “Tennis,” which names “Madeline” and appears to call out an alleged mistress, and “Pussy Palace,” which recounts finding sex toys, lube and condoms — while Allen cautions the work mixes fact and fiction. The album traces themes of betrayal, non‑monogamy, humiliation, mental‑health struggles and threats to her sobriety as she processed the split. Critics have largely praised the record as a raw personal exorcism though some reviews were mixed and tabloids have intensely dissected its lurid details; Harbour has not publicly responded.