With West End Girl, music may have finally reached peak divorce album.
On her fifth record, released Oct. 24, English singer-songwriter Lily Allen appears to debrief the dissolution of her five-year marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour in often eyebrow-raising detail.
In interviews, Allen said the album, her first in seven years, came together in around two weeks last December, when she was processing emotional turmoil in her personal life — and that it's a work of both fact and fiction.
However, there are lyrics too specific to ignore when it comes to her relationship with Harbour, including details of their New York home and their growing estrangement.
West End Girl arrives in the wake of recent
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