Lily Allen’s West End Girl album is for the divorced moms.

The 40-year-old singer dropped the record, her fifth, with a week’s notice on October 24, promising a “mixture of fact and fiction.” But, in the days following its release, those dissecting Allen’s lyrics would probably agree that there is more fact than fiction.

Allen separated from her husband since 2020, David Harbour, in late 2024. The breakup, and the lead up to it, is picked apart like an emotional autopsy throughout the album. “Nobody knew what was going on in my life,” Allen told The Times. “So I got into the studio, cried for two hours and then said, ‘Let’s make some music.'”

Across 10 days in late December, West End Girl was made — an 14-track postmortem of a marriage breaking down in private and in public, in front of

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