On her upcoming album, West End Girl, Lily Allen sings about heartbreak, cheating, and the devastation of finding a loved one's sex toys from their "double life."
The project comes six years after Allen's last album, 2018's No Shame, and after her public split from her husband David Harbour.
A feature in Perfect Magazine breaks down some of the moments on the record, including a song on which she imagines a conversation between a man's wife and “the other woman."
"I can’t trust anything that comes out of your mouth/I’m not convinced that he didn’t fuck you in our house,” Allen, 40, sings on one track.
But perhaps the most salacious detail comes in her song “Pussy Palace,” in which the lyrics describe finding sex paraphernalia.
“Duane Reade bag with the handles tied/Sex toys, butt plugs, lube inside/Hundreds of Trojans you’re so fucking broken/How did I get caught up in your double life?” Allen sings.
On a later song, “4Chan Stan,” she quips, “You’re not even cute.” In another lyric, she expresses her disappointment with dating apps.
In January, Allen said she was “spiraling” amid rumors of turmoil between her Harbour, whom she started dating in 2019 and married in 2020. She later confirmed the split.
The singer revealed in March that she got breast enhancement surgery after the marriage dissolved and alluded to dating other people.
“We’re buying fancy lingerie that my boobs can actually fit in and like, you know, taking pictures on my phone,” she said on her Miss Me? podcast. “Haven’t sent them to anyone yet, but it will hopefully get there at some point.”
Earlier this month, she got candid about her struggles amid her breakup with Harbour.
"The feelings of despair that I was experiencing were so strong,” she said in a profile with British Vogue. "The last time that I felt anything like that, drugs and alcohol were my way out, so it was excruciating to sit with those [feelings] and not use them."