Perhaps David Harbour should have seen this coming. Lily Allen ’s split from the Stranger Things star is the engine behind her bombastic fifth studio album, West End Girl —the pop star’s first in more than seven years. And to say that the same woman who once sang , “You’ve only got yourself to blame / I’m gonna tell the world you’re rubbish in bed now / and that you’re small in the game,” doesn’t pull any lyrical punches would be an understatement.

After its release on Friday, many listeners were shocked by the candor with which the 40-year-old Allen sings about the dissolution of her marriage with 50-year-old Harbour, whom she wed in a Las Vegas ceremony in September 2020. Like all good breakup albums , Allen’s West End Girl is an unflinching look at a relationship

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