West End Girl wasn’t made to make money. In a new interview with CBS Mornings , Lily Allen opened up about her incredible new album and how it was rooted in being honest to herself and processing her emotions.

“At the time I wasn’t even really thinking about it as, like, a commercial endeavor,” the British star said, explaining that she never felt pressure to hold back in her lyricism. “It was an act of desperation, actually.”

Allen continued: “While I was writing it, I wasn’t really sure that it was going to see the light of day. Up until relatively close to its release. I was always thinking, like, ’Is this something that I want to share with the world?’ But not when I was writing it.”

Across the album, Allen processes the struggles of being in an open relationship and an end of

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