"When she first burst on to the music scene nearly two decades ago at 21, it was with a breezy, don't-care London swagger. Her songs concealed big, painful feelings under flippant, deadpan lyrics and deceptively sweet melodies, which made them easier to swallow. Even this summer, when she talked on her thrillingly unfiltered podcast Miss Me? about having lost count of exactly how many abortions she'd had, she sang the words to the tune of Frank Sinatra's My Way."
"In the noughties, she seemed fearless, getting paralytic at awards ceremonies and picking public beef with Madonna. However, it looked as if she might be settling into a quieter life when she married Sam Cooper and had their two daughters, but within four years they'd split up. You might not immediately have guessed, when she wrote in her memoir about a fling with Liam Gallagher, that since childhood she'd been dreaming of two point four children, living in the country, as she told this newspaper."
Lily Allen emerged in her early twenties with a breezy London swagger and songs that hid painful feelings behind flippant, deadpan lyrics and deceptively sweet melodies. She revealed intimate experiences on her podcast, including singing about multiple abortions to the tune of Frank Sinatra's My Way. She gained notoriety in the noughties for fearless public behavior, later married Sam Cooper and had two daughters before their split within four years. West End Girl narrates an open marriage gone sour, deliberately blurring personal truth and creative licence. The title track imagines domestic stability but ends in uncertainty as the protagonist confronts infidelity, broken agreements, and the strain of matching a partner's behaviour while parenting.
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