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Lily Allen Calls 'West End Girl' an Angry Catharsis as Vinyl Push Targets No. 1 and Tour Nears

She will stage the album as a one-woman, Broadway-style show without a band or dancers.

Overview

  • In a new ELLE UK cover interview, Allen describes her fifth album as a "really angry" record driven by rage rather than self-reflection.
  • She says she wrote it while processing a traumatic marital breakdown and spent about eight months terrified of how people would respond.
  • Since its October 2025 release, she reports receiving numerous Instagram messages from women sharing graphic infidelity stories and hopes the music helps them feel less alone.
  • A theatre tour begins in March with the album performed in full each night in a one-woman format, followed by arena dates and a Mighty Hoopla headline set.
  • A recent vinyl release has put the album in a chart battle for No. 1 against The Molotovs, and it is up for major BRIT Awards including Artist and Album of the Year.