"Lily Allen's first album in seven years "fuses fact and fiction" as it traces the breakdown of an open marriage. Recorded over ten days following her 2024 breakup from Stranger Things actor David Harbour, whom she married in 2020, it's hard not to picture him as the subject of the lyrical cheating allegations. "I made this record in December 2024 and it was a way for me to process what was happening in my life," Allen told British Vogue in an October 17 profile."
"The album about their end begins with the couple moving to New York for his acting career (Allen and Harbour famously toured their Brooklyn brownstone in a 2023 Architectural Digest video). Then, Allen books a show on the West End, which she's done twice: 2021's 2:22 A Ghost Story (for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award)and 2023's The Pillowman."
Lily Allen recorded her first album in seven years over ten days after a 2024 breakup from actor David Harbour, whom she married in 2020. The 14-track project traces the split in chronological order, moving from early cheating suspicions to an unwanted open relationship and into post-breakup blues. The narrative begins with a move to New York for his acting career and her return to the West End. Lyrics depict shifting demeanours, audition lines, intrusive images of another woman, and a forced openness articulated in the line: "If it has to happen, baby do you want to know?"
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