They were the most random it couple ever, but there’s no denying they were cool as f*ck. When Lily Allen and David Harbour met on Raya, she moved to New York City for him and married him in 2020. She was the pop culture mainstay of our youth who was wildly outspoken and an all round laugh, and he was the sexy daddy from Stranger Things who became a household name and who everyone fancied. You’d never expect them together but you cared so much and shipped it so hard. At least I did. But now, Lily Allen has detailed how that marriage to David Harbour fell apart in a brutal album where she details various allegations and it’s absolutely savage. West End Girl is her first album in seven years and her second consecutive divorce album. Iconic to say the least. Terrible day to be a David Harbour comment section.
Track one is all joy until it’s not
The first song is about Lily getting her role in 2:22 A Ghost Story which kicked off her now successful acting career, but ends in a heartbreaking phone call where she receives bad news. It’s all downhill from here.
‘Did you kiss her on the lips?’
The second track has Lily talking about how she’s stewing on what her husband’s been doing whilst she’s in London. “Why can’t you wait for me to come home? This conversation’s too big for a phone call. Ruminating, ruminating, I’ve been up all night. Did you kiss her on the lips, and look into her eyes? Did you have fun? Now that it’s done, baby, won’t you tell me I’m still your number one? ’Cause you’re my number one.”
‘You don’t touch me’
Sleepwalking, track three, sees Lily accusing David of not being physical with her but sleeping with other women – he asked for an open relationship and Lily agreed even though she didn’t really want it personally. “Been no romance since we wed. ‘Why aren’t we f***ing, baby?’ Yeah, that’s what you said. But you let me think it was me in my head, and nothing to do with them girls in your bed.”
Madeline
Tennis and then straight into Madeline has everyone guessing who the hell Madeline is – the third party in their marriage. Lily sings “I read your texts, and now I regret it. I can’t get my head round how you’ve been playing tennis. If it was just sex, I wouldn’t be jealous. You won’t play with me, and who’s Madeline?”
Everyone is trying to work out who the hell Madeline is. “We had an arrangement, be discreet and don’t be blatant”. She said Harbour broke their rules with whatever he did with Madeline because she wasn’t “a stranger”.
We then enter full blown chaos
Lily Allen has said the album does veer into fiction as well as being autobiographical about her brutal divorce from David Harbour. But across the tracks P*ssy Palace, 4chan Stan and Just Enough she accuses him of breaking the rules of their open relationship.
She then goes on in Dallas Major to confess to using Tinder in their marriage to try and get some solace but finding the experience horrible.
She ends the record by singing “I can walk out with my dignity if I lay my truth on the table. Lie to the children, the ending was mutual, I’ll shoulder all of the pain. I’m sick of carrying, suffering for your sins. I’ve already let you in, so why should I let you win. You’ve taken everything.”
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