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Lily Allen explains seven-year gap between albums

Lily Allen has opened up about the reason behind the seven-year wait for her fifth studio album, West End Girl.

The British hitmaker made a splash in October when she released her explosive album, which is inspired by her split from her estranged husband, actor David Harbour.

West End Girl comes seven years after Lily's previous album, 2015's No Shame, and she has now explained that she waited so long to release new music because she didn't think her songs were good enough.

"Well, everything I was writing was dog s**t," she told Interview Magazine. "I felt like I had writer's block or something, but actually I think I just knew that something wasn't right."

Lily, 40, continued, "I always strive to tell the truth in my art, so I guess I subconsciously knew that something wasn't right in my personal life, and I couldn't go there creatively because if I did, then it would all fall apart."

The Smile hitmaker noted that she wrote "probably" a hundred songs over the past four or five years, but she was "not excited" by them. However, she "immediately" found her "authentic voice" when her marriage was "all falling apart".

"I wouldn't say I was ashamed (of the music) but I was not excited by anything I had done to the point where I wanted to share it with people that I love, never mind the rest of the world," she said. "Whereas when I started writing this, I was immediately like, 'I'm onto something.'"

Lily started dating the Stranger Things actor in 2019, and they tied the knot at a Las Vegas chapel the following year.

In December 2024, reports surfaced that they had separated amid allegations of infidelity on David's part.

The songwriter appears to confirm the claims on West End Girl, which also hints that they had an open relationship.

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