Lily Allen becomes scorched earth in David Harbor with lyrics that are too revealing
Lily Allen pulls no punches on her new album, “West End Girl,” which appears to be aimed primarily at her ex-husband, “Stranger Things” star David Harbour.
Although Allen is careful not to name names on his album, which came out Friday, he uses terms like “my husband” and appears to provide specific examples of the rift surrounding their potentially open relationship.
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Allen sings about a person who sees other women in the song “Ruminating” and tries to do the same in the songs “Nonmonogamummy” and “Dallas Major.”
He also mentions a certain “arrangement” the two shared that apparently went wrong in the song “Madeline.”
“We had an agreement/Be discreet and don’t be cheeky/There had to be a payment/It had to be with strangers,” Allen says.
She also mentions finding “a shoebox full of handwritten letters,” “sheets torn off the bed,” and “long black hair, probably from the night before” in the song “Pussy Palace” before becoming even more explicit about someone she labels a “sex addict.”
“Duane Reade bag with the handles tied/ Sex toys, butt plugs, lube inside/ Hundreds of Trojans, you’re fucking broken/ How did I get caught up in your double life?” she sings.
Neither representatives for Allen nor Harbor responded to News’s request for comment on Friday.
The singer and actor were the subject of rumors for months before their split was shared in People magazine in February.
The two met in 2019 and married the following year.
Allen opened up about their split on his podcast in March, stating that men like women who are “young” and “dumb” and that men will “leave you for a 20-year-old girl” when the physical attraction wears off.
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Harbor refused to divulge much in an interview with GQ in April, instead saying that if she spoke about her split with the singer, it would encourage “a lewd spectacle of humiliation.”
When the “Fuck You” singer was later asked about the breakup of her marriage during an interview with Perfect magazine, she told the outlet, “I don’t know what I can say.”
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“Two people who were once together are not together. And that’s really sad,” he said in the article published earlier this week. “It’s hard. It’s hard for me not to have my person, you know? And I’m a pretty codependent person.”
Allen was once married to Sam Cooper, with whom she shares two daughters, Ethel Mary and Marnie Rose.