Lily Allen isn’t necessarily looking for revenge with her new studio album, West End Girl.
The singer-actress previously said the album was inspired by her marriage to David Harbour, which reportedly ended earlier this year. But she was recently asked by Mel Ottenberg for Interview Magazine, “So should we call it a revenge tour?” referring to her current press tour for the record.
“It isn’t,” Allen responded. “I mean, I wrote this record in 10 days in December and I feel very differently about the whole situation now. We all go through breakups and it’s always fucking brutal. But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it.”
The “Smile” singer added, “That’s what’s fun about this record; it’s viscerally like going through the motions. At the time, I was really trying to process things and that’s great in terms of the album, but I don’t feel confused or angry now. I don’t need revenge.”
The Stranger Things star and Allen reportedly separated after four years of marriage in February. They had tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2020.
Allen also noted to Ottenberg that the story she tells with West End Girl is partly “based on truth and some of it is fantasy.”
Earlier this month, “The Fear” artist also chatted with British Vogue about the inspiration for her fifth studio album, which dropped on Oct. 24.
“There are things that are on the record that I experienced within my marriage, but that’s not to say that it’s all gospel,” she said at the time. “It is inspired by what went on in the relationship.”
Elsewhere during her conversation with Ottenberg, Allen was asked if she was currently dating anyone. She replied, “Maybe.” She also opened up about what it’s like dating in the dating app era.
“They’re awful, especially if you’re going through heartbreak,” she shared. “There is nothing more depressing than hundreds of people that are nothing like the person that you’re missing. It’s just like, “No, that’s not him. That’s not him. That’s not him.”
