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\n\tLily Allen is readying her return with West End Girl<\/em>, her first studio album in seven years. The musician hasn\u2019t released any newly penned music since No Shame<\/em> in 2018. Eager for the release, Allen has scheduled the album to arrive on Friday, Oct. 24.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m nervous,\u201d Allen said in a statement. \u201cThe record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn\u2019t been before \u2013 certainly not over the course of a whole album.\u201d The album came together quickly. The singer-songwriter wrote and recorded the project over 10 days in Los Angeles late last year before completing it between New York and London.<\/p>\n \n\tNew York is a significant character on the record, which reflects on the time Allen spent living in the city after moving there in 2020. That year, she married actor David Harbour. Four years later, the couple divorced with Allen eventually returning to London.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019ve tried to document my life in a new city and the events that led me to where I am in my life now,\u201d Allen said. \u201cAt the same time, I\u2019ve used shared experiences as the basis for songs which try to delve into why we humans behave as we do, so the record is a mixture of fact and fiction which I hope serves as a reminder of how stoic yet also how frail we humans can be. In that respect I think it\u2019s very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how we all navigate them.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDuring an episode of her Miss Me? <\/em>podcast with Miquita Oliver in January, Allen expressed a desire to release music this year, but framed the goal as wishful thinking. \u201cFirstly, I\u2019m going to go and get my head straight for a bit,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m doing a little bit of work on myself in this beginning period of the year, then I\u2019m going to do some more writing, then I\u2019m going to do my play, hopefully, maybe get an album out by the end of the year. That would be nice, wouldn\u2019t it? It\u2019s not real, I\u2019m just trying to manifest it now.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tHer manifestation came true in the form of 14 songs created with her music director Blue May. In 2018, around the release of No Shame<\/em>, Allen told Rolling Stone <\/em>that in an ideal world she would release music \u201cjust all at once,\u201d adding, \u201cI\u2019d just drop a whole album.\u201d Now, she\u2019s getting that wish, too. <\/p>\n \n\tWest End Girl<\/em> Track List Lily Allen is readying her return with West End Girl, her first studio album in seven years. The musician hasn\u2019t released any newly penned music since No Shame in 2018. Eager for the release, Allen has scheduled the album to arrive on Friday, Oct. 24. \u201cI\u2019m nervous,\u201d Allen said in a statement. \u201cThe record is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[299,4023,1631,1935,17335,2187,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-29320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-album","9":"tag-allen","10":"tag-announces","11":"tag-girl","12":"tag-lily","13":"tag-west","14":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
<\/strong>1. \u201cWest End Girl\u201d
2. \u201cRuminating\u201d
3. \u201cSleepwalking\u201d
4. \u201cTennis\u201d
5. \u201cMadeline\u201d
6. \u201cRelapse\u201d
7. \u201cPussy Palace\u201d
8. \u201c4chan Stan\u201d
9. \u201cNonmonogamummy\u201d
10. \u201cJust Enough\u201d
11. \u201cDallas Major\u201d
12. \u201cBeg for Me\u201d
13. \u201cLet You W\/In\u201d
14. \u201cFruityloop\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"