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Lily Allen’s new album was “an act of desperation”.<\/p>\n
\nThe Smile singer released her long-awaited fifth LP West End Girl last month, just days after announcing the surprise project, and she admitted she wasn’t thinking about the record – which she wrote and recorded in 10 days following the end of her marriage to David Harbour -as a “commercial endeavour”.<\/p>\n
\nLily wasn’t convinced she’d even let anyone hear the album.<\/p>\n
\nShe told CBS News: \u201cAt the time I wasn\u2019t really thinking about it as a commercial endeavour, it was just, it was an act of desperation actually.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhile I was writing it I wasn\u2019t really sure whether it was going to see the light of day up until relatively close to its release. I was always thinking, \u2018Is this something I want to share with the world?\u2019 But not when I was writing it because the writing was very much… I hate the word – I don\u2019t hate it but I feel like we hear the words ‘catharsis’ or ‘therapy’ in relation to music [quite a lot].<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt\u2019s an odd idea and an odd question that if you consider yourself an artist that you might think, \u2018Should I really be sharing what\u2019s going on in my brain as part of my art?\u2019. That\u2019s kind of messed up, that that is where we have got to as human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe 40-year-old singer previously insisted West End Girl isn’t a “cruel album”.<\/p>\n
\nShe told Interview magazine: “It\u2019s not a cruel album. I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m being mean. It was just the feelings I was processing at the time.”<\/p>\n
\nLily is in a different headspace now than she was when she wrote the record and doesn’t feel the need for “revenge”.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: “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\u2019s always f****** brutal. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you\u2019re in it.<\/p>\n
\n“That\u2019s what\u2019s fun about this record; it\u2019s viscerally like going through the motions. At the time, I was really trying to process things and that\u2019s great in terms of the album, but I don\u2019t feel confused or angry now. I don\u2019t need revenge.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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