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On Friday, Lily, 40, dropped West End Girl – eight years after 2018’s No Shame – and it’s been branded her “revenge” album by fans, reports The Sun. Allen and Stranger Things star Harbour, 50, split in December and it was later reported he’d had a three-year affair. It appears that Allen has taken aim at a mistress named “Madeline”. And now, in a resurfaced YouTube clip from 2023, Harbour is heard making a quip about infidelity during a tour of their Brooklyn townhouse. They invited U Smagazien Architectural Digest to their home and while opening the door, Harbour joked about the camera crew being a former flame. He asked: ‘What the hell are you doing here? I have a family now!” before inviting them in, as Allen watched on and laughed. But fans have now said the joke hasn’t aged well. One wrote: “David’s welcoming intro-joke aged like milk!” A second said: “Harbour really made a trailer for his own cheating scandal during the first 20 seconds, her body language don’t lie, she knew something. This intro didn’t age well”. Someone else said that Madeline may have been “hiding in the cupboard” during the tour. On Allen’s new track Tennis, she sings: “So I read your text, and now I regret it”. “I can’t get my head round how you’ve been playing tennis. If it was just sex I wouldn’t be jealous “You won’t play with me and who the f*** is Madeline?” Writing on social media, one fan said: “Lily Allen dropping a whole song confronting the other woman named Madeline”. And, referencing Dolly Parton’s iconic hit, a third added: “We got Jolene, Becky with the Good Hair and now Madeline”. Ahead of the album’s release, Allen described the bombshell contents as a “fusion of fact and fiction”. She said: “I’m nervous. I’ve gone back and forth over whether to release this. It’s inspired by very personal episodes from my life”. “The record is very vulnerable because it depicts something many of us go through and fear — a break-up. “I’ve tried to document the events that led me to where I am now. “At the same time, I’ve used shared experiences as the basis for songs which delve into why we humans behave as we do. So the record is a mix of fact and fiction.” The Smile singer, who has now moved back to London with her two daughters from her first marriage, took just ten days to write and record the album. This article originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced with permission.
