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Exploring Lily Allen’s New Album & Open Relationships in Hollywood

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CAKE MEDIA

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4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re getting into Lily Allen’s new album West End Girl - a brutally honest look at fame, motherhood, resentment, and the messiness of a Hollywood open relationship. We’ll break down the hidden (and not so hidden) meanings in her lyrics, talk about what she’s said publicly about open relationships, and then we’ll look at Hollywood in general to see which open relationships among celebrities we know about, and which are rumored. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.squarespace.com/fluently⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code FLUENTLY Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quince.com/fluently⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365 -day returns. REGRETTING YOU is a story of growth, resilience, and self-discovery in the aftermath of tragedy, also starring Dave Franco and Mason Thames with Scott Eastwood and Willa Fitzgerald, in theatres this October.

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0:00.0

So hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode fluently for today we are talking all about

0:05.4

Lily Allen's newest album, West End Girl. She wrote it in 10 days after her divorce from

0:12.1

David Harbor, who plays the good guy on Stranger Things. That's probably what he's most

0:16.0

famous for. And they were married for, I believe, four years. And we knew that they got divorced, but we didn't have all of the details. And let me tell you, we have all of the details with her newest album, West End Girl. And it's this unbelievable album. Like, I feel like you get an album like this maybe once every decade where all the way from the beginning, you have to listen to it

0:37.7

in order, as you should with all albums when you listen to it the first time. But it takes us down

0:42.5

this journey of their relationship where she's really happy with David. They're together.

0:47.3

They're married. They get a nice house. And then he kind of pushes her into an open relationship

0:52.1

that she's not super down with, but she doesn't

0:54.6

want to lose him. And then he promptly breaks all of the rules that they set for that open

0:59.6

relationship, starts having affairs with all of these women. And she ends up getting a divorce

1:05.8

from him. And let me tell you, the details in here, we have voice notes, we have names, then we find out

1:12.4

what the real names are, we have direct lines and quotes, references to a Dwayne Reed bag

1:19.1

with the handles tied and butt plugs, lubs, condoms, I said lubs, I think it's just singular

1:25.4

loob, condoms inside,ters from all of these broken women

1:30.1

left behind in David Harper's past that he still holds on to. Lyrics like, am I looking at a sex

1:36.5

addict? Her confronting the affair partner, Madeline, although her name, as we found out recently,

1:42.4

is Natalie. Not to sound like Stefan from S&L, but this album has everything.

1:47.4

And it's really fascinating.

1:49.3

And just so whether you've been with somebody, as I've talked about on Patreon as I have, who ended up having a double life and you're just so absolutely, words don't describe it this album describes it words

2:03.4

can't whether that's your situation whether you've been through divorce breakup cheating that

2:08.0

feeling of when your partner loves you but they won't leave you which is one of her lyrics in here

2:12.9

you know you won't love me you won't leave me oh it's just, it's Lily Allen at her best and she's

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