Just Us: The brilliance of Lily Allen, Nelly Furtado’s retirement and Al’s melancholy playlist
Should I Delete That?
Alex Light & Em Clarkson
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We’ve had a busy week being completely and utterly obsessed with Lily Allen’s new album - West End Girl - and we mean TRULY OBSESSED.
We unpack Lily’s radical honesty on the album which narrates the breakdown of her marriage. We dive into her cultural trailblazer status - and just how brave she is to put her relationship under the microscope...
Our pop-culture chat continues - as we discuss Nelly Furtado’s retirement from music and the way people have tied her decision to leave music to recent body-shaming headlines. Is it taking the narrative away from her? And why is the music industry so toxic for “older” women?
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Studio Manager: Elliott Mckay
Video Editor: Celia Gomez
Social Media Manager: Sarah English
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my question to delete that. I'm Alex Light. And I'm in Clarkson. How are you? |
| 0:12.7 | I'm good. I'm good. David Harper's not good. David Harper's not good. I think I'm much better than David Harper. I'm obsessed. |
| 0:21.8 | Are you? Well, since you told me. I'm so, I am so excited to hear you say that. You know me? I'm |
| 0:28.4 | quite good at letting a pop culture moment pass me by. Yeah, I do know that. But you told me to get involved. |
| 0:35.1 | Uh-huh. So reluctantly, I was like, oh, fine, I will. |
| 0:38.3 | And now I'm like, oh my God, this is like groundbreaking stuff. |
| 0:42.3 | I am so relieved. |
| 0:43.3 | For listeners who don't have a clue what we're talking about, Lily Allen released a, |
| 0:48.3 | well, actually, oh my God, I could talk about this forever. |
| 0:50.8 | She's released a new album, West End Girl. |
| 0:53.4 | It is so fantastic. |
| 0:56.4 | It is an in-depth, beautiful piece of narration explaining in-minute detail how David Harbour is a knob. |
| 1:08.9 | I was expecting, like, symbolism. I was expecting, like, I think that's |
| 1:14.4 | what Haltaya Swift does it, right? Like, symbolism, like, X. That is not Lily Allen style. |
| 1:19.1 | No, it is not. She's just full on giving the, she's just giving it all away. And it's brilliant. |
| 1:24.5 | Everything. This is why I'm obsessed with her. And whether or not you like her music, you have got to respect the storytelling. Like, it is. If you listen to that album, track by track, she tells such an extraordinary story of a marriage breakdown. And of her, she's so self-well, I could literally, how long have you got? Because I could just talk about it. I could talk about it. As you know, I adore Lily Allen. |
| 1:46.7 | But I could do this. |
| 1:47.5 | I could do this for a day. |
| 1:48.4 | I've never been so excited by an album in my life ever. It's amazing. Should you know what? And I didn't think I was going to get excited either. And I am genuinely excited. when she says who the fuck is Madeleine? |
| 1:58.7 | My job. |
| 1:59.3 | Next track is Madeline. |
| 2:01.4 | Yeah. |
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