Londoner’s Diary
“I’m feeling quite overwhelmed. I didn’t think I could really write music any more,” said a tearful Lily Allen in the bathroom at her album launch party at the Standard hotel. After a seven-year hiatus from music, Allen is back with West End Girl, which documents — in unflinching detail — the breakdown of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour. On the night of the album’s release last Friday, Perfect Magazine hosted a dinner for Allen and pals at the Standard’s restaurant, Decimo.
There were some charming personal touches to the evening, such as the gift boxes next to each guest’s place at the dinner table. Instead of the usual offering of, say, a scented candle, each one contained a blue and white polka dot butt plug – a reference to a lyric on the song “Pussy Palace” in which Allen finds a bag at her husband’s pied-à-terre with the offending item inside.
