Lily Allen is finally opening up about why it took seven years for her to release her fifth studio album, West End Girl. The British singer made a big return in October with the project, which is heavily inspired by her split from her estranged husband, actor David Harbour. Fans had wondered why she stayed away from releasing new music for so long, and now she is explaining the reason with striking honesty.
West End Girl arrives seven years after her last album, No Shame, which came out in 2015. Lily said she held back from releasing anything new because she did not believe the songs she was writing were good enough. Speaking to Interview Magazine, she admitted, “Well, everything I was writing was dog s**t.” She said she felt like she had writer’s block at the time, but looking back she thinks it was something much deeper. “I felt like I had writer’s block or something, but actually I think I just knew that something wasn’t right.”
