Lily Allen's West End 'revenge album'was still echoing through tabloids and timelines when talk began of what might come next. The songs that picked over the bones of her marriage toStranger ThingsstarDavid Harbourwere barely out in the world, yet those close to her say Allen was already looking further back—to the rooms, corridors, and closed‑door meetings that shaped her as a young woman in the music industry.

Now, at 40, the singer is said to be preparing the most uncompromising work of her career: a long‑shelved, #MeToo‑style record taking aim not at an ex, but at the powerful men who, she believes, failed her when she was at her most vulnerable.

Allen's latest album,West End Girl, has been widely described as a 'divorce record'—a spiky, confessional chronicle of the breakdown of her relationship with Harbour, 50, whom she married in Las Vegas in 2020.

'Lily showed with her last release that she has a sharp instinct for timing,' one insider toldOK!. 'If this album is released, it won't be cautious or softened. Lily has a lot to get off her chest about how she was treated when she was younger and didn't have the power she has now.'

OnWest End Girl, Allen did not flinch from uncomfortable territory. She appeared to allude toinfidelity in the marriage, and used the collapse of her relationship with Harbour to reassess the collapse of her first, to builder Sam Cooper.

'(I've learned there are no) baddies and goodies in a marriage,' she reflected. 'But, having done things that were not very nice in my first marriage, I have a better idea now of the pain I may have inflicted. I've learned how horrible it is to be on the receiving end of that.'

She has spoken with the same plainness about the mechanics of divorce itself—the lawyers, the late‑night spirals, the way something as bureaucratic as a financial settlement can seep into the heart.

'It's just sort of devastating, really,' Allen said. 'It keeps you up at night and costs a huge amount of money and just goes on and on and on.'

Then there is the corrosive mistrust that lingers. 'I hate feeling like I can't trust anyone,' she admitted. 'But there's something about dealing with an ex‑partner and lawyers that creates an environment of feeling like you can't trust anybody or anything.'

It is that emotional honesty, people around her say, that now threatens to move beyond the family court and into the boardrooms of Britain's music industry.

Source: International Business Times UK