An encore is the extra performance an audience demands at a concert’s end — and, metaphorically, the extra chapter an artist wins at a career’s supposed close. The Oceania leg of Lily Allen’s West End Girl tour played like one long encore: a year of arena shows, on several continents, for an artist the industry had largely filed under history before her 2025 album rewrote the ending.
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Mentioned in: Why Lily Allen’s Comeback Matters: The Return of Pop’s Most Honest Voice