Lily Allen is the British singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 2006 with Smile and became one of pop’s most distinctive confessional voices. Her 2025 album West End Girl, written around the end of her marriage to David Harbour, reached No. 2 in the U.K. and powered a world arena tour. In a 2026 Times interview she called its success a source of agency, accomplishment and liberation.
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