Lily Allen
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Biography
Lily Allen (born Lily Rose Beatrice Allen, 2 May 1985, London) is an English singer-songwriter who broke out from MySpace demos and witty blog posts into mainstream pop with her debut album Alright, Still (2006), led by the UK Number 1 single âSmileâ and follow-ups like âLDN,â which established her conversational, ska-pop-tinged style and sharp social commentary. She shifted into sleeker electropop on Itâs Not Me, Itâs You (2009), co-written and produced with Greg Kurstin, yielding chart fixtures such as âThe Fear,â then paused major recording activity before returning with Sheezus (2014) and the acclaimed, diaristic No Shame (2018), a set that chronicled post-fame turbulence with confessional clarity. Parallel to her music, Lily Allen expanded into writing and performanceâpublishing the memoir My Thoughts Exactly (2018) and earning stage acclaim with her West End debut in Danny Robinsâ 2:22 A Ghost Story (2021), for which she received an Olivier nomination, followed by a 2023 turn in Martin McDonaghâs The Pillowman. In 2024â2025 she co-hosted the BBC podcast Miss Me? with Miquita Oliver and publicly addressed a period of mental-health difficulty, then re-centered her career around a full-length return: West End Girl (BMG), released October 24, 2025, her first album in seven years. Framed as the most vulnerable work of her career and executive-produced with Blue May (with Seb Chew and Kito also attached), West End Girl reconnected Lily Allenâs diaristic writing with dance-pop and R&B textures while folding in the stage craft and storytelling instincts she honed in theatre.
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Albums
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- The Fear
- Smile
- Sheezus
- Fuck You
- Cigarettes & Cush by Lily Allen
- Plain by Lily Allen
- Hard out Here
- Our Time
- Lost My Mind
- Everyone's At It
- Not Fair
- Him
- Shame For You
- Friend of Mine
- Littlest Things
- He Wasn't There
- Take What You Take
- Chinese
- Back To The Start
- Somewhere Only We Know
- Dream A Little Dream by Lily Allen
- L8 CMMR
- Rawhide by Lily Allen
- Interlude
