Tabloids Link Natalie Tippett to Allen Song

Lily Allen has released West End Girl, her first album in seven years, a 14-track, revenge-tinged record that channels the pain of her split from Stranger Things actor David Harbour. Allen says the work springs from issues of rejection, abandonment and changing norms around intimacy and cautions it mixes fact and fiction. Several songs — notably "Tennis" and "Madeline" — call out a mysterious "Madeline," whom Allen describes as a fictional composite, while alleging Harbour breached the boundaries of an open arrangement. Tabloids including the Mail on Sunday/Daily Mail have identified the purported other woman as costume designer Natalie Tippett; Tippett has acknowledged hearing the song but declined to comment, and Harbour has largely stayed silent. Critics have largely hailed the album as a devastating, confessional revenge record, drawing comparisons to cultural moments such as Beyoncé's "Becky with the good hair" and Dolly Parton's "Jolene." Beyond the headlines, Allen frames West End Girl as both personal therapy and a wider commentary on how dating apps, disposability and evolving ideas of monogamy are reshaping modern intimacy.