Trending badgeTrendingPosted 2 hours agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down"I Don't Need Revenge": Lily Allen Has Insisted That Her Jaw-Dropping Album Is Not "Cruel" As She Revealed Exactly When She Wrote ItLily also admitted she's trying "not to think about" David Harbour's reaction to the songs, and I can't say I blame her!by Stephanie SoteriouBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Last week, Lily Allen set social media ablaze with the release of her fifth album, West End Girl, which seemingly lifts the lid on the recent breakdown of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour. Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images The two married in 2020 but confirmed that they had split in February of this year. It was previously revealed that Lily has been "prevented from discussing specifically" the "details about the demise of her recent marriage," but she has repeatedly said that her new album was heavily influenced by what went down between them. Gotham / Getty Images With that in mind, it's unsurprising that listeners were floored by West End Girl telling the story of Lily being left heartbroken by a partner who forced her into an open relationship after she landed an acting role in London in the summer of 2021. Dave Benett / Getty Images Despite the couple agreeing that the man can be intimate with other women so long as they are strangers who he only ever saw for sex, Lily was devastated to learn that he developed an emotional connection and seemingly had fully-fledged affairs behind her back. In "Pussy Palace," which is perhaps the most shocking song on the album, Lily discovers that her partner was secretly using their apartment in the West Village as his sex palace, and the eyebrow-raising things she discovered at this home."I found a shoebox full of handwritten letters / From brokenhearted women wishing you could have been better / Sheets pulled off the bed / Strewn all on the floor / Long black hair probably from the night before," she sings. "Duane Reade bag with the handles tied / Sex toys, butt plugs, lube inside / Hundreds of Trojans, you're so fucking broken / How'd I get caught up in your double life?" You can read a full breakdown of the album's jaw-dropping revelations here, but other key aspects include Lily's partner blaming her for his own infidelity and showing no empathy or concern for how he made her feel. Lily also explicitly says on the record that she decided to release the exposing album because she found it unfair that her life had been completely torn apart while her ex-partner got to carry on unaffected by his actions. AZLyrics "I'm expected to be nice / Picking up the pieces / What is it you sacrifice? / I'm protecting you from your secrets," she sings. "Never get your sympathy / I don't think you're able / But I can walk out with my dignity / If I lay my truth on the table." And in a new conversation with Interview magazine, Lily opened up some more about her thought process when creating the album as she insisted that it's not "cruel" and that she "doesn't need revenge." Lexie Moreland / Getty Images After being asked if the record was her "revenge tour," Lily explained that she wrote all of the songs in a little over a week back when the entire situation was still incredibly fresh, sharing: "I wrote this record in 10 days in December, and I feel very differently about the whole situation now. We all go through breakups, and it's always fucking brutal. But I don't think it's that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you're in it." Karwai Tang / Getty Images "That's what's fun about this record," she went on. "It's viscerally like going through the motions. At the time, I was really trying to process things and that's great in terms of the album, but I don't feel confused or angry now. I don't need revenge." Dave Benett / Getty Images Elsewhere in the interview, Lily reiterated: "It's not a cruel album. I don't feel like I'm being mean. It was just the feelings I was processing at the time." Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images And while Lily kept much of the raw emotion that she felt back in December in the final version of the album, she did reveal that she made some tweaks ahead of its release as she was concerned about sounding too much "like a victim." John Nacion / Getty Images She said: "We did go back and tweak things. It was very important to me that I didn't sound like a victim, so I'd be like: 'We have to change that line. It just sounds too poor me.' I wanted it to feel brutal and tragic, but also empowering, that there was joy in being able to express it." Nicky J Sims / Getty Images But despite clearly having no regrets about what she opted to share with the world, Lily did suggest that she is concerned about what David might make of it. When asked what she thinks his reaction to the songs would be, she confessed: "I try not to think about that." Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images David has not publicly responded to the album, and he has thus far only made