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Lily Allen has always been the queen of the confessional – West End Girl is a perfect exercise in unsparing honesty

Lily Allen has always been the queen of the confessional – West End Girl is a perfect exercise in unsparing honesty

Younger artists like Charli XCX have mastered what Allen owned first: a kind of ironic detachment that makes any suggestion of female artists being ‘hysterical’ much harder. With her new album, the pop star is so back, says Roisin O’Connor

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