Following an almost twenty year absence from America’s longest running sketch comedy show, Lily Allen returned to Saturday Night Live.
A former SNL musical guest in early 2007, the British-born musician launched her 12.13 appearance with “Sleepwalking,” the third title from her latest pop album, West End Girl.
Rooted in her separation from Stranger Things actor David Harbour, Allen’s current album is “taking a brutal inventory of the scars she amassed while her marriage was falling apart,” according to Rolling Stone writer Maura Johnston’s positive review.
In an interview with The Times. Lily said the trouble in her personal life ended up pulling her out of a bout of writer’s block, adding “I thought I didn’t have any good songs left.”. “My writing had been really bad and it took something to happen in my life, for everything to be blown up, for me to be able to go, ‘Oh, here she is.’”
On Saturday, the 40-year old singer/songwriter returned to the stage alongside actress Dakota Johnson for “Madeline,” with Johnson playing the part of the woman with whom her husband is having an affair.
Named one of Rolling Stone‘s best 100 albums of 2025, West End Girl is the follow-up to Allen’s 2018’s No Shame. “Here we find Allen, nearly 20 years after her debut, Alright, Still, delivering her most ruthless music yet, an odyssey of betrayal and heartbreak, a work where musical storytelling is laid out in its barest and sharpest form,” penned the magazine.
Come April, Lily Allen will perform her current full length in its entirety during her nine-city North American tour.
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Author: Saul Goode
Photo: Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA