Welcome to Lessons in Lifestyle, and I'm writing to you during my 64th listen of Lily Allen's first album in seven years, West End Girl.
The obliterative divorce record serves as an autopsy of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour, and details everything from marital betrayal to open relationships and sex addiction (according to the album's press release, it's part fact, part fiction, and it's impossible to know where one ends and the other begins). Either way, it's a complete masterpiece – and I am thoroughly obsessed.
Through the album, Allen has unapologetically and comprehensively broken a long-standing break-up taboo: the idea that a woman in heterosexual relationships should hang on to her dignity at all costs, writes Helen Coffey this week. "That's the way you win, you see – by showing the man in question how incredibly poised and, crucially, un-mad you are. You can be sad, of course – a beautiful, tragic figure, gently weeping without ever tipping over into ugly crying – but never, ever angry." In West End Girl, Allen does exactly the opposite. "She is devastated, confused, and, yes, mad as hell – and she will not pretend otherwise to make herself seem more palatable or the world feel more comfortable," writes Helen.
On a different note, Olivia Petter argues this week that Jennifer Lawrence asking ChatGPT for breastfeeding advice (as revealed in a recent interview) is a sign that we're becoming too reliant on AI, even in our most vulnerable moments. Olivia writes that she found Lawrence's admission "alarming" because it "indicates just how normalised this behaviour has become, when the act of asking a robot for help and emotional support should surely be anything but". Read more here.
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