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Lily Allen · S10 E3
Pussy Palace
The single that gives Lily her first UK top 10 in over a decade
2025. 'Pussy Palace' enters the UK Singles Chart at number eight, giving Lily Allen her first top 10 hit in eleven years.
"Nonmonogamummy" by Lily Allen (2025). The title alone tells you where Lily's head is at on West End Girl: raw, provocative, and completely uninterested in making anyone comfortable. While 'Pussy Palace' is the comeback hit the charts couldn't ignore, this track goes further into the album's unflinching collision of infidelity and motherhood.
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The Chart Return
'Pussy Palace' peaks at number eight on the UK Singles Chart, making it Lily Allen's highest-charting single since 'Air Balloon' reached number seven in 2014. The eleven-year gap between top 10 hits is remarkable: most pop careers don't survive a decade away from the charts. Lily's does, and the single that brings her back is the most explicitly titled track she's ever released.
Nonmonogamummy, Lily Allen (2025)
'Nonmonogamummy' takes the album's infidelity theme and wraps it in something that sounds almost playful, which makes the content even more uncomfortable. Listen for the contrast between the light production and the lyric, which is about the collision of motherhood and sexual freedom in the most unflinching terms possible. The vocal delivery is conversational, almost deadpan, as if Lily is describing something scandalous with the tone of someone reading a shopping list. It's the Lily Allen trick perfected: disguising the devastating inside the delightful.
“I called it Pussy Palace because I wanted people to have to say it out loud. I wanted radio presenters to blush. That's what pop music should do.”
— Lily Allen, NME interview (2025)
Pussy Palace: The Numbers
The Dare
Releasing 'Pussy Palace' as the lead single is either the bravest or the most reckless marketing decision of 2025. A less confident artist would have led with something safer, something radio-friendly, something that didn't require asterisks in every headline. Lily Allen leads with a title that dares you to say it out loud, and the chart position proves the dare worked.
Tennis, Lily Allen
'Tennis' captures the back-and-forth of a relationship that's become a competition: who's winning, who's losing, who served first. On an album about a marriage ending, the sporting metaphor cuts deeper than it sounds. Every rally in this track is a conversation that went wrong.
Tennis, Lily Allen (2025)
Read these lyrics as a scorecard for a marriage. Every line is a point won or lost, and by the end of the song you know the match was over long before anyone stopped playing.
What was the title of Lily Allen's FIRST single that couldn't be played uncensored on daytime radio?
The title track drops, and it answers a question Lily Allen has been circling since she was twenty-one: what kind of woman does London make, and what kind survives it? Next episode: 'West End Girl.'
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