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We've sorely missed hearing Lily Allen on the radio ever since her last album Sheezus came out in 2014.
Now, thankfully, we'll get to hear our favourite English singer on her new album No Shame, which will be released in June. And guess what - she just dropped two tracks from it yesterday! We are feeling utterly spoiled.
In the song 'Three', a tender, piano-filled tune, Lily sings from the perspective of a young child separated from their parent due to the latter's work. The lyrics 'Please don't go/stay here with me/It's not my fault/I'm only three' are simple, yet so heartbreaking.
'Higher' is a soft groove that still manages to simmer with Lily's perpetual sass as she gently croons, 'I can take this down to the wire/Soon see if I fight fire with fire'.
Lily said that she hopes the new album resonates with her listeners, telling NME, “I believe that we as humans work through things by talking about them, and that’s what making music is, for me. It’s sharing things that you hope are going to connect with people, not that are going to connect with algorithms.
"I think we are so led by outside forces in terms of the way we express ourselves nowadays because we’re so scared of what comes back. It’s something I’ve always wanted to explore. It’s why I went into it at the beginning, when it felt a lot more free."
Indeed, the 32-year-old has received plenty of feedback that she rather wouldn't hear from trolls on social media. Lily, who is mum to daughters Marnie (5) and Ethel (6), said that people often criticise her parenting over Twitter.
"A lot of the time I’m saying things that really aren’t that bad [and] that get twisted to mean something really different, so no one can really take that away from me,” she told Beats 1's Julie Adenuga, “A lot of the stuff that I get in my timeline [is] horrible and threatening stuff.
"These people are saying a lot of horrible things about me, my kids, my role as a mother, my work – is everyone alright with that?
"Are we all cool with this? As human beings? Is this a cool environment for us to be hanging out in?"
In typical Lily fashion, though, she's not going down without a fight. The mum says that 'I don’t think cowering off into the corner is going to do anything'.
We love how outspoken she is, and we can't wait to hear the rest of No Shame.
