Lily Allen is plotting a music comeback after revealing she has flown to Nashville to start work on a new album.
The news comes just five years after the Smile singer, 38, was dropped by her former record label, Parlophone.
After releasing her previous album, No Shame, she was dropped by the company and has since admitted that returning to the studio has been daunting.
Speaking about working in Nashville, which is known as Music City, she said: ‘I’m in Nashville where everyone is really good. There’s so much legacy.
‘I have to say it’s quite intimidating being here. People are really talented.’
Lily Allen is plotting a music comeback after revealing she has flown to Nashville to start work on a new album
It comes five years after the Smile singer, 38, was dropped by her former record label, Parlophone (pictured October, 2023)
It will also be the first album she has made since making the decision to become sober in 2019 and marrying Stranger Things actor David Harbour in 2020.
However, Lily appears to be in high spirits about creating new music despite having a six-year break.
Speaking on her, Miss Me? Podcast, she said: ‘I wrote a song yesterday which was quite good, I’m happy with it.’ MailOnline has contacted Lily Allen’s reps for a comment.
The exciting announcement comes just weeks after she admitted that her children ruined her music career.
After years spent as one of London’s most notorious party girls, she moved to the country and had children in 2011.
She said her two daughters have ‘totally ruined’ her pop career because she chose to prioritise them instead of work – insisting, ‘You can’t have it all’.
The singer-turned-actress said she believes women have to decide whether to put their children or their career first, saying she chose the former.
‘My children ruined my career. I love them and they complete me, but in terms of pop-stardom, they totally ruined it,’ she told the Radio Times Podcast.
After releasing her previous album, No Shame, she was dropped by the company and has since admitted that returning to the studio has been daunting (pictured March 2023)
The exciting announcement comes just weeks after she admitted that her children ruined her music career
The singer-turned-actress said she believes women have to decide whether to put their children or their career first, saying she chose the former (L-R: Lily Allen, daughters Marnie Rose Cooper and Ethel Cooper, and actor husband David Harbour)
‘I get really annoyed when people say you can have it all because, quite frankly, you can’t.
‘Some people choose their career over their children and that’s their prerogative, but my parents were quite absent when I was a kid.
‘I feel like it left some nasty scars that I’m not willing to repeat on mine.’
Lily’s father is actor Keith Allen, 70, who walked out on her film producer mother Alison Owen, 63, when Lily was four years old.
Lily has now said that she ‘chose to step back and concentrate on my children’ and she’s glad that she has as ‘they’re pretty well-rounded.’
The Not Fair singer shares two daughters Ethel Mary, 12, and Marnie Rose, 10, with her ex-husband builder Sam Cooper, 45, but released her last studio album No Shame in 2018.
Lily now lives in New York with her children and new husband, Stranger Things star David Harbour, 48, whom she married in 2020 and has turned her hand to acting.
She said: ‘I was about two years sober, I’d just moved to New York.
‘A big part of sobriety is surrendering and letting God – in whatever way you want to believe in that – have a plan for you.
‘I got a call from a casting director who was putting on a play [2:22 A Ghost Story] in the West End. I said: ‘No, I’m not an actress’.
‘My children ruined my career. I love them and they complete me, but in terms of popstardom, they totally ruined it. I get really annoyed when people say you can have it all because, quite frankly, you can’t’ (pictured 2006)
The Smile singer shares two daughters Ethel Mary, 12, and Marnie Rose, 10, with her ex-husband builder Sam Cooper, 45, but released her last studio album No Shame in 2018 (pictured 2021)
‘But then I was talking to David – I’d been feeling a bit directionless and didn’t really know what I was doing with my life, except for being a mum and setting up a new home in Brooklyn.
‘He said, ‘Maybe you should call them back’ and five weeks later I was in rehearsal.’
For her performance in 2:22 A Ghost Story Lily received a Best Actress Olivier Award nomination in 2022.
She has since starred in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman last year, for which she received mixed reviews.
