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Lily Allen brought her A-game to Halloween this year.
The singer dressed as Madeline, the beloved main character from the children’s book series of the same name. The look is also seemingly a nod to the media storm around the song “Madeline” on her latest album, West End Girl, in which the narrator confronts a woman named “Madeline” who slept with her husband.
Allen, 40, shared a video of her costume on TikTok on Nov. 1, vogueing to the song ‘Magnet’ by Cardi B.
Allen sauntered toward the camera wearing the character’s signature A-line blue coat, red bow and black Mary Janes with white ankle-high socks. She completed the look to perfection with an orange wig and a straw hat.
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Allen wore the costume out to Vas J Morgan and Michael Braun’s Halloween exclusive bash at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles on Oct. 31. Other stars in attendance included Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Kaia Gerber and Tiffany Haddish.
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On her new track “Madeline,” Allen delivers a raw, confrontational narrative about the breakdown of trust in a relationship. In the song, she reaches out to “Madeline” — the woman she believes crossed a line in her open-marriage arrangement — asking pointed questions like, “Is it just sex or is there emotion?”
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Allen, who separated from her husband of five years, actor David Harbour, 50, in February, has said that her latest album “could be considered autofiction” — a genre that combines autobiography and fiction — in an interview with Perfect Magazine.
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In an interview with British Vogue, she said, “There are things that are on the record that I experienced within my marriage, but that’s not to say that it’s all gospel. It is inspired by what went on in the relationship.”
The album’s title track, “West End Girl,” features a man doubting Allen’s talent when she’s been offered a role in a play.
In “Pussy Palace,” the narrator seemingly discovers that her partner had been using their second apartment for sexual encounters. She also questions if this person is a “sex addict”
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On “Dallas Major,” Allen sings about feeling like she was in an open marriage that wasn’t her choice.
Allen and Harbour were first linked in 2019 and married in Las Vegas in September 2020.
PEOPLE reached out to representatives for Allen and Harbour for comment on Sunday, Nov. 2, but did not receive an immediate response.
