{"id":53795,"date":"2025-12-14T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/watch-lily-allen-perform-sleepwalking-madeline\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:12:11","slug":"watch-lily-allen-perform-sleepwalking-madeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/watch-lily-allen-perform-sleepwalking-madeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lily Allen Perform &#8216;Sleepwalking,&#8217; &#8216;Madeline&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Allen performs two tracks from her latest album, <em>West End Girl<\/em>, with actress Dakota Johnson joining for one<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lily-allen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lily-allen\" data-tag=\"lily-allen\">Lily Allen<\/a> returned to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> stage after nearly 19 years away with two performances from her latest pop album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/lily-allen-west-end-girl-review-1235454943\/\">West End Girl<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAllen, an <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\">SNL<\/a><\/em> musical guest in early 2007, opened with \u201cSleepwalking,\u201d the third entry on the track list.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lily Allen: Sleepwalking (Live) - SNL\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6e2XrRy7NnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRooted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lily-allen-album-west-end-girl-born-act-of-desperation-1235470284\/\">her separation from<\/a> <em>Stranger Things<\/em> actor David Harbour, <em>West End Girl<\/em> finds the British singer-songwriter \u201ctaking a brutal inventory of the scars she amassed while her marriage was falling apart,\u201d <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Maura Johnston wrote in a positive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/lily-allen-west-end-girl-review-1235454943\/\">review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAllen said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lily-allen-west-end-girl-new-album-1235459774\/\">the trouble in<\/a> her personal life ended up pulling her out of a bout of writer\u2019s block.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI thought I didn\u2019t have any good songs left,\u201d Allen, 40, told <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/culture\/music\/article\/lily-allen-interview-intimacy-is-messy-ive-had-a-tough-year-qvc3t078z\" target=\"_blank\">The Times<\/a><\/em> upon the album\u2019s October release. \u201cMy writing had been really bad and it took something to happen in my life, for everything to be blown up, for me to be able to go, \u2018Oh, here she is.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAllen on Saturday returned to the stage alongside actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dakota-johnson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dakota-johnson\" data-tag=\"dakota-johnson\">Dakota Johnson<\/a> for \u201cMadeline,\u201d with Johnson playing the part of the woman with whom her husband is having an affair.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lily Allen: Madeline (Live) - SNL\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rm5W3A4hszg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>West End Girl<\/em>, Allen\u2019s follow-up to 2018\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-lily-allen-drops-subtle-truth-bombs-on-no-shame-629876\/\">No Shame<\/a><\/em>, has been named one of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-albums-of-2025-1235466292\/pulp-more-1235466594\">best 100 albums<\/a> of the year: \u201cHere we find Allen, nearly 20 years after her debut,\u00a0<em>Alright, Still,\u00a0<\/em>delivering her most ruthless music yet, an odyssey of betrayal and heartbreak, a work where musical storytelling is laid out in its barest and sharpest form.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAllen will perform the album in its entirety on her nine-city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lily-allen-west-end-girl-2026-north-american-tour-1235478487\/\">North American tour<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/snl-watch-lily-allen-sleepwalking-madeline-west-end-girl-1235483691\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen performs two tracks from her latest album, West End Girl, with actress Dakota Johnson joining for one Lily Allen returned to the Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":53796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}