![]() “Yeah, I’m a bad mother / I’m a bad wife / You saw it on the socials / You read it online,” sang Allen in her cool, snide fluttering baritone during “Come On Then,” her first song on Tuesday night at Union Transfer, where she played to a fairly packed house. The warm-voiced Allen’s new album, No Shame, should change those fortunes (if she cares) as it invests itself in the nuances of social media takeovers, single motherhood, and a past - even a present - that wasn’t as comedic as we were lead to believe. Yet, because Americans don’t get that snide, sly humor in song is an actual thing unless it’s outlandish, Lily Allen has remained something of a (fabulous) cult figure in the U.S., debuting in 2006 with Alright, Still, and following it with 2009’s It’s Not Me, It’s You and 2014’s Sheezus. Lily Allen always included a similarly and funny strain in her music, not dissimilar from her father, caustic British comic writer-actor Keith Allen (The Young Ones, The Supergrass, Comic Strip). Lily Allen | photo by Ellen Miller for WXPN | ![]()
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