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A FaceTime call featured in the album\u2019s opening track sets the scene for a shift in Allen\u2019s personal life. Her husband wants to open their marriage, and by track four, \u201cTennis,\u201d he seems to be engaged in an affair with a woman the couple knows. \u201cWho the fuck is Madeline?\u201d Allen repeatedly cries, a question she answers on the following song of the same name. On \u201cMadeline,\u201d she sings about messaging a woman her husband has been sleeping with: \u201cWe had an arrangement \/ Be discreet and don\u2019t be blatant \/ There had to be payment \/ It had to be with strangers \/ But you\u2019re not a stranger, Madeline.\u201d In an interview with The Times<\/a>,<\/em> Allen insisted that Madeline was \u201ca fictional character,\u201d but a costume designer named Natalie Tippett<\/strong> has claimed in an interview with The Mail On Sunday<\/em><\/a> that she is the mystery woman in question.<\/p>\n Allen, who has been sober since 2019, admits she struggled with feeling the \u201cneed to be numb\u201d in \u201cRelapse.\u201d On another track, \u201cDallas Major,\u201d she playfully croons about DM\u2019ing other men under an alias in an effort to appease her husband\u2019s arrangement: \u201cSo I go by Dallas Major but that\u2019s not really my name \/ You know I used to be quite famous, that was way back in the day \/ Yes I\u2019m here for validation and I probably should explain \/ How my marriage has been opened since my husband went astray.\u201d<\/p>\n Some of the most pointed accusations arrive in the song \u201cPussy Palace,\u201d in which Allen sings about taking some of her partner\u2019s things to the couple\u2019s West Village apartment, where her husband stayed for a period. While there, she discovered a plastic Duane Reade bag, \u201cwith the handles tied \/ sex toys, butt plugs, lube inside.\u201d Upon finding Pandora\u2019s box, Allen wonders aloud, \u201cam I looking at a sex addict?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n