Lily Allen returned to music because she was bored

Many artists return to music because they feel the urge to be creative, because they have all sorts of ideas inside their heads or because they need the money. Lily Allen had a far different reason for her already controversial return: she was bored.

"Why did I come back? I ran out of money! No, I'm joking! I thought I'd be a really happy mum just sitting at home, playing with my kids, that was my dream." she said in an interview with NRJ. "I love my children, but I'm a very impatient, busy person naturally so two babies, neither of them can talk, it was quite boring! Staying at home all day, talking to people who can't talk back. I didn't realize how much of a creative person I am and that I needed somewhere to put my creativity."

That return has already lead to one prominent beef with rapper Azealia Banks and a controversy surrounding her comeback single "Hard Out Here." The single's video was accused of being racist, among other things.

Via MStars report on the controversy:

Allen did mean to start a conversation with "Hard Out Here," but it was supposed to be about women in popular culture, not race. "Whilst I don't want to offend anyone. I do strive to provoke thought and conversation. The video is meant to be a lighthearted satirical video that deals with objectification of women within modern pop culture. It has nothing to do with race, at all," she wrote.