While on “Gaslight,” also featuring Barker, Willow who is openly bisexual sings with gender-fluidity, “I had to tell her, just stop messing with my head, and love me instead, it’s not official, but I think it’s common sense, or am I insane? I blew out the gaslight, now I feel a different way, I’ll just love me instead.” Travis Barker” is a teen angst anthem with emo guitars and a timelessly soaring chorus that, if at any point a pop song changed your heart or saved your life, is impossible to deny. Willow, herself a talented and versatile singer remains refreshingly vulnerable, both in her willingness to reach points of rock ‘n’ roll excess, but also, on topics of mental health, sexuality and identity.įrom Everything, “Transparentsoul feat. Throughout both ANXIETY and Everything, though, guitars remain loud, drums are driving, bass guitars grind, and the production is loose and exhilaratingly reckless. ![]() hardcore like Minor Threat, with plenty of detours into pop, soul, R&B and hip hop. That is to say, there’s as much pop and soul on Willow’s latest release as there is punk, and the frenetic contributions of Barker and the indie singer Cherry Glazerr on the album’s closing track provide an edge of hyperpop intensity, an emerging sound with Ritalin energy and a digital nihilism, where everything is possible and nothing matters.Īlong with her romantic partner Tyler Cole, Willow released THE ANXIETY in 2020, a much finer example of classic D.C. If there’s one thing consistent about this wave of Gen Z artists is that they’re stylistically voracious and seemingly indifferent to genre labels. 23, warming up with some headlining slots before supporting Billie Eilish on a world tour next year. Willow’s 2021 release features Travis Barker from Blink 182 on drums, who also produced a few songs, and Avril Lavigne, among other guest appearances. That’s how parts of the mainstream music media, at least, present Willow Smith, performing as Willow, and her latest turn toward electric guitars and pop punk on lately I feel EVERYTHING. Not to mention, the very same singer who scored a novelty hit about a decade ago with the hip hop-influenced club trifle “Whip My Hair.” From Bad Brains to Death, the African American contribution to punk and hardcore music is manifold.įew would guess, however, that in 2021, the standard bearer for those two genres - and perhaps for rock music itself - could be the Gen Z daughter of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and the actress Jada Pinkett Smith.
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