▼Arbre Mort▼ aka Willow Smith

Lyrics about death and drowning. Radiohead sample. Willow Smith just got real.

http://soundcloud.com/saulepleurant/sugarandspice

also how was there no existent thread to bump smh

There was totally a thread about "Whip My Hair"

~inject my soul with darkness~

the song ENDS WITH HER DROWNING

Willow Smith as Ophelia, could happen.

needs more witchhaus triangles

"saule pleurant" means "weeping willow" btw ;_; ;_; ;_;

isn't she still like 11 years old

seems like the right age to get into radiohead and singing about death

meanwhile, will's all like

http://i1107.photobucket.com/albums/h385/trillzmowheelz/freshprince.gif

drip drip drip

poom!

Lyrics about death and drowning. Radiohead sample. Willow Smith just got real.

keep reading this to myself in a sort of 90s MTV news anchor voice

triangles... but pointing down... ;_;

not sure this tops the treatise on female bondage and existential crisis that was 'whip my hair' tbh

whip my weeping willow

This is going to get gross when she ropes in Justin Bieber to be the Nick Cave to her Kylie.

It will be a cautionary tale about the dangers of cutting oneself, no doubt.

Uncle Phil won't approve of this in the slightest.

I am so ridiculously envious of this child

somewhere, Solange is weeping

Those French lessons messed up this girl's shit

I'd like to shake the hand of whomever it was who gave her copies of "Jackie" and "Troy"

don't particularly want to listen, but the reactions in this thread are priceless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1vjWrbyt-k

^ released last march. almost sad to see jada's going down the same sad piano path instead of leaving it to her kid and doubling down on wicked wisdom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nHGGAmJCYI

Is this some of that sad hipster R&B we've been warned about?

she just slayed all those mopers at their own game

this is about as R&B as a This Mortal Coil album

has Whiney heard this song yet? I think he'd like it

omg i never knew about wicked wisdom

this is p bad

i love the fact that her deep and romantic stage name is basically DEAD TREE

song sounds great imo

and this is exactly the sort of thing i'm used to reading excited ILM threads about and then thinking it sounds like crap

In 2005, Sharon Osbourne went to see Wicked Wisdom perform at a small night club in Los Angeles, California. She said, "I was blown away. When you see and hear Jada with her band it's apparent that she has nothing but love and respect for this genre of music."[2] In May 2005 organizers announced Wicked Wisdom would perform on the second stage of 2005's Ozzfest.[4] Fans of the festival were outraged, claiming the band did not have the credibility to perform at the music festival.

I like this a lot, actually. I want to give her a hug and take her out for ice cream after hearing it, but I like the song.

Wicked Wisdom was a perfectly fine band

The lyrics are very Evanescence.

She's 12, so that seems just right.

i love this, although i have to say: the fact that this was written by a 12-year-old is a hell of a metacommentary on extended adolescence in american culture (totally counting myself here)

Yeah, I don't want to knock this too much seeing as she's only 12, and it's okay for a 12 year-old. But... that's about as far as you can go with this, it's pretty meh.

(Don't know if this is a crucial piece of information but I loved 'Whip My Hair'.)

i love this, although i have to say: the fact that this was written by a 12-year-old is a hell of a metacommentary on extended adolescence in american culture (totally counting myself here)

― maura, Wednesday, January 9, 2013 10:03 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how is 12 "extended adolescence"? a 12-year-old is an adolescent

Tell that to the judge.

I assumed Maura's point was to do with the amount of songs written by adults that take the same tone?

ha something just got deleted

i remember what it was, and who posted it.

i won't be silenced.

Sorry NA I felt bad because that was mean.

i didn't take it as mean, just a joke, so it's cool. anyways i just didn't understand maura's point but what localgarda says makes sense and i don't know what i'm doing posting in this thread anyways.

I sort of felt the point could just as easily go the other way too.

i would tie it more to people trying to write these kinds of songs that are intentionally vague and so easily universalized before calling it a metacommentary on extended adolescence but that's just me

There should be a video where a sad Will Smith drops rose petals into the river, and then pushes a volume of Tennyson off on a raft surrounded by candles.

but intentional vagueness is a sign of immaturity

how so

How not?

It's what people who don't understand poetry write when they think they're writing poetry.

no, it's a tool/technique. it's something that can be used immaturely or maturely, but not something that is itself mature or immature.

intentional vagueness? Why on earth would you want to be intentionally vague? Who would want a vague tool?

Who wants to read/listen to intentional vagueness? If you know something you had better tell it to me. Stop being vague intentionally.

how do u feel about ambiguity

Ambiguity is great but it's not vagueness and it's not really a tool or a technique. It's more like trying to say something precisely and recognizing complexity without reducing it to an either/or.

Willow going down the same path as her mother is a lot more preferable to Willow going down the same path as her brother:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFOBd0TWgws

http://i.imgur.com/sFkFz.jpg

lol

Not as good as my early teen German army jacket upon the back of which I lovingly transcribed the lyrics to 'Transmission' by Joy Division. Pah!

Awwww bless her heart.

i kept expecting them to do something with that radiohead sample but man

Did anyone manage to get an mp3 of this? Warner Chappell keeps taking it down.

ya I just tried to go to the Soundcloud page & got 404'd... dang

As a francophone I feel I have to point out it's actually a saule *pleureur* not pleurant.

you really don't get more quintessentially teenage than gothy puns on your own name in bad french

Came here on lex's recommendation but I can't access the soundcloud link - is there another link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TytCZo4VPk

I love how the whole aesthetic is such Lex catnip that he was even able to take a peverse glee in the Radiohead sample.

Holy sh-- well, that's something else. Some pretty complex stuff goin on there, musically and emotionally, especially let alone for a 12 (!) yr old. I thought this was going to be the codex cover I'd heard speak of, but obv this is another track. If this is goth (and yeah, inject me with darkness qualifies it), it's the mopier teenage angst side of goth as opposed to the horrorshow type of goth I was alluding to on the EOY thread, but I'm glad you showed me this Lex.

Oh wait, no, it is Codex! Goes to show how many times I've made it all the way through King Of Limbs. Wait, isn't King Of Limbs also a reference to a tree?

did we talk about 'kite' yet

http://25.media.tumblr.com/458aa02d758422d37d008e9463d5cf98/tumblr_mmib1yC8Er1qc2vjzo1_500.jpg

it's a shop

http://www.bet.com/shows/bet-awards/2012/photos/style/ford-presents-bet-awards-2012-red-carpet.html#!070112-shows-beta-willow-jaden-smith

yeah I realized that like 30 sec after I posted it ;_;

people are really out here photoshopping willow smith red carpet shots

https://soundcloud.com/dhatu/5-feat-jaden

I love how the original song on this thread is some dire gloomy glop based on Radiohead but lex likes it because it's willow smith

lol

I was wondering what she was doing recently and apparently she released a free EP two days ago and it's... okay

https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bfw6naziykwxmgq6d7pe5wpwm6y&PAffiliateID=100l3tb

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/?_r=2

Jaden and Willow have given what may be my favorite interview of 2014

You mentioned breathing earlier, and it’s also an idea that recurs in your songs.

WILLOW: Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

JADEN: When babies are born, their soft spots bump: It has, like, a heartbeat in it. That’s because energy is coming through their body, up and down.

WILLOW: Prana energy.

JADEN: It’s prana energy because they still breathe through their stomach. They remember. Babies remember.

WILLOW: When they’re in the stomach, they’re so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world.

JADEN: By the chemicals and things, and then slowly…

WILLOW: As they grow up, they start losing.

JADEN: You know, they become just like us.

interview should've been conducted via twitter imo

I can only handle a sentence or two of this at a time

pound for pound the best celebrities in america right now

also their sibling bond is inspiring

this is awesome

What are some of the themes that recur in your work?

JADEN: The P.C.H. being one of them; the melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else.

WILLOW: And the feeling of being like, this is a fragment of a holographic reality that a higher consciousness made.

JADEN: [bursts into laughter] As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that’s one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest.

I don't even know what "honesty" means in this context

pranasty

okay lmfao at Jaden: "I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out."

this is awesome

― example (crüt), Monday, November 17, 2014 4:52 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they sound like horrible people. alternatively, the level of stupidity that has been pumped into their minds reaches child-abuse levels.

"the melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else"

this sounds like a Borges line

or a bush album title

also, holy redundant suffix

Worst celebrity family ever

Amateurist otm shit is not funny

it's weird that their father got rich and famous by being funny and charismatic and then raised his kids to be these somber little pod people

This shit is hilarious, come on

Stupid fabulously rich people are depressing

more classic than dud

Willow’s “3″ is available now on iTunes. Jaden’s “Cool Tapes Vol. 2″ will be available beginning at 12 a.m. with the download of his new app called Jaden Experience.

These awful people, they rule us

yes these two black teenagers are perfect symbols of the american ruling class

i thought the interview was awesome, i think theyre awesome, i never want to read or listen to anything they make

I was referring to the entire family

Just the idea of inheriting cultural space like they have is gross

it's weird that their father got rich and famous by being funny and charismatic and then raised his kids to be these somber little pod people

― nakhchi little van (some dude), Monday, November 17, 2014 9:11 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, listen to "rock the house" and then read this interview. will smith has traveled a long road.

lamp, what is your definition of "awesome"? that is not a leading remark.

in this context? idk something like inspiring feelings of admiration and/or disbelief

partly i just... i cannot imagine being interviewed by the new york times (even the new york times magazine) and saying... any of the things that they said. even if its just meaningless art skool drivel it feels admirably loopy and its also just really funny. also jaden otm when says not very much current music is cool

Just the idea of inheriting cultural space like they have is gross

― Οὖτις, Monday, November 17, 2014 11:03 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm always confused when people single out one of the lone black legacy families in Hollywood as where they want to feel gross about occupation of undue cultural space.

Also in the spirit of the thread, something of her actual music I guess:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpIMt9wKZUw

I'm always confused when people single out one of the lone black legacy families in Hollywood as where they want to feel gross about occupation of undue cultural space.

I'm not

b/c it's a thread about the smiths? because complain about dynasties of all kinds, all the time.

PEOPLE complain, i meant to write

and the smiths are horrible crypto-scientologists with creepily entitled children?

i mean, racism is everywhere, but it's not like we need another reason to find the smiths kind of alarming, along with other celebrity scientologist families who make vanity films/records

The Smiths are the least alarming Scientologists out there!

i'm not sure about it, but even if it were true that's sort of like saying "nuclear proliferation is the least likely of these ten imminent threats to human civilization!"

it's very possible i'm missing out on most of the places where "people" (who? where?) routinely complain about black celebrity dynasties and avoid complaining about their white counterparts.

sorry i got in a dizzy, i just hate the oblique hand-waving sort of thing that greer is doing up there.

dizzy tizzy

feel like in the time of #gamergate ppl have to say some pretty dire stuff for me to find it all that terrible. teenagers pretentiously talking about how school sucks and they like driving around listening to music is just kinda... idk even if you dont think its funny its hardly something to object so strenuously too imo

Well they're starting to disprove my theory that people raised in the church of Scientology turn out more normal compared those who get into it later in life.

None of what they are talking about sounds very much like Scientology jargon tbh.

More like good old-fashioned common sense.

otm

this interview is delightful fuiud

"I gave one little quote and my dad got silly
- he said 'you're moving with your auntie and uncle in west philly'"

I'm always confused when people single out one of the lone black legacy families in Hollywood as where they want to feel gross about occupation of undue cultural space.

― Greer, Monday, November 17, 2014 9:01 PM Bookmark

mm hmmm

do they even take up that much cultural space these days? will smith's only made two movies this decade, and the one that wasn't a sequel to a 90s hit and co-starred his son bombed. jada's a supporting character on a tv show, the kids make mixtapes and say pretentious shit.

not going to tell someone they have to do a cartwheel because some incredibly rich people have raised their kids to talk like new age cult leaders, but like, if this gets you frothing than don't go a beverly hills grocery store, you'll choke on your tongue

bless their pretentious hearts

WILLOW: I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, “Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.” But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.

like that interview makes one wonder if jaden and willow are twin aspects of the buddha returned or at least if they think there's a good likelihood of that being true
and with agency, what is the difference
om mani padme hum

First of all, if anyone thinks I am singling out the Smith clan for occupying too much cultural space because they are black, and that by implication I have a problem with black people occupying cultural space in general then just come out and say it. Let's have that argument/discussion/whatever. I think that's ridiculous and my posting history on this board reflects that but if someone else thinks otherwise then by all means school me on it.

That being said, speaking for myself I hate dynasties in general, be they of the political, cultural or royal stripe, but this thread is about the Smith's kid(s), so I posted about them. We can talk about the Osbournes or Miley or whoever else if people think that's warranted but rest assured I find them equally loathsome. And not just on a flaunting privelege level but also on a "damn that is some shitty parenting" level, cuz what the parents are usually doing in these situations is setting their kids up for a life under the media microscope where all their awkward teenage lashing-out and experimenting more often than not results in a rehab visit/reality TV show. They raise children with an insane level of entitlement and lack of perspective and then the kids go off the rails once they start exploring what it means to be an adult and hooray lucky us the public gets to be endlessly subjected to it, presented to us as "entertainment". The Smiths are not alone in doing this by any means - altho tbf I do think Will has taken it kind of to a next level with Jaden's movie "career", I am a little at a loss to think of another action star who has tried so hard/invested so much in pushing his kid's career and tying it so explicitly to his own.

so sayeth this cranky old man

None of what they are talking about sounds very much like Scientology jargon tbh.

More like good old-fashioned common sense.

― Sonic Dieways (latebloomer), Monday, November 17, 2014 11:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this is exactly what scientology's child curriculum is like, "let's use common sense to build everything up from base principles"

these kids are pretty entertaining, though. I like the concept of Willow and Jaden.

the jaden album is pretty enjoyable boom bap via based god stuff tbh

Personally, I agree that Will Smith pushing the 100m creation of a sci-fi metaphor for passing the movie star torch to his son is exceptional madness, and considering the family's history with scientology (google "new village leadership academy") "these kids are trip!" is arguably a glib assessment of the situation.

However, if you find yourself regularly pleading with ilx to give you the benefit of the doubt that your bile is devoid of sexism/racism/etc maybe you should consider how you've been expressing that bile

"these kids are a trip!" i mean

I love when this thread refers to these individuals as "The Smiths"

Bel Air, Here We Come

willow be on some osho shit

Girlfriends in a Coma Ain't Nothin' But Trouble

willow and jaden's celebrity/privilege is a red herring imo, teenagers of all backgrounds can be pretentious in exactly this way

but remarkably few can then go out and buy a life that matches those pretentions

i'm as KILL THE RICH philosophically as anyone but i find it very hard to get annoyed by celebrities compared to other rich people

since we've had some thread crossover, The Smiths (lol) weren't content to do this to only their own kids

http://tonyortega.org/2013/11/18/exclusive-first-interview-with-the-principal-of-will-jada-smiths-shuttered-scientology-school/

i'm as KILL THE RICH philosophically as anyone but i find it very hard to get annoyed by celebrities compared to other rich people

...

love yr bread and circuses do ya

i'd really read that interview with their teacher before assuming these guys are just lit magazine types with millions falling out of their pockets

Former Scientology official Claire Headley has helped us understand the three basic concepts of Study Technology in our series, “Up the Bridge.” We can quickly summarize them. Hubbard believed that students had problems primarily because they skipped over words they didn’t fully understand. So at the heart of Study Tech is the “misunderstood word” or MU, which is solved by meticulously looking up chains of words in dictionaries, called “word clearing.” Second, Hubbard felt that students missed concepts because they were too abstract. He solved this by requiring a lot of modeling in clay and other materials. And third, Hubbard said learning had to happen on a gradient, meaning that advanced concepts can’t be understood until many intermediate steps are introduced first.

In our discussions with Claire, it became obvious that although these ideas appear somewhat like common sense, Scientology takes them to extremes, so that students spend huge amounts of time looking up small words like “an” or “the,” and hours go into making clay models of simple ideas.

...

“It could have been a great school. But they were so vigilant about the Scientology aspect of it. In a fourth grade class, they were reading a first-grade text because they were so worried about the kids running into a misunderstood word. If a couple of kids got into a scuffle at recess, that also had to be the result of a misunderstood word,” she says. “It was so dull. The teachers were so bogged down following these rules, but that’s what Will and Jada wanted.”

up-the-bridge corner

willow and jaden's celebrity/privilege is a red herring imo, teenagers of all backgrounds can be pretentious in exactly this way

― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you only care about them because they are celebrities tho

pretending like this stuff is garden-variety teenager speak is ignoring a good deal of what's going on here

Don't be an SP.

I have no real knowledge of the Scientology connections underlining their comments here, so I can only go on how strange these things do or don't sound on their own. As someone who works with teenagers regularly, a lot of this wouldn't make my top 5 of weirdest shit I've heard teenagers earnestly say.

I once was a teenager who went to a school with other teenagers, and if someone had said " I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist" i would have found that quite odd.

I certainly wouldn't have.

i read this to my girlfriend and she said "yeah, that sounds like the weird shit i would say in middle school."

it's possible i've forgotten about all the hall locker chatter about duality consciousness, prana energy and how driver's ed obviously isn't helping if everyone's having accidents

I once was a teenager who went to a school with other teenagers, and if someone had said " I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist" i would have found that quite odd.

― da croupier, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 12:37 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can't admit things like this in public! you will be weaponized by the government if they find out!

haha the last thing is actually the closest thing to normal idiot teenager talk of like everything he says

some of the shit about creativity, sure yeah, anybody with a poetry book could spout it, but if there's genuinely nothing exceptional about what these kids are saying, we wouldn't be saying it was awesome

This interview has been edited and condensed.

Directors cut plz.

willow and jaden's celebrity/privilege is a red herring imo, teenagers of all backgrounds can be pretentious in exactly this way

― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 12:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, i found this pretty fun though i also see where outic is coming from.

but yea there ain't NO fucking way i'd want my teenage or college writing/art/poetry/thoughts to be broadcast out into the world. i guarantee you i said shit similar to this for years as a kid. fuck dude i said shit like this monday night after smoking up a little!

i could be blind to the scientology bullshit behind this though. i have willfully avoided that shit

but aren't you interested in taking a free stress test?

lol

https://twitter.com/bellhooks/status/519668755224215553

full circle to the earlier picture there

has anyone raised the possibility that they're just trolling everyone, at least on some level?

can't even get outraged by that if they are, really, if i was a scion of a famous couple who from what we can gather seem to have gone fairly off the rails as human beings/parents, i'd be pretty disaffected & looking to fuck with the media on a sizable scale if given the opportunity.

jaden's music is sub-gambino crap, willow's is more interesting at least, like B-minus level erykah or janelle monae

they are 16 and 14 respectively

yeah cut the kid some slack, you shouldn't be able to outdo Childish Gambino until 17 anyway

when was the last time will smith was in a good movie btw? does 'i am legend' count as "good"?

he has never been in a good movie

well aware of their ages, but anything that reminds me of donald glover in any way brings me into rage mode

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA he has been in SEVERAL

family's collective output has been complete garbage since hmm let's see when did Menace II Society come out, 1993?

none of them are in menace II society IIRC

Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Men in Black (1997)
Enemy of the State (1998)

^^^all vv good.

'ali' has its moments, but jada was in the much better mann movie ('collateral'.)

oh, jada. well that's pre smithification.

will alone has enemy of the state, independence day, ali, the first bad boys is disposable action fun (the second is something kind of vulgar tho)

jada was great in kill bill

that's Vivica Fox!

wtf that was Vivica Fox? nvm

will always great I missed the opportunity punch Will Smith in the face for fucking up my neighborhood during the Pursuit of Happyness shoot

great = regret

lol

Will Smith would prbly hold you by the head at arms length

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1385926/Will-Smith-takes-New-York-block-2m-trailer-Men-In-Black-3-set.html

haters gonna hate

yeah cut the kid some slack, you shouldn't be able to outdo Childish Gambino until 17 anyway

― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Wednesday, November 19, 2014 1:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this interview is more entertaining than all of childish gambino's music combined

damn this one time i went to see SEVEN POUNDS and it was so damn boring. you ever get that thing when you are tired and your feet are really hot and you want to dunk them in cold water? my feet were burning up during SEVEN POUNDS and i had to take off my shoes and socks in the movie theatre

These kids are more or less on the reactionary/new age tip that lots of my friends were when they were in their 20s. Are they into Alejandro Jodorowsky yet?

I can't imagine reading "The Holographic Universe" at 10 that would have blown my mind into a million pieces.

haha I do not think Jodo would tell them the things they would expect to hear...

xp

i don't think they've read half of the things they say they've read, unless "ancient texts" means scientology shit.

goo goo g'joob

& yeah, someone like kanye could draw legit artistic inspiration from jodorowsky, hence the yeezus tour staging - i don't think it'd compute with these dipsticks

Yeah Kanye would never superficially engage with something

"Dipsticks"

Glad ilx is coming down on these adolescents working through a process of identity construction.

omg do you think they heard us

i thought they were sleeping

Well they certainly should be

well, we've practiced on you xxxp

the cutest part of the thread was shakes somehow thinking he wouldn't get his ass handed to him by will smith in a fight (and i say that as someone who would get his ass handed to him by will smith in a fight)

I think he was just gonna punch him and then run away

i don't know, shakey might have a shot at the title

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2920256/will-smith-punch-o.gif

A couple Shakey guys that were up to no good

Started making trouble in my neighborhood

will smith literally carries a gym around with him, i would not fuck with that guy

A GYM WITH MARBLE FLOORS

you all, this is really all about ethics in hypothetical never going to happen fights with washed/half-crazy scientologist movie stars journalism, it's v serious

(but yeah fucking with him does seem like a really bad idea)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cBRfjcY9SQ

lolll

http://imgur.com/gallery/NGMYq

lol

yea tht was pretty good

amazing

"hey baby, you're a sack of potatoes, we could grow eyes for later" is a pretty hilarious lyric, willow

https://twitter.com/officialjaden/status/547555082238038016

weird he hasn't posted any demands to go along with that threat

I love Hollywood kids. Cf. the Willis children. I can smell the jealousy some people have. Being jealous of black kids = progress.

great post

Being jealous of black kids is a tidy summation of the last 30-odd years of popular culture iirc

i think the reaction to these kids is more adorbz/goth teens are goofy/etc

people say that now, maybe won't be saying it when the kids are riding around on their customized Scientology-slave-made motorcycles

yeah!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvjHpDMNoI

man it is a big weird amazing world; that is really fun

What a world!

http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cf/88/b8/cf88b8e4059c6957c542b49af1f28806.jpg

which is to say: i didn't think she had it in her

she dances like her dad

She looks just like him!

I like that song.

This reminds me of Me Phi Mi, like dayglo afrofuturism.

Into this but I must register my disapproval of her unnecessary double trad grip snare drum miming.

erm i just saw this and wtf

it seemed like it was going to be good for the first 30 seconds but i don't like it

yeah that went : | pretty quick, but at the end of the day i love it for being so aggressively weird/dumb

Into this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSVdGh3iylc

this album is sort of terrible :////

there's a surprise

it is for me! 'why don't you cry' and 'F Q-C #7' are both pretty great. I'll have to try myself.

ok this album is bizarre

it tries very hard to give that impression, and it's definitely not boring, but i cringed so much during it. (her delivery is especially try-hard)

mostly it made me think about how very easy it is to give the impression of being a strange weirdo, and how easy it is to conflate that with seeming like a genius auteur

there's something very honestly 15-year-old about the album that i appreciate. she's definitely had a singular existence, yet the lyrical themes are echoed by my students (with different particulars obviously), and the music's veering between grinding and soothing is very adolescent-brain.

was gonna say that i would appreciate "try hard" from willow right now, she really SHOULD be in that state

right, i appreciate it as an artefact of a teenage mind with a lot of ideas, but i don't think they work as music or songs much. wouldn't be surprised if she works out how to do that in the future, this feels very straight-from-mind-to-record without much editing process

okay going in

yeah, this is a mess. but an endearing mess! not so much so that I want to listen to it again tho'.

i guess this new song is actually old but i hope she makes an entire album that sounds like baduizm!! http://www.thefader.com/2016/02/22/willow-smith-shares-jimi

New song https://soundcloud.com/dhatu/twentyfortyeight20-prod-michael-cera

So, The 1st, then. Far less WTF than the last album but still pretty singular. "And Contentment" is the pick of the bunch for me.