Welcome to OfficialWillow’s pop-punk era. In our latest issue, the artist talks collaborating with Travis Barker and Avril Lavigne, switching genres, and her mother’s influence. Read more here:
Last month, Willow Smith—whose performer name is simply Willow—released the first single from her upcoming album. The pop-rock song, called “Transparent Soul” and featuring the former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, took off immediately . But it was just the start of a rollout that will surely be filled with more surprises.
with your mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, and your grandmother Adrienne Banfield-Norris. But you’ve forged your own path with music: After your breakout hit, the 2010 banger “Whip My Hair,” you switched to soulful, experimental alt-R&B, and even shoegaze. Now you’re making a pop-punk rock album. What led you in this new direction?
I always wanted to do a metal album, because my mom was my inspiration as a child. I went on tour with her when I was 7 or 8, when she performed at Ozzfest with her band, Wicked Wisdom. Seeing a strong Black woman onstage singing rock was so amazing—but a lot of people weren’t happy about seeing a Black woman in that space. I saw her gracefully do her thing while so many people were being racist and sexist and just not being nice. But she handled it with such strength.
Lighting director: Robert Kozek; lighting technician: Kenny Castro; director of photography: Jimmy Nyeango; fashion assistant: Jensen Edmondson; production assistant: Kurt Lavastida. Are you planning on incorporating performance art into this release cycle, the way you did for your previous album,I don’t think I’m going to be doing any performance art, but there are going to be a lot of cool, creative things that don’t even really have to do with music that I want to explore during this era.
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