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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2021 4:14:57 GMT
The musician and celebrity daughter is working on a new, as yet untitled album release Willow Smith has rock music in her blood, but it looks like the youngest of the Smith clan is now teaming up with her “idol” Avril Lavigne for a new project.  According to reports, Monday, the 20-year-old was spotted shooting a music video in Los Angeles with the Canadian artist. The music video is likely being shot for Smith’s upcoming album which will seemingly be more punk rock than her previous singles. She has a song with Lavigne on the as-yet unnamed project. GET UP ITS WILLOW AND AVRIL OMG pic.twitter.com/waO5BMAWAA — alex (@enctri) June 15, 2021 Earlier this month while speaking with V Magazine Smith revealed that acts like Lavigne and My Chemical Romance inspired her to take her music in a new direction. “I wanted to open myself up a little bit more and not just be so anti-social in the studio,” she explained. “I’m so excited that I’m going to be having a song on the album with Avril Lavigne. She is so iconic. From [ages] 13 to 16, she was my idol. It’s really nice to be able to have a quintessential pop-punk record with the pop-punk queen.” Smith did acknowledge that she knew from the beginning that switching into the punk genre, would be tricky given she’s always been teased for her taste in music. But she hopes that her new release will inspire other Black people to become more visible in rock music. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2021 20:10:36 GMT
WILLOW + Avril Lavigne - G R O W feat. Travis Barker (Visualizer) Willow has performed her song ‘Grow’ with Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker for the first time – scroll down to watch the performance below now.  The track features both veteran pop-punk musicians and appears on Willow’s new album, ‘Lately I Feel Everything’, which was released today (July 16). To celebrate the album’s release, Willow shared a livestream concert on Facebook, which featured her performing some of the record’s tracks with her band. “I’m just so excited because me and Avril have never performed live together before, so this is going to be a whole completely different experience,” she said during a behind-the-scenes clip between songs. “It’s a huge opportunity for me to be really able to do this to the fullest and to really connect with people who can inspire me and teach me. She’s just one of those people and I’m just so grateful that we got to meet. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2021 5:39:16 GMT
WILLOW performed a special virtual concert to celebrate the release of her fifth album, lately I feel EVERYTHING. The show was available live July 16 by using the Watch Together feature on Instagram and Facebook Messenger. Now, you can view WILLOW’s first performances of songs from the album here on Facebook Watch.
The performance was one of the most standout examples of WILLOW’s journey into her pop–punk roots. Wearing black nail polish, plaid ties and leather boots with lots of buckles, she headbanged across four stages. The four elaborate sets include an underpass, a garage, a locker room and an all-black room.
Little details like graffiti on the concrete underpass and an old couch in the dingy garage made these sets into “miniature [worlds], where everything looks real but you know it’s fake,” as WILLOW described them during a behind-the-scenes clip.
Avril Lavigne and blink-182’s Travis Barker both made appearances during the virtual concert. Lavigne joined WILLOW onstage for the first time during their performance of “G R O W.” Barker also joined WILLOW and Lavigne to command the drums on “G R O W,” as well as on the opening performance of “t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l.”
WILLOW spoke about how grateful she was for the opportunity to work with Lavigne, one of her childhood inspirations, during a behind-the-scenes segment of the video.
The performances were interlaced between insightful clips of WILLOW and her team explaining everything from the set design to the deeply emotional inspirations behind lately I feel EVERYTHING.
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2021 7:24:31 GMT
“During the quarantine and during the pandemic, so much was happening, and nothing was certain. Everything was precarious and up in the air,” WILLOW explains. “I was chanting every day, I was working out.[And] I was getting into my heightened spiritual state. But then there would be moments where I would see what was happening in the world and be completely depressed and angry and the opposite of what I was striving to create during that time. I was like, ‘This doesn’t really make any sense. This is everything. This is all things.’
“It just felt like I was going through so many emotions at the time and listening to so many different kinds of music,” she continues. And I just felt like they all coexisted in a really beautiful way. And I wanted to have an album title that expressed that feeling. So, it was really just everything. Lately, I feel everything.”
WILLOW also played hits from other eras, such as “Meet Me At Our Spot,” a collaboration with Tyler Cole released under the name THE ANXIETY. She also performed “Wait A Minute!” Notably, WILLOW shaved her head during a performance of “Whip My Hair,” a song she has historically had a complicated relationship with. In an interview with Alternative Press, WILLOW talked about coming to terms with that phase of her career.
“I spent so many of my teenage years just being angsty and depressed and being like, ‘I hate that song [“Whip My Hair”],’” WILLOW says. “I thought I hated that era, hated everything about it. But I realized as I grew up, I’m still saying the same shit. I’m still telling women and people of all colors to stand up for their truth and to take that leap to truly know themselves and to be honest with themselves.
“I feel like that song was just a different version of that same message,” WILLOW continues. “And when I realized that, I realized there’s no reason to be upset. I was preaching some real stuff, and I should be proud of that. Taking back that ownership and that feeling of power and that feeling of just like, ‘I did that…’ I should carry that with me in my life as a badge of compassion and be in service to more people who were inspired by that.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2021 5:03:52 GMT
WILLOW - XTRA (Visualizer) ft. Tierra Whack
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