poom!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 11:11 (eleven years ago) link
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
― nilmar wells (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
triangles... but pointing down... ;_;
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
not sure this tops the treatise on female bondage and existential crisis that was 'whip my hair' tbh
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
whip my weeping willow
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
This is going to get gross when she ropes in Justin Bieber to be the Nick Cave to her Kylie.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
It will be a cautionary tale about the dangers of cutting oneself, no doubt.
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
Uncle Phil won't approve of this in the slightest.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:25 (eleven years ago) link
I am so ridiculously envious of this child
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
somewhere, Solange is weeping
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
Those French lessons messed up this girl's shit
― friday goodness thank it's (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like to shake the hand of whomever it was who gave her copies of "Jackie" and "Troy"
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
don't particularly want to listen, but the reactions in this thread are priceless
― fiscal cliff racer (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1vjWrbyt-k
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
^ 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
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
Is this some of that sad hipster R&B we've been warned about?
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
she just slayed all those mopers at their own game
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
this is about as R&B as a This Mortal Coil album
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
has Whiney heard this song yet? I think he'd like it
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
omg i never knew about wicked wisdom
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
this is p bad
― goole, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
i love the fact that her deep and romantic stage name is basically DEAD TREE
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
song sounds great imo
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
and this is exactly the sort of thing i'm used to reading excited ILM threads about and then thinking it sounds like crap
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Wicked Wisdom was a perfectly fine band
― so far, so good... solange! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
The lyrics are very Evanescence.
― Solange and thanks for all the fish (Nicole), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
She's 12, so that seems just right.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
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, 9 January 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
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'.)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
Tell that to the judge.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
I assumed Maura's point was to do with the amount of songs written by adults that take the same tone?
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
ha something just got deleted
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
i remember what it was, and who posted it.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
i won't be silenced.
Sorry NA I felt bad because that was mean.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
I sort of felt the point could just as easily go the other way too.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
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
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
but intentional vagueness is a sign of immaturity
― maura, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
how so
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
How not?
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
It's what people who don't understand poetry write when they think they're writing poetry.
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
intentional vagueness? Why on earth would you want to be intentionally vague? Who would want a vague tool?
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
Who wants to read/listen to intentional vagueness? If you know something you had better tell it to me. Stop being vague intentionally.
― future kendricks (longneck), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
how do u feel about ambiguity
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― carl agatha, Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
yea tht was pretty good
― marcos, Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
amazing
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 20 November 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
"hey baby, you're a sack of potatoes, we could grow eyes for later" is a pretty hilarious lyric, willow
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 November 2014 10:59 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/officialjaden/status/547555082238038016
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
weird he hasn't posted any demands to go along with that threat
― da croupier, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
I love Hollywood kids. Cf. the Willis children. I can smell the jealousy some people have. Being jealous of black kids = progress.
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
great post
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Being jealous of black kids is a tidy summation of the last 30-odd years of popular culture iirc
― N337 (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
i think the reaction to these kids is more adorbz/goth teens are goofy/etc
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
people say that now, maybe won't be saying it when the kids are riding around on their customized Scientology-slave-made motorcycles
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah!!
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvjHpDMNoI
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
man it is a big weird amazing world; that is really fun
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
What a world!
― Jeff, Friday, 8 May 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cf/88/b8/cf88b8e4059c6957c542b49af1f28806.jpg
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 May 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
which is to say: i didn't think she had it in her
she dances like her dad
― DJP, Friday, 8 May 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
She looks just like him!
I like that song.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 8 May 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
This reminds me of Me Phi Mi, like dayglo afrofuturism.
― bamcquern, Friday, 8 May 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
Into this but I must register my disapproval of her unnecessary double trad grip snare drum miming.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:51 (nine years ago) link
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
― dyl, Sunday, 10 May 2015 04:46 (nine years ago) link
yeah that went : | pretty quick, but at the end of the day i love it for being so aggressively weird/dumb
― soyrev, Sunday, 10 May 2015 05:09 (nine years ago) link
Into this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSVdGh3iylc
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 25 September 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
this album is sort of terrible :////
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 11 December 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
there's a surprise
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 December 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
it is for me! 'why don't you cry' and 'F Q-C #7' are both pretty great. I'll have to try myself.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
ok this album is bizarre
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
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)
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
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.
― maura, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
was gonna say that i would appreciate "try hard" from willow right now, she really SHOULD be in that state
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
okay going in
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
yeah, this is a mess. but an endearing mess! not so much so that I want to listen to it again tho'.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Monday, 22 February 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
New song https://soundcloud.com/dhatu/twentyfortyeight20-prod-michael-cera
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 19 May 2016 10:15 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link