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
― Belami Young (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 2 November 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
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
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 17 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 17 November 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
interview should've been conducted via twitter imo
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I can only handle a sentence or two of this at a time
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
pound for pound the best celebrities in america right now
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 November 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
also their sibling bond is inspiring
― J0rdan S., Monday, 17 November 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
this is awesome
― example (crüt), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
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 can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
I don't even know what "honesty" means in this context
pranasty
― example (crüt), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
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."
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
this is awesome― example (crüt), Monday, November 17, 2014 4:52 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 17 November 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
"the melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else"
this sounds like a Borges line
― anonanon, Monday, 17 November 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
or a bush album title
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
also, holy redundant suffix
Worst celebrity family ever
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link
Amateurist otm shit is not funny
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:09 (nine years ago) link
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), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
This shit is hilarious, come on
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Stupid fabulously rich people are depressing
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:26 (nine years ago) link
more classic than dud
― the late great, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
These awful people, they rule us
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 03:56 (nine years ago) link
yes these two black teenagers are perfect symbols of the american ruling class
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:00 (nine years ago) link
i thought the interview was awesome, i think theyre awesome, i never want to read or listen to anything they make
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:01 (nine years ago) link
I was referring to the entire family
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
Just the idea of inheriting cultural space like they have is gross
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― 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.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
lamp, what is your definition of "awesome"? that is not a leading remark.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:11 (nine years ago) link
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
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
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
― 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.
― Greer, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:01 (nine years ago) link
Also in the spirit of the thread, something of her actual music I guess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpIMt9wKZUw
― Greer, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
I'm not
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:07 (nine years ago) link
b/c it's a thread about the smiths? because complain about dynasties of all kinds, all the time.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
PEOPLE complain, i meant to write
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:12 (nine years ago) link
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
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:13 (nine years ago) link
The Smiths are the least alarming Scientologists out there!
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:14 (nine years ago) link
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!"
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
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.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:17 (nine years ago) link
sorry i got in a dizzy, i just hate the oblique hand-waving sort of thing that greer is doing up there.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:18 (nine years ago) link
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
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:22 (nine years ago) link
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.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
None of what they are talking about sounds very much like Scientology jargon tbh.
More like good old-fashioned common sense.
― Sonic Dieways (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:43 (nine years ago) link
otm
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 05:49 (nine years ago) link
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'"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 06:18 (nine years ago) link
― Greer, Monday, November 17, 2014 9:01 PM Bookmark
mm hmmm
― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link