▼Arbre Mort▼ aka Willow Smith

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.

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.