▼Arbre Mort▼ aka Willow Smith

lol

yea tht was pretty good

amazing

"hey baby, you're a sack of potatoes, we could grow eyes for later" is a pretty hilarious lyric, willow

https://twitter.com/officialjaden/status/547555082238038016

weird he hasn't posted any demands to go along with that threat

I love Hollywood kids. Cf. the Willis children. I can smell the jealousy some people have. Being jealous of black kids = progress.

great post

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.