The songs radiate thick bluesy riffs (‘don’t SAVE ME’) and sledgehammer shudders (‘Lipstick’), conjure a Bikini Kill-type loose ruckus (‘F**K You’), or skid into the distance with a car tyre squeal (‘Gaslight’).Ī lot of anxiety persists on this album, too.
Willow’s 2020 collaboration with Tyler Cole ‘The Anxiety’ opened the door to some heavy riffing, but ‘lately I feel EVERYTHING’ truly worships the guitar. Willow embodies that musical persona with relish, her vocals perfectly bratty and ripe.
In fact, despite a Blink-style bassline and Barker’s characteristic heavy drum patter, ‘transparent soul’ sounds more like a Paramore song. Both tracks are slightly pop-punk by (182) numbers, but the album as a whole breaks out of those lines. Lead single ‘transparent soul’ and third track ‘Gaslight’ feature Blink 182’s Travis Barker, the veteran pop-punk guest du jour. She pivots to guitar with a flair that affirms a genuine love of the genre, on eleven tracks that navigate pop-punk, nu metal, and grunge. And on her fourth solo album, ‘lately I feel EVERYTHING’, Willow acknowledges the noisy alternative rock that flows through her blood. And her famous genes bypass the slog of other rock frontwomen of colour.īut Willow’s mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, fronted nu metal band Wicked Wisdom in the noughties. Her previous three solo albums cut a smooth path through alt-R&B and neo-soul with nary a guitar riff in sight. You’d be forgiven for accusing Willow Smith of slipping into the zeitgeist pop-punk genre as easily as a garment.
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