Tyler, the Creator can’t help falling in love in his self-directed video for “Darling, I.” Slipping back into the world of Chromakopia, the rapper gives his heart to a host of cameo crushes, including Willow, Nia Long, Ayo Edebiri, Lauren London, and Chase Infiniti. Tyler goes from date to date …
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Donald Glover appeared on Instagram Live last night to clarify his upcoming work with Childish Gambino and to acknowledge the feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. The rapper confirmed that he will release a new single, “Lithonia,” on July 2 ahead of his forthcoming LP, Bando Stone in the New …
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Willow wanted her song “Run!” to evoke the feeling of a panic attack — like the one she nearly had when she was stressing out over a confrontation during a relationship. On her past two albums, Lately I Feel Everything (2021) and Coping Mechanism (2022), she wielded this type of …
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Willow stopped by NPR for a five-song Tiny Desk set that featured some old favorites, a couple of new tunes, and one world premiere performance. As the penultimate offering, Willow debuted “Run!” a previously unreleased track from her upcoming album, Empathogen, out this Friday, May 3. “Run!” begins with a …
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Willow‘s inner emotions spill over on her latest single, “Big Feelings,” stylized as “b i g f e e l i n g s” on the tracklist for the musician’s upcoming studio album Empathogen. It’s the same way songs like “t r a n s p a r e n …
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Willow is looking for the symptoms of life in nature. On Tuesday, the musician released her new single, “Symptom of Life,” along with its nature-shot video, which she self-directed. “The song has a very beautiful whimsical nature but holds a lot of mystery,” Willow said in a press release. “There’s …
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Grasping the difference between loneliness and solitude was a game-changer for Willow. Loneliness, she realized, was something that often sent her running in search of distraction from the overwhelming emotions that live in that silence. Solitude, on the other hand, was a teacher. “When we’re alone, when there’s nobody there …
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Willow made one of the best rock albums of the year with the nu-metal-influenced Coping Mechanism, but she’s quite aware that some people — especially “old white dudes” — love to question her rock and metal credentials. In reality, she’s been a metalhead since the age of five, as her …
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Willow took the the SNL stage like a damn pro — glaring, belting, screaming in her platform Converse and feline black eyeliner. The 21-year-old guitarist and singer began with “Curious/Furious,” a rocker with a seductive build and an indelible intro where she rhymes “I always knew there was an order …
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Since she began releasing self-produced bedroom pop in the mid-2010s, Willow Smith has been guided by her own muse, smashing genres into one another while telling her story in painstaking detail. All the while, she’s been dragging pop into weirder, darker spaces. The wobbly 2015 bedroom-funk cut “Wait a Minute!” …
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