Willow

Los Angeles' singer and actress Willow Smith, the daughter of a famous Hollywood actor, rose to prominence with the singles Whip My Hair (2010), released when she was just ten years old, and 21st Century Girl (2011), becoming possibly Generation Z's first pop star. She was 15 when she released her first album, Ardipithecus (2015), containing the hit Wait a Minute as well as Marceline, followed by The 1st (2017) and the slightly more artistic mini-album Willow (2019), devoted to ethereal soul ballads. The single Meet Me at Our Spot (2020) was a duet with Tyler Cole credited to The Anxiety, and heralded her conversion to rock music. Lately I Feel Everything (2021), coproduced with Tyler Cole, turned to punk-pop with the new hit Transparent Soul and a collaboration with Avril Lavigne, Grow, both backed by Travis Barker of Blink 182. But most of the album is below mediocre. She tries hard to impersonate the screaming punkette on Coping Mechanism (2022), but her heart (and family background) is just not in the desperate existential depression of punk-rock, and the result is half-based shouted songs like Maybe it’s my Fault.