Willow Smith Album Review

December 15, 2017
Willow Smith, young singer and songwriter, and daughter of the well known actor Will Smith, released her new album “The 1st” on her 17th birthday October 31.
The album includes 11 alternative R&B tracks. Her new album mentions a multitude of different topics like societal and gender norms, the complexity of love, and creative thinking/expression.
In her song Romance she explains her thoughts on romance and how other social expectations affect us. Her lyrics are proven to be very thought provoking because they challenge the way we live.
Romance doesn’t exist
It’s a hoax to trick your mind into thinking perfection exists
Or absence of suffering
Stop leading girls to the clouds above, it’s so distracting
We can’t focus on self-love
Morality doesn’t exist
It’s a construct we breed into children who see
We create our paradigms, we create all our lives
Ancient biology, evolving psychologies
Is all here in this moment
I want to know you like I know myself
But it would be just as confusing in hell
I’m imagining a different history
Imagine us in a field
Feasting on mountains that stretch very high
With the skies, the color of bruises and cuts
Oozing and bleeding all over the sun
Slowly, your hand caressing my thigh
Slowly, your eyes connecting with mine
Ooh ah oh, lays me
Gingerly on my back
The fall of the edge consumes me
I’ll never make it back to this moment
To this moment, to this moment
To this moment
I want to know you like I know myself
But it would be just as confusing in hell
I’m imagining a different history
Where men and women stay equal
In the eyes of society
Where we don’t condemn different people
For exercising their freedom
“We’re sexist”, I cried in an act of divine love
In a perverted into violence and lust
Where we still honor our mother
In all of her burgeoning light
Where we do not kill our brothers
Or rape our sisters or enslave any life
Willow Smith’s previous album “Ardipithecus” was more computer based and didn’t use instruments, but “The 1st” includes her playing instruments, such as the guitar. Smith told Fader Label, an independent record label based in New York City, her progression in music from her last album. “With Ardipithecus, I went in and spent the time producing and didn’t write anything down. I just freestyled. For this album it was the complete opposite and I really wanted to be organized and put in my intentions and not be so vague in my lyrics and to write them before I went into the studio and mull over these ideas and marinate on them.”
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