Willow and TravisBarker bond over pop-punk resurgence and their collaborations in latest Rolling Stone 'Musicians on Musicians' chat.
. The project from the 20-year-old singer, who has embraced her inner rocker, is exactly the kind of album the in-demand producer and time-keeper loves: unexpected, genre agnostic and hard-hitting.package in next month's print issue, which hits stands on Nov. 2.
Barker said he was super impressed with the sound Willow explored on the album, noting that he thought,"'This is what she should have been doing all along, because it sounds so natural.' It sounds like who you are, every time I’ve met you or I’ve been around you. Then, when I got into the studio and added some stuff to it, had an idea for a bridge or whatever, it turned out to be a song I was really proud of.
Willow also gave Barker, known for his fierce, super soulful playing style, major props for making it look so easy.]; two of my friends came to the studio one night and they just did this random song," she told him."And I’ve been playing the drums and screaming on the mic for like this interlude every night [on tour]. It’s so crazy. I was just thinking about you, because, like damn, this actually takes a lot of work.
Given Barker's emergence from the first pop-punk wave with the seminal Blink crew, Willow also dove into how important the genre has been over the past few years as she -- and so many of her peers -- tried to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, political unrest and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement on a global scale.
Willow couldn't agree more, adding,"Through those dark times and through that pain, music — specifically rock and pop-punk, for me — just hits me in that place of, like, full and utter expression with no filter. Sometimes you need to let out that anger and sadness that you feel for the world, for yourself, and for everything that’s going on, so that you can be like, 'OK, cool. I got all of that out. Now, let me try to make a change.
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