Willow’s new album, empathogen, drops tomorrow. In her Allure cover profile, she talks about her evolution as a woman, a performer, and a child of very famous parents.
Occasionally, the character that Willow slips into is a version of herself: the boss. Her voice breaks through to request the producer do a playback or to ask the director for the pronunciation of a word. It’s all very serious and meticulous. Willow is at work. Every once in a while, she’ll sing a little tune as a vocal break but that’s the only hint of who is behind the disembodied words. I’m not sure what to expect when the door to the closet-size booth opens.
And I'm inspiring them because I'm paying attention to them.” But all that preteen attention—Smith was just nine when “Whip My Hair” was released—and the pressures that came with it eventually took a toll. She had to take time away, a calculated retreat if you will. “There was a time where it was really, really dark,” she says. “I was trying to run away from it in every single way that I could. People would , ‘Are you Willow Smith?’ And I'd be like, ‘No.’ I would just bold-face lie.
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