Smith's 'therapeutic place'
BANG showbiz – Could 18, 2024 / three:37 p.m. | Historical past: 488180
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Willow Smith was in a “therapeutic place” whereas writing her new album.
The 23-year-old singer-songwriter's 'Empathogen' album options an “emotional shift” that Willow stated was a deliberate try to “appeal to folks.”
She informed Selection: “The lyrics, the content material of 'Coping Mechanism' was about heartbreak and anger, what I used to be feeling on the time. It’s a must to really feel that and let it out. With 'Empathogen,' my emotional shift got here with a musical shift in the direction of one thing softer and extra introspective in the direction of a extra complicated house. I used to be in a spot of therapeutic and looking for the truest expression of therapeutic.
“I'm attempting to attract folks in, as a substitute of exploding outwards.”
Willow additionally talked about why she selected the title 'Empathogen' for her newest album.
She stated: “Empathogens are sure molecular compounds like MDMA and psilocybin. Sure medicinal vegetation, if you ingest them, have a deep reference to life. They open your coronary heart to a deeper sense of empathy. Whereas making this album, I used to be considering by a therapeutic course of, going to a deeper place and experiencing totally different ceremonial environments. I needed my title to precise that.
Whereas Willow comes from a well-known household, with mother and father Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith and brother Jaden Smith all within the leisure trade, she admitted that she desires to be seen as her personal particular person.
She stated: “I’ll love my household with my complete being and spirit eternally. I feel as quickly as you might be born, you might be a person who must make your individual selections. All of us have to determine how to do this.” be adults and reside our lives as people, however I’ll all the time need to be near my household in each manner.