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WILLOW has also announced U.S. tour dates supporting Billie Eilish. WILLOW will join the tour on February 3rd in New Orleans, Louisiana. Highlights include two nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City on February 18 and 19th and The Forum in Los Angeles on April 8th. WILLOW will also play Life Is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas on Friday, September 17th. More WILLOW tour dates will be announced soon.
lately I feel EVERYTHING features Travis Barker, Avril Lavigne, Tierra Wack, Cherry Glazer and Ayla Tesler-Mabe. “lately I feel EVERYTHING is a musical expression of trying to perceive both joy and pain through an equally compassionate and playful lens,” says WILLOW. Of the 11 tracks on the album, WILLOW had previously released singles, “Lipstick,” pop punk anthem, “Grow” and the explosive “t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l feat. Travis Barker.” In the time since its release, “t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l feat. Travis Barker” has amassed 145 million streams globally and became WILLOW’s first Hot 100 entry. The song, currently #12 on the Alternative Chart.
All songs on lately I feel EVERYTHING, were written by WILLOW with production and co-writing on select tracks from her longtime collaborator Tyler Cole. The album was recorded in Los Angeles at Conway Studios with additional drums by Matt Chamberlain. WILLOW plays guitar throughout.
At only 20 years old, WILLOW has spent half her life in the music industry. With lately I feel EVERYTHING, a decade of growth both in the industry and as a young woman come to a head. Her album is a love letter to that constant evolution. She began working on the record in 2020, during the pandemic. With all the extra time on her hands at home, she began recording demos that she would later re-record when she felt like she could safely enter a studio. It was a new process for her, born out of caution, but it helped her capture the rawness of her new sound. On the forthcoming record, WILLOW channels the pop-punk and emo heroes she adored as a teenager, like Avril Lavigne, My Chemical Romance and Paramore. “I thought this was a really dope outlet for a new energy I wanted to bring to my music,” she says.
“t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l feat. Travis Barker” was originally unveiled via Beats1’s Zane Lowe as a New Music Daily and has since garnered both critical praise and commercial success. “Smith’s song doesn’t so much make the case for Black women in pop-punk as much as it serves as a reminder that we’ve always been here,” said Jezebel. “It’s a pop-punk banger for the ages.” WILLOW recently performed the single on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. Watch here.
TOUR DATES
*Supporting Billie Eilish
Sept 17 - Life is Beautiful Festival - Las Vegas, NV
Feb 03 - Smoothie King Center - New Orleans, LA*
Feb 05 - State Farm Arena - Atlanta, GA*
Feb 06 - Spectrum Music Center - Charlotte, NC*
Feb 08 - PPG Paints Arena - Pittsburgh, PA*
Feb 09 - Capital One Arena - Washington D.C.*
Feb 10 - Bryce Jordan Center - University of PA*
Feb 12 - KeyBank Center - Buffalo, NY*
Feb 13 - Wells Fargo Center - Philadelphia, PA*
Feb 15 - Centre Bell - Montreal, QC CANADA*
Feb 16 - Scotiabank Arena - Toronto, ON CANADA*
Feb 18 - Madison Square Garden - New York, NY*
Feb 19 - Madison Square Garden - New York, NY*
Feb 20 - TD Garden - Boston, MA*
Feb 22 - Prudential Center - Newark, NJ*
April 08 - The Forum - Inglewood, CA*
PRAISE FOR
lately I feel EVERYTHING
"An infinitely fresh sound that succeeds through its unpredictability." - NPR
“Easily the best and most assured music of her career so far, the album is the first to maximize her talents, externalizing the pent-up, dialled-up angst of her adolescence." - The New Yorker
"The resulting record is a blast—often angry, a little bratty, always incredibly fun." - GQ
"The creative force is paving the way for Black women in pop-punk and beyond." - SPIN
"Willow is back, and she’s stepping on necks on the way...Shredding on the guitar, she radiates power." - New York Magazine
"Willow Smith goes full pop-punk... the song draws from the music of Paramore, Fall Out Boy, and Barker’s own band Blink-182, with hard-hitting percussion and pop-punk power chords on guitar.." - Rolling Stone
"Willow Smith is ready to rock your world...fully embraces the alt-rock and pop-punk sound. Complete with her own guitar playing and a head-banging chorus" - Harper’s Bazaar
“She is the moment...Over roiling guitars and Barker’s thunderous drums...belts in her best pop-punk voice about seeing right through the haters in her life. It’s super catchy. In its accompanying video, she channels the nostalgic fish-eye performance vids of pop-punk’s golden era with her own chic twists...No doubt the pop-punk heroes of her youth, Hayley Williams, Gerard Way, and Patrick Stump, would be proud." - NYLON
"lately I Feel EVERYTHING is a solid venture into angst, love, and coming of age, the three emotional pillars of pop-punk." - Jezebel
"Willow’s debut album proves that pop-punk isn’t going away anytime soon... Lately I Feel Everything feels simultaneously nostalgic for the mall punk of the early 2000s and forward-thinking in its delivery." - UPROXX
"A guitar-heavy track that sees the rap star take a significant sonic shift and swap intricate lyrical flows for thrash-y pop-punk powerchords...Wielding an Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent signature, Smith serves up a series of sweet melodic slides and oversized open-string chordal hooks over a moody bass guitar line, all of which are driven along by Barker’s high-octane drum part." - Guitar World
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