
Does she still feel the same way? “How could I not when nothing has changed?” she responds. In the 2014 interview, they conveyed their pity for children who were forced to attend “normal” school. On “Transparent Soul”, she sings: “I don’t f***ing know if it’s paradise or it’s a trap/ Yeah, they’re treating me like royalty, but is it kissin’ ass?”īoth Willow and Jaden were homeschooled and encouraged to think for themselves.

Thematically, it tackles generational anxieties but also Willow’s own, less relatable feelings about fame. Before that, in 2020, her song “Meet Me At Our Spot” with friend and fellow musician Tyler Cole spawned an entire dance routine on the social media platform. If you’re on TikTok, you’ve almost certainly heard Willow’s viral, Paramore-influenced single “Transparent Soul”, a collaboration with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. On it, she revisited the angsty Noughties pop-punk she loved in her early teens, including Avril Lavigne and Blink-182. In 2021, she showed real backbone, releasing a new album, lately I feel EVERYTHING (the title forms the acronym LIFE), which has been called one of the best of 2021.

Yet it’s only recently that she’s really made a dent on the music scene, muscling up against fellow Gen-Z artists such as Billie Eilish, with whom she’s touring in February.

She was poised to be a huge child star, silver spoon in mouth. Aged nine, she achieved her first Top 10 single in the UK with “Whip My Hair”, an empowering, Rihanna-indebted pop jam, and became the youngest artist to sign to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. She has done everything since – or at least it seems that way.

