Willow Smith releases her first album titled Ardipithecus last Friday, Dec. 11. All the tracks in the album have been written and produced by Smith and she is proud about her achievement. A lot of onlookers are skeptical of Smith's decision to release an album of this genre.
The general tone of the album resides much on the experimental pop side, a genre of music that does not naturally thrive in the mainstream. Clearly, Smith's album is not made to become Billboard hit, "Ardipithecus is my first album in my entire career and it makes me feel so blessed to be able to share my evolution with the LightEaters as I continue excavating my inner worlds," says Will Smith's teenage daughter.
Willow Smith was introduced to the music world successfully with her hit song "Whip My Hair" but took a hiatus shortly before releasing "3", her first EP.
Her comeback with an album release is definitely very different from the expectations her debut song has predicted for her.
A lot people who has seen her potential as a pop artist no longer take her seriously because of her age and family background. Her dynamic voice ushers the poetic words in her new album's tracks. Most of her tracks are accompanied by simple tracks like a guitar, drums, synth, and active beats. Baeble Music even compares her tracks "dRuGz" and "Natives of the Windy Forest" to an old school Nelly Furtado.
"Common youthful dissociative feelings, sudden long-view glimpses of the self," New York Times describes Smith's album.
References from "Adventure Time" are also found in one of her tracks which tells a lot about the generation where the young artist belongs.
The album also introduces new and unfamiliar producers on some of its tracks like Mel Lewis and her half-brother, Trey Smith.
