After channeling her interior rage and nu-metal bona fides on the 2022 album <COPINGMECHANISM>, Willow goes in the other way on her just-released meditative new single, “Symptom of Life.”
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In an Instagram submit asserting the track’s launch on Tuesday (March 12), the 23-year-old daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith described the video for the track as one thing “for all the gorgeous individuals who have ever gone into nature with their buddies & been guided to a deeper understanding of life collectively by plant medication 🌱🌞 I hope this track and visible can deliver catharsis to anybody who experiences them.”
The character-forward visible — which Smith directed — begins with Smith and two buddies strolling in a forest, the place the singer finds, and discards, a snail shell earlier than laying on her again within the leaves to start her Tori Amos-like musings in regards to the mysteries of the universe. “Pushing and peeling myself out of my disguise/ you now I’m questioning who am I/ If I may attempt to take you again/ I couldn’t outline feeling/ Absence of time/ Realizing all is set there’s nothing right here left to seek out/ The story’s all in my thoughts/ Pushing and peeling the layers that cowl my thoughts/ Wanting into the shadow now I discover the sunshine/ Magic is actual if you see it inside,” Willow sings over a loungey backing monitor that trades the guitar-heavy sound of her earlier effort for piano and jazzy drums.
By video’s finish, Willow is smiling whereas laying on a patch of grass surrounded by a forest of colourful flowers. Earlier within the week she posted the lyrics, explaining to followers that she wished to provide them time to “deeply digest the phrases earlier than diving into the entire composition.” At press time Willow had not revealed if “Symptom” is a one-off like her equally introspective, jazz-influenced November single “Alone,” or if the songs are destined for what could be her sixth full-length solo studio album.
Watch the “Symptom of Life” video beneath.
