2021-10-21
16 分钟You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
Willow Smith is a singer and songwriter from Los Angeles.
She's also a member of one of the most famous families in the world.
From a very young age, she followed in the musical footsteps of her parents,
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, and released her first single when she was just 10 years old.
Since then,
she's released four albums and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
On her most recent album, she put out this song, Transparent Soul.
It was co-written with her longtime collaborator Tyler Cole,
and it features Travis Barker from Blink-182 on drums.
I talked to Willow about how her upbringing and her musical evolution from her early pop star days influenced the way she made this song.
I don't have any friends.
I mean, I have like two or three friends.
When I was younger, I was very confused as to why people would act the way they would act.
They would act different around me than they would act around other people.
Or just seeing the differences in how I was treated because of who my parents were.
A lot of people will just use you for what they want to use you for.