Willow Smith rocks harder

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Coping Mechanism, Willow's new album, is her heaviest music yet. Charlie and Willow chat about the making of the new record and the many multitudes of rock music. Music Discussed The Anxiety - Meet Me At Our Spot Willow - Maybe It's My Fault, UR Town, Human Leach, PrettyGirlz, Lipstick, Why, Breakout, Hover Like a Goddess, Curious/Furious, Ur A Stranger Yungblood - Memories (with Willow) Deftones - Sextape Radiohead - I Will Straight Line Stitch - What You Do To Me Killswitch Engage - My Curse Lamb of God - Redneck Primus - Lacquer Head Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop, I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:16.4	Little over a year ago Nate introduced me to the fact that Willow Smith absolutely rocks.
0:24.2	It only 22 Willow has released 6 studio albums and shows off a lot of musical breath.
0:32.5	Her recently released album Coping Mechanism is the heaviest hardest hitting work she's
0:39.3	made yet and as someone who formerly played a lot of loud power chords on guitar, I wanted
0:46.0	to speak with Willow about the making of this album.
0:49.6	So here she is.
0:51.4	I am Willow Smith.
0:54.4	Willow you had a huge success in 2021 with Meet Me at Our Spot.
0:59.3	Yes.
1:00.3	We met at Our Spot.
1:03.2	You wrote a song about catching a vibe that literally caught a vibe.
1:11.4	Yes.
1:12.4	Now you've got a new album Coping Mechanism that has a much heavier, sometimes darker sound.
1:19.0	I'm your love, my intoxication.
1:32.6	What's the story that led up to the creation of Coping Mechanism?
1:35.9	You know, with lately I feel everything, you know, I had always wanted to make a rock inspired
1:43.4	album and even in my first album, Art of Pithicus, most of the songs were guitar driven.
1:54.0	On my second album, The First, I had a song called Human Leech.
1:58.6	You are a human leech.
2:00.8	That was like seven string guitars.
2:07.7	And like growling vocals on the background.
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