![]() For this album it was the complete opposite and I really wanted to be organized and put in my intentions and not be so vague in my lyrics and to write them before I went into the studio and mull over these ideas and marinate on them. With Ardipithecus, I went in and spent the time producing and didn’t write anything down. I had to do it over and over to get it sounding the way I wanted it to sound. I was learning how to play guitar while recording the album so it was difficult to change all of these weird chords that I want to play but just don’t have the skill to yet. Oh yeah, this is the first little dip of the ocean of Willow, the first little dive. Have you been able to access that while making The 1st? It's so different to feel the vibrations of those strings, there's nothing like it and that’s real music. To feel the pain in your fingers and the vibration on your chest. ![]() But it takes so much more time and concentration to sit down and play an instrument. ![]() Anyone can go on their computer and bring up a drum kit and make a beat. I mean instrumental, like learning how to play an instrument. When you say real music what do you mean? That's what I'm on - just trying to learn the science of my art. My parents told me when I was younger, "You need to be taking a guitar class or a piano class," and I never did it but as I'm growing and realizing that I enjoy real music, I have to learn the science of it in order to really know it. I'm just trying to get my music theory game up. It's been two years since Ardipithecus, what have you been up to? Over the phone, Willow talked about learning how to play the guitar while making the The 1st, a life with zero attachments, and why she doesn’t believe in relationship titles. The young artist addresses the complexities of dealing with leeching lovers, and picks apart the challenge of staying grounded despite the inclination to get mindlessly lost in the whims of a beau. On the album, she also sings about her own new experiences with love. For Willow, the feeling of completion has nothing to do with external factors instead, self-understanding and individuality are paramount. It’s a shot at the delusional ideals that society says we should uphold in order to successfully secure a significant other. For example, on the stripped-down lead single, “Romance,” she sings: “Stop leading girls to the clouds above / It’s so distracting / We can’t focus on self-love.” On The 1st, she gets explicit about the realizations that she’s had on her burgeoning journey to womanhood. ![]() And at the start of her new year, she’s welcoming her growing pains with open arms - and a charged new album. ![]()
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