Lately I Feel Everything
| Willow Smith
Lately I Feel Everything
Lately I Feel Everything (stylized as lately I feel EVERYTHING) is the fourth solo studio album by American singer Willow. It was released through MSFTSMusic, Roc Nation and Polydor Records on July 16, 2021. A departure from the experimental alt-R&B sound of her early works and instead her pop-punk and indie rock debut, it features guest appearances from Travis Barker, Avril Lavigne, Tierra Whack, Cherry Glazerr, and Ayla Tesler-Mabe. -Wikipedia
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NME
expectation-smashing pop-punk chaos.
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Kerrang!
WILLOW impressively dabbles in indie-rock and punk on new album lately I feel EVERYTHING.
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Clash Magazine
At just 26 minutes long, 'Lately I Feel Everything' is hardly a profound or even prolonged experience. In fact, it sometimes feels a bit too quick, with most of its tracks coming in at or around three minutes in length. Overall though, hardly anything is forced and it all feels well presented and devilishly melodic. If WILLOW continues to explore the gritty, more mature confines of pop-punk, her next efforts are sure to be both accessible and brutally honest.
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The Soundboard
It’s a weird, uneven little album that never pretends to be anything different, something that proves massively flawed but also an oddity worth taking a look at.
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The Line of Best Fit
WILLOW’s lately I feel EVERYTHING is a healthy dose of adrenaline and emo energy.
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Peanut Butter Pope
While in the past I have been intrigued by the stylistic exploration of the Smith children, ‘Lately I Feel Everything’ might be the most excited I’ve been made to feel by either. Taking on a new style of music with its own expectations with this much grace is impressive – take that, Machine Gun Kelly!
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All Music
Having excelled on her R&B, pop, and alternative singer/songwriter forays, Willow straps on a guitar for this potent rock blast that bridges pop-punk and '90s alt-rock with an unpolished messiness that is unapologetic, youthful, and a pure thrill.
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Jezebel
Willow Smith's Pop-Punk Pivot Is Fun, and That's What Matters.
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Pitchfork
Willow’s fourth solo album continues to unpack her lifelong struggles with the extremes of human emotion, using a trove of pop-rock stylings from nu-metal to pop-punk to somewhat mixed effect.
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The Arts Desk
This is her fourth album and, where her last couple came from a musically contemplative, indie-tronic, singer-songwriter stance, Lately I Feel Everything ramps things into the sweary pop-punk and metal zone.
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Gigwise
Lately I feel EVERYTHING is an extremely well-crafted foray into pop-punk. Its only setback is that it feels rushed in places – it’s not easy to make such a big album fit into 26 minutes. There are songs like ‘don’t SAVE ME’ could be more fleshed out and given some breathing room to grow. But elder emos need not fear – your beloved genre is in good hands.
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Flood Magazine
Despite the awkward tracking, lately I feel EVERYTHING still feels like a major success. For an artist whose first single was an ode to headbanging, Willow feels more comfortable with herself than ever before while screaming about embracing imperfection and growth. And no, it’s not a fucking metaphor.
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Spectrum Culture
Willow may not be completely in over her head now, but there remains a sense of inconsistency that accentuates how much growing she has to do.
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Uproxx
Naturally, it feels cleansing to lean into the past (Y2K nostalgia). But, as she mines a path for more women of color to rock out in male-dominated spaces, Willow is innovating with intention. It’s a lot to feel at once, but the catharsis is worth it.
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V Magazine
this is a fantastic album that definitely deserves a listen, and doing that with a history lesson on where it all comes from (at least in my eyes, this could’ve just been the whim of a rubber duck, who knows) makes it a more fulfilling experience.
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The Daily Star
Willow’s “lately I feel EVERYTHING” Is a Manic Masterpiece.
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Euphoriazine
Pop-punk fans are more than ready to find and see themselves in her, the things she sings about, and what she stands for, and if lately i feel EVERYTHING is any indication, she’s just getting started.
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The Forty-Five
There remains something slightly hollow and self-consciously perfect about ‘lately I feel EVERYTHING’ – like a television version of a punk band. Even the varying song structures and mangled titles seem manicured. Yet these highly competent songs, polished if not profound, provide easy, harmless fun – and what’s more, given the skill and stardom of its creator, the album has the power to raise the profile of other guitar-wielding women of colour. And that’s never a bad thing.
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Our Culture Magazine
Lately I feel EVERYTHING is spiky and provocative, joyful and passionate. It might not boast a breakout blockbuster track like Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘drivers license’, but Willow’s whole record more than matches her contemporary pop-punk peer’s exemplary effort. If being punk is to show rage and power, then the raw and liberating outpouring here ensures Willow satisfies the conditions. After a decade of sonic exploration, she might have found her natural home.
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The Cut
It’s an album that I’d like to think a 15-year-old somewhere finds and listens to on Spotify, combs through its references to Smith’s own influences like Lavigne and Blink-182, and finds their life completely transformed, bathed in the emotional clarity that Smith gives of herself and has folded into these 11 tracks.
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