July 30th, 2021 by KRNB
Courtesy of Red Table Talk
Willow Smith, who recently released her pop-punk album
lately I feel EVERYTHING
, says she wants to help create more space for women of color in rock music.
“I have seen it for so many years just the hate that not even just Black women [experience] but people of different colors, that aren’t white, that want to come into rock music and into this space,” the 20-year-old told the BBC’s
The YUNGBLUD Podcast. “I just hope that I can show young Black girls that… despite the fact that people are telling us ‘We shouldn’t listen to this music. We shouldn’t dress this way. We shouldn’t sing this way.’ We do it and do it to the fullest!”
Willow Smith opens up on the challenges non-white women face in rock music
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