Attention Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and all other kid stars of today: you have all been officially made irrelevant.
Willow Smith, the nine-year-old daughter of Hollywood power couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, has released the music video for her first single "Whip My Hair", and I have to say, it's amazing.
The video is everything that a video from a nine-year-old pop star should be. It is incredibly fun, colorful, filled with fierce attitude, and yet remains age appropriate. The imagery in this video is just insane, starting from the all-white room and Willow whipping her paint-dipped hair around to bring it to life. Almost every frame following that opener is just pure pop genius; the choreography, Leiomy from ABDC's Vogue Evolution, the janitor, and the toddler dancing, and of course Willow herself. Willow has more swagger than girls three times her age, and she is definitely a lot more interesting than her contemporaries five or six years older than her. Don't ask me how, but she has a hundred different hairdos and rocks each one perfectly. When Willow walked onto the screen with her hair made up into a heart shape, I flashed back to Lady Gaga in that white bearskin coat in her "Bad Romance" video. Both images gave me the same feeling; a star has been born.
If Willow, with the inevitable guidance of her parents and Roc Nation head Jay-Z, can follow the right path starting with this song, than she might be the first child singer since Michael Jackson to truly become a superstar.
"Whip My Hair" will be released to iTunes on October 26th.
What do you guys think of "Whip My Hair"?
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