Open share drawer Willowâs 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. Willow Smith wants to enroll at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study physics. She wants to learn about the âbeautiful mysteryâ of the unseeable, she says. But all thatâs apparently five years away. In the meantime, sheâs written an unofficial honors thesis on a different imperceptible force: anxiety, and the sentiments that come with it. Just before the pandemic lockdown last year, she and her creative collaborator (and alleged beau) Tyler Cole rented space at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where they locked themselves in a box for 24 hours to perform the âeight stages of anxiety.â Songs from the duoâs recent album, fittingly titled