Will Smith's kids are mental

pedro1234

Source: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/

One of the gifts of being young is that particular blend of self-confidence and self-consciousness. Jaden and Willow Smith have managed to turn this form of heady teenage introspection into expression instead of ennui. Willow, the 14-year-old musician whose debut single, “Whip My Hair,” went platinum when she was not yet a teenager, explains that the gift of life is “looking at nature and being, like, ‘Wow, I am so lucky to have a body and to breathe and to be able to look at this.’ ” To which her older brother Jaden, a 16-year-old actor and musician, adds: “And the huge, terrible thing the world would be missing by not expressing yourself.” To that end, both Jaden and Willow, the children of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, released new albums this month, including two tracks by Jaden that make their public debut here.

Jaden’s “Cool Tapes Vol. 2″ is an extension of its prequel mostly in name: “At 12, I was just talking about hanging out with girls because that’s pretty much the only thing I was into,” he says. A few years later, the new pieces are suffused with a different sort of bareness, and a self-guided education in topics such as Archimedean solids and mysticism. On a warm November morning, T sat down with Willow and Jaden on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean for their first-ever joint interview to discuss prana energy, the experience of time and the meaning of art.

Q. What have you been reading?

A.WILLOW: Quantum physics. Osho.

JADEN: “The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life” and ancient texts; things that can’t be pre-dated.

I’m curious about your experience of time. Do you feel like life is moving really quickly? Is your music one way to sort of turn it over and reflect on it?

WILLOW: I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.

JADEN: It’s proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It’s relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

WILLOW: Because living.

JADEN: Right, because you have to live. There’s a theoretical physicist inside all of our minds, and you can talk and talk, but it’s living.

WILLOW: It’s the action of it.

What are some of the themes that recur in your work?

JADEN: The P.C.H. being one of them; the melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else.

WILLOW: And the feeling of being like, this is a fragment of a holographic reality that a higher consciousness made.

JADEN: [bursts into laughter] As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that’s one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest.

How have you gotten better?

WILLOW: Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

JADEN: Exactly. Because your mind has a duality to it. So when one thought goes into your mind, it’s not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you’re thinking about something happy, you’re thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple. It’s a tool for understanding mathematics and things with two separate realities. But for creativity: That comes from a place of oneness. That’s not a duality consciousness. And you can’t listen to your mind in those times — it’ll tell you what you think and also what other people think.

WILLOW: And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.

Do you think of your new music as a continuation of your past work?

JADEN: I think Willow’s had a huge evolution.

WILLOW: I mean, “Whip My Hair” was a great thing. When I look back I think, “Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world. Telling them that they can be themselves and to not be afraid to be themselves.” And I’m doing that now but in a whole different way, coming from source energy and universal truths. People will be, like, “Oh, I’m not going to make a song about exactly how I feel, all the bad ways that I feel, and put it out in the world so everyone can judge me.” But for me, it’s a part of me, it’s my artistic journey.

JADEN: That’s another thing: What’s your job, what’s your career? Nah, I am. I’m going to imprint myself on everything in this world.

How do you write? What’s your process?

JADEN: She gets in the booth and just starts singing.

WILLOW: I mean, the beat is usually what moves me. Or I think of concepts. Then when I hear a beat that is, like, elaborating on that concept, I just go off.

JADEN: She freestyles and finds out what she likes. Same thing with me.

WILLOW: You piece it together. You piece together those little moments of inspiration.

What are you searching for in those pieced-together moments?

JADEN: Honestly, we’re just trying to make music that we think is cool. We don’t think a lot of the music out there is that cool. So we make our own music. We don’t have any song that we like to listen to on the P.C.H. by any other artist, you know?

WILLOW: That’s what I do with novels. There’re no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it’s the best thing.

JADEN: Willow’s been writing her own novels since she was 6.

But do your collaborative relationships inspire you in different directions?

JADEN: Totally.

WILLOW: Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.

How does fashion relate to what you do?

JADEN: Willow just dropped a song (“Cares”), let me quote the lyrics: “I do not care what people say.” We both don’t really care. I like to wear things that I make, but I throw it on as though I was throwing on anything. It looks cool, sometimes.

WILLOW: I like to go to places with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can just go there and be like, “Yep, yep, I’m looking so sick.” But in my regular life, I put on clothes that I can climb trees in.

What are the things worth having?

JADEN: Something that’s worth buying to me is like Final Cut Pro or Logic.

WILLOW: A canvas. Paint. A microphone.

JADEN: Anything that you can shock somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

WILLOW: That’s what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

You mentioned breathing earlier, and it’s also an idea that recurs in your songs.

WILLOW: Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

JADEN: When babies are born, their soft spots bump: It has, like, a heartbeat in it. That’s because energy is coming through their body, up and down.

WILLOW: Prana energy.

JADEN: It’s prana energy because they still breathe through their stomach. They remember. Babies remember.

WILLOW: When they’re in the stomach, they’re so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world.

JADEN: By the chemicals and things, and then slowly…

WILLOW: As they grow up, they start losing.

JADEN: You know, they become just like us.

So is the hardest education the unlearning of things?

WILLOW: Yes, basically, but the crazy thing is it doesn’t have to be like that.

JADEN: Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end. The school that we go to every single morning, we will continue to go to.

WILLOW: Forever, ‘til the day that we’re in our bed.

JADEN: Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

WILLOW: They never want to do anything, they’re so tired.

JADEN: You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.

WILLOW: I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, “Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.” But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.

So what’s next?

JADEN: I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

WILLOW: I think by the time we’re 30 or 20, we’re going to be climbing as many mountains as we can possibly climb.

DeadHand

Jaden can't act.

El Weirdo

pedro1234 wrote: »

Source: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/jaden-and-willow-smith-exclusive-joint-interview/

Fuhrer

This is what happens when morons are told they should express themselves.

Fr_Dougal

Tl;dr

Cba;ygno

pedro1234

My favourite part is this:

You mentioned breathing earlier, and it’s also an idea that recurs in your songs.

WILLOW: Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

JADEN: When babies are born, their soft spots bump: It has, like, a heartbeat in it. That’s because energy is coming through their body, up and down.

WILLOW: Prana energy.

JADEN: It’s prana energy because they still breathe through their stomach. They remember. Babies remember.

WILLOW: When they’re in the stomach, they’re so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world.

JADEN: By the chemicals and things, and then slowly…

WILLOW: As they grow up, they start losing.

JADEN: You know, they become just like us.

Mint Sauce

TLDR.

Summery? Any thoughts your self?

To which her older brother Jaden, a 16-year-old actor and musician, adds: “And the huge, terrible thing the world would be missing by not expressing yourself.”

I think we'd cope

Magico Gonzalez

this is what happens to some extremely wealthy kids when they are born without needing to achieve anything. They disappear up their own bmholes in search of prana energy.

Next comes the hard drug addiction and implosion.

Arsemageddon

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

this is what happens to some extremely wealthy kids when they are born without needing to achieve anything. They disappear up their own bmholes in search of prana energy.

Next comes the hard drug addiction and implosion.

I agree, poncy new-age parenting at it's worst, there's a lot to be said for having to learn the modh coinniollach with a freshly boxed ear.

Arsemageddon

Arsemageddon wrote: »

I agree, poncy new-age parenting at it's worst, there's a lot to be said for having to learn the modh coinniollach with a freshly boxed ear.

:D:D

godtabh

Take their money off them and then lets see how the get on

Magico Gonzalez

Arsemageddon wrote: »

I agree, poncy new-age parenting at it's worst, there's a lot to be said for having to learn the modh coinniollach with a freshly boxed ear.

Keeps you off the smack.

I blame the mental midget, Mr T Cruise for most of this smeg waffle.

pedro1234

Mint Sauce wrote: »

TLDR.

Summery? Any thoughts your self?

When one considers you can't be arsed reading it, and can't spell "summary" correctly, one has to doubt your capability of understanding a synopsis.

4zn76tysfajdxp

If Bill Hicks or Russell Brand had closed their shows with the same stuff people would've gone loolah. :rolleyes:

The_Valeyard

Pretty sure all kids are mental, goes with the territory.

pedro1234

This is also fairly hilarious:

I’m curious about your experience of time. Do you feel like life is moving really quickly? Is your music one way to sort of turn it over and reflect on it?

WILLOW: I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.

JADEN: It’s proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It’s relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

WILLOW: Because living.

JADEN: Right, because you have to live. There’s a theoretical physicist inside all of our minds, and you can talk and talk, but it’s living.

WILLOW: It’s the action of it.

They're poster kids for scientology, and why people should stay away from it.

Bio Mech

Short, concise, to the point. You go op.

Mint Sauce

pedro1234 wrote: »

When one considers you can't be arsed reading it, and can't spell "summary" correctly, one has to doubt your capability of understanding a synopsis.

Regardless, I think you got my point, one from you would have been nice.

Cantremember

Fuhrer wrote: »

This is what happens when morons are told they should express themselves.

Isn't this what you mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSF_J8O2Txo

Donkey Oaty

"Those kids are like totally awesome, the way they discuss awesome topics like time and theoretical physics and stuff." - The New Scientist.

Magico Gonzalez

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Regardless, I think you got my point, one from you would have been nice.

Surely "Will Smith's kids are mental" covers it nicely ?

pedro1234

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Regardless, I think you got my point, one from you would have been nice.

The topic is aptly named. I guess you missed that too.

Uncle Ruckus

pedro1234 wrote: »

This is also fairly hilarious:


They're poster kids for scientology, and why people should stay away from it.

To be fair, what they said about time is actually true. They just expressed it in a very pretentious way.

gordongekko

I can't be arsed reading all that ****e. Can someone summarise what's going on?

nervous_twitch

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

"Those kids are like totally awesome, the way they discuss awesome topics like time and theoretical physics and stuff." - The New Scientist.

Beats 15 year olds talking to Oprah about their latest 12-step programme before getting their arse out on Celebrity Big Brother Factor.

pedro1234

Uncle Ruckus wrote: »

To be fair, what they said about time is actually true. They just expressed it in a very pretentious way.

So you agree that he can make time go slow or fast? Wow mate.

Magico Gonzalez

Uncle Ruckus wrote: »

To be fair, what they said about time is actually true. They just expressed it in a very pretentious way.

Not sure if it was the concept of time thing or the "there's a theoretical physicist living inside your head" carry on that threw me.

Anyway, they're just paraphrasing junk science and eastern influenced new age waftiness in the absence of a formal education.

Home schooling + richy rich + parents tapped into tommy cruise's school of space aliens = will smith's kids are mental.

Joshua J

gordongekko wrote: »

I can't be arsed reading all that ****e. Can someone summarise what's going on?

Smiths kids are into existentialism.

The_Valeyard

Ffs they are kids!!

Let them be kids and express themselves.so what if we find it strange , all part of them finding out who they are and growing up.

cloud493

At least after earth was so bad it was funny.

Magico Gonzalez

Joshua J wrote: »

Smiths kids are into existentialism.

Yeah, that's not really the case.

Not much in existential philosophy about prana energy and little scientists living inside your brain, is there now.

Sure, they're kids. The interesting thing here is the damage done by their dappy parents and their hollywood beliefs, aka tom cruise's church of the spacemen.

looksee

Who is Will Smith?

KungPao

looksee wrote: »

Who is Will Smith?

Played centre midfield for Barnet.

Magico Gonzalez

looksee wrote: »

Who is Will Smith?

Ah here, granda, he's only the fresh prince of xenu.

Bootsy.

Honestly, aren't they a bit young to be taking LSD!?

Joshua J

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Yeah, that's not really the case.

Not much in existential philosophy about prana energy and little scientists living inside your brain, is there now.

Sure, they're kids. The interesting thing here is the damage done by their dappy parents and their hollywood beliefs, aka tom cruise's church of the spacemen.

I don't think existentialism has a set philosophy or rules and is open to interpretation. Am not really up on Scientology but you might be taking them too literally. They are kids so maybe give them the benefit of he doubt.

ceadaoin.

As far as I know, Scientology believes in treating kids like adults. So basically, no parenting whatsoever. These kids don't go to school and have literally no experience of the real world. Besides obviously having material comforts, they seem pretty neglected to me.

Anita Blow

Because living.

Uncle Ruckus

pedro1234 wrote: »

So you agree that he can make time go slow or fast? Wow mate.

Time does not exist in objective reality. It exists as a subjective perception. As such it goes fast when say reading a good book but can be said to move slowly when waiting for a bus.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv6i9n_does-time-really-exist-2011_shortfilms

Mardy Bum

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Yeah, that's not really the case.

Not much in existential philosophy about prana energy

It's in Juno and the Paycock and the fella who says it is the biggest fraud in the play. Poor kids are brainwashed.

Bipolar Joe

They actually sound fucking awesome. I would hang out with them and we would all three of us breathe.

YellowFeather

I wouldn't complain. Their comments are kind of pretentious. But at least they're thinking!!

Unlike many famous children who grow up in the public eye and end up in trouble, these seem like intelligent l'il humans who get to focus on the nicer things in life. And aren't squandering it. If they can adapt a life of celebrity and combine it with well grounded beliefs, why the flip shouldn't they?

And maybe they're right. Why shouldn't they focus on the whimsical sides of life when they have no need to look at the day to day grind? Sure, isn't that the dream?

Their ideas may not be fully developed, but they seem like grand kids.

It will just take some years to see if this style of parenting and growth actually works. But I, for one, see no harm in it and wish them the best.

looksee

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Ah here, granda, he's only the fresh prince of xenu.

Granda?!! Excuse me, I am 27. And where is xenu?

Donkey Oaty

Uncle Ruckus wrote: »

Time does not exist in objective reality. It exists as a subjective perception. As such it goes fast when say reading a good book but can be said to move slowly when waiting for a bus.

Have you ever boiled an egg?

TheBeardedLady

Kids talk gobbledeegook shocker.

wyrn

Uncle Ruckus wrote: »

Time does not exist in objective reality. It exists as a subjective perception. As such it goes fast when say reading a good book but can be said to move slowly when waiting for a bus.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv6i9n_does-time-really-exist-2011_shortfilms

Time does exist, it's the 4th dimension (although admittedly there are some people who argue that time exists completely independent from space). As they say, time is relative and subjective perception is based on personal observation. Take lifts for example - did you know that designers stuck in mirrors in lifts to help pass the time. It was found that the time taken to move between floor seemed quicker if there are mirrors in the lift. Of course it takes the same time but it seems different.

Have to say, the interview was not what I was expecting.

mfceiling

I hate Will Smith and now i hate his kids. To be fair I hated the one he brought on to the Graham Norton show. In fact i think Norton even hated the kid.

I'll probably get up half an hour earlier tomorrow to give me more time to hate Will Smith and his kids...

jacksie66

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razorblunt

Christ they're one beating away from a plane and taxi to Bel Air.

indigo twist

I thought it was hilarious. A pair of intelligent witty teenagers were given a list of (very obviously) pre-approved interview questions. They decided to have some fun and completely take the piss and see how far they could run with it.

At least I hope that's what's happened here! I honestly don't think it's serious ... I hope it's not!!