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Jaden Smith’s Ambition is Boundless

He, his sister Willow and his girlfriend Odessa Adlon are … forming a rock band now.
Lauren O'Neill
London, GB

Jaden Smith's ambition is boundless. Back in December, the internet's favourite teen announced his ambition to become a K-Pop star (it's very easy to imaging him doing this, isn't it?), but alongside that, he's set his sights on rock stardom, alongside his sister Willow and girlfriend Odessa Adlon:

Remember that neither Willow nor Jaden are strangers to the music world: last year, he dropped a track and video for a project called Syre (from which he promises new things soon), and she, lest we forget, was responsible for one of the largest pop bangers in history aged nine, so they've got form.

Listening to the clip, it seems like the as-yet-unnamed band is potentially going in a pretty #emo direction – the title of the rough cut, just visible at the top of the video, is "Lost Boy" – which is excellent news for Emo Revival of 2017, because if anyone embodies deep teen emotions it's Jaden Smith (plus, he's got the #cred: check this sweeeet Suicidal Tendencies patch). And with this many musical ambitions, it seems like summer 2017 is his for the taking: his self-awareness kind of singles him out in the famous teen circles he tends to socialise in, and I for one am excited to watch on as he monopolises the K-Pop, rock and R&B markets all at once. It's pretty easy to take the piss out of him, which by now he knows, but he just gets on with it anyway. And to be fair, by the time this project comes out (if anything ever materialises from it) he'll probably have moved on to his next endeavour anyway.

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(Image via Jaden Smith on Instagram)