Willow Performs On ‘SNL,’ Smashes Guitar Through TV Set

If first impressions are all the things, Willow made an enormous one on her debut solo efficiency as Saturday Night Live‘s musical visitor final evening, Oct. 8, with host Brendan Gleeson.

Willow began together with her softer facet, providing up the R&B-rock fused tune “curious/furious,” that confirmed off her pitch-perfect vocals with a little bit of edge in addition to her spectacular guitar expertise. But it was the 21-year-old artist’s second tune on the printed that turned heads as she ripped into the rager observe, “ur a stranger,” screaming into the microphone and ending the efficiency by smashing the guitar she was taking part in right into a TV display prop on the stage. See movies of each performances beneath.

The two songs come from Willow’s new album Coping Mechanism that got here out Friday, Oct. 7 and has been hailed as “boundary pushing” by NME and “powerfully dynamic” by The Guardian whereas Rolling Stone says she “thrillingly mashes up rock history.”

Coping Mechanism is the followup to 2021’s Lately I Feel Everything, that featured visitor spots from Travis Barker and Avril Lavigne. This time round, Willow let her music communicate for itself together with her solely visitor spot being from indie act Yves Tumor on her newest album.

Willow posted concerning the SNL look simply hours earlier than she went reside on the present, sharing a photograph of her and her absolutely leather-clad band on Instagram with the caption, “It’s known as historybeingmade.com.” She additionally appeared on the late-night weekend present final season as a part of Camilla Cabello’s set to carry out their collaboration tune, “Psychofreak.”

Willow lately made information for calling out “older, white men” gatekeepers of steel, noting she’s a fan of bands like Deftones, Lamb of God and Crowbar in an interview with Metal Hammer.

“I think the only reason why it’s older, white men mostly listening to this music is because metal has been gatekept for a long time by these people. [Now,] new people of color are coming to say that that’s really not the way that it should be. Rock is for everyone [and] I’m gonna bring my people to the space and we are gonna vibe it out like we always do… hopefully the old white dudes vibe it out too.”