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Click to viewThis is an important video, but not for any reason that has to do with the video or the music. The song itself is quite catchy (although the theme of the video seems to have been ripped off from de Blob).
Due to my peculiar and useless gift I am aware that Will Smith has gone on record saying his box office success is owed to his supposed ability to anticipate trends of popular culture. I don't remember exactly when and where I read this, so I can't point to a particular source. It certainly seems self-indulgent and overly self-congratulatory and somewhat hard to believe (he did choose to appear in The Legend of Bagger Vance, after all), but his track record does seem to speak for itself.
Smith is undoubtedly one of the most consistent hollywood stars. Earlier this year, while appearing on Oprah with his wife, he explained that the two of them had decided to increase their brand as a family. Which is to say, he wants to pimp out his children as if they are products to be associated with his family name. I'm not exaggerating this at all; he didn't use the exact terminology - and I would dig through the youtube video of the interview to quote him exactly, but I can't stand watching him, or his wife, do anything that isn't related to fiction (and in the case of his wife, anything relating to reality either).
After watching him and his wife insist that they wanted to "increase their brand" (I'm actually pretty sure he used that exact phrase) I am now convinced that the Smith parents are either out of their mind, evil or both. Any parents who let their son appear in a remake of The Karate Kid that doesn't even have karate in it has to be some combination of crazy or dastardly. (Seriously, how do you call the movie "The KARATE Kid" and show Jackie Chan telling him he will teach him kung-fu in the trailer?)
But, crazy/evil or not, Willy was right. That movie made money. Even though we're living in the willenium he's willing to share the spotlight with his children. (Only the children he's had with Jada - the son he has from his first marriage's only real exposure in pop culture was appearing in Smith's shitty "Just the Two of Us" video. He doesn't even have a wikipedia page!)
Now, everyone knows about Justin Bieber. Now he's become almost a parody of himself, but at first he was a novelty act. He was a sideshow freak of an entertainer. Will Smith knows which way the wind blows and seeing the young Bieber, he came up with a plan. He decided to out-Bieber Justin Bieber.
What does everyone know about Justin Bieber? 1) He's young 2) He has crazy hair. What is the TITLE of young Willow Smith's song? "Whip My HAIR" Willow Smith is YOUNGER than Bieber and has CRAZIER HAIR than Bieber. She has specifically been tailored to be more Bieber than Bieber. And knowing Will Smith, I have no doubt in my mind that this was his diabolical plan. He is an evil mastermind.