Independent and able to do whatever she damn well pleases, Willow Kayne has both hands on the wheel with her new single 'I've Got This All Under Control'. Check out the latest cover story for our New Music Friday playlist edit, PLAY.

Words: Stephen Ackroyd.

Willow Kayne has always been a whirlwind of creative energy, a genre-defying artist who's been turning heads since her debut in 2021. In the best possible way modern pop provides, she switches flavours and influences to craft a vibe that's always fresh, always interesting and never, ever boring. With her latest single, 'I've Got This All Under Control', she's keeping up those standards like a kid on a slightly overinflated bouncy castle, jumping around like their life depends on it with the kind of reckless abandon that would make a health and safety inspector weep.

But also, it's a song that also takes on another meaning - because now, actually, Willow really does have it all under her control. With a newfound independence, the world she's created is dancing solely to her own beat - something she's grasping with both hands.

"I've been experimenting a lot since we last talked!" Willow exclaims, her enthusiasm obvious. Willow's shift towards self-reliance isn't just a creative choice or a happenstance of the fickle stupidity of a music industry so concerned with box-ticking that it's unable to elevate a star to where she belongs. It's the unavoidable truth of an artist with so much creativity in her engine that she has to keep moving at all points. "I've made a new project," she confesses, explaining that she's "just been focusing on making things for myself."