After his sister Willow received her own signature guitar last year – an out-of-this-world Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent model custom-painted by Covet leader Yvette Young – Jaden Smith, driven perhaps by sibling envy, debuted an equally eye-popping new electric guitar upon the release of his 2021 outing, CTV3: Day Tripper's Edition.
The guitar – an illusory black-and white Fender Stratocaster similar in vibe to Kramer's “Illusionist” The 84 model – first made an appearance on artwork for the album back in August.
But in a new performance video of one of the record's tracks, Your Voice, Smith offers the first glimpse of the psychedelic six-string in action, serving up a series of tranquil clean chords under his smooth and sultry vocal lines.
And the guitar's not the only piece of instrumental eye-candy, either; Smith runs it through a striking rainbow-finished Orange Crush Pro 120 guitar amp and a pair of color-matched cabs.
It's unclear at this stage whether either the black-and-white Strat or rainbow-finished Orange Crush Pro 120 will receive a Jaden Smith-branded production run, but as Machine Gun Kelly – who also has hip-hop roots – received his own signature Schecter last year, and due to Smith's immense popularity, we'd say it's not out of the question.
It should be noted, though, that Smith – unlike MGK – shows no signs yet of foraying into more guitar-centric music, but with the close influence of his sister Willow – and her 2021 pop-punk outing lately I feel EVERYTHING – could he be swayed? Only time will tell…
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Sam was Staff Writer at GuitarWorld.com from 2019 to 2023, and also created content for Total Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar Player. He has well over 15 years of guitar playing under his belt, as well as a degree in Music Technology (Mixing and Mastering). He's a metalhead through and through, but has a thorough appreciation for all genres of music. In his spare time, Sam creates point-of-view guitar lesson videos on YouTube under the name Sightline Guitar.
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