Jaden Smith Addresses His ‘Weird’ Behavior Over the Years, Explains He Wasn't Originally Doing It 'on Purpose'

Jaden Smith’s “strange” behavior was apparently just him being himself.

On Saturday, October 19, the alt-rapper shared a post on Xu (formerly Twitter) that addressed his unconventional style choices and interviews.

“All the weird S— you ever saw me was I thought I was totally normal, so now sometimes I try to act weird on purpose so you think it’s on purpose, but at the end of the day I’m trying to fit in all this time and I guess it’s not going quite as planned,” Smith, 26, wrote on the platform.

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The “Icon” musician’s post on Xu came just a day after a Complex an interview he did came out titled “I interviewed Jaden Smith and it was somehow even weirder than expected”.

In the interview, Smith answered several questions from the interviewer with quotes from Twilight.

During the interview, reporter Eric Skelton asked the “On My Own” singer why it was “important” to him to be “weird,” after Smith tweeted a year earlier, “He’s actively working on being even weirder,” per Complex.

“Because I’ve gone through a lot of my life trying to be normal,” he told the publication. “For a long time it was a big deal for me that people thought I was normal. And that bothered me after a while. I started to feel like people didn’t really understand or see me, and I wasn’t really trying to show that to anyone. ”

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Jaden Smith in August 2024.

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Smith explained that it frustrated him to watch people do things they didn’t want to in order to be “normal”.

“Sometimes it’s so frustrating to watch people try to follow ‘normal’ things when that’s not what they really want to do in their art and stuff. It’s very frustrating. And then you see people fall into it and generations of people fall into it, so I’m actively trying to be myself,” he told the newspaper.

Smith released his latest EP, 2024: A Case Study in the Long-Term Effects of Young Love — on which he worked with his own therapist – on Friday 18.10.

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