Lexi Jones: “I’m not my father’s shadow, I’m myself”

At the beginning of the month Lexi Jonesdaughter of the deceased David Bowie He released his debut album “Xandri“, a word that derives from the Greek and means” defender of humanity “.

From many sides the twenty -four year old – Bowie’s younger daughter with his wife Top Model Iman – was accused of being “a copy” of his father, of imitating him.

To defend himself from the accusations, who wounded it, Lexi wrote a sort of poetry entitled “David Bowie’s Daughter – this attracts your attention, right?“In which he specifies that he never wants to be at the” shadow “of his famous father, with whom he would never dream of competing and that he actually doubted that he should have dedicated himself completely to music.

“I am the daughter of a legend, but they are more than her name.
They see the blood, they feel the sound, but they don’t see me, they don’t feel the same.
They compare me to his heights, as if I had to reach his light.
But I’m not here to chase what has already been done.
Loving what I do, I feel I have already won.
Some like what I did, others laugh at how I move.
Yet they want that I carry out a legacy, but this has never been my truth.
I’m not a copy, I’m not a shadow. I’m just a confused girl like you.
I never thought I was good at many things.
I never thought it was worth pursuing.
I’m not trying to be that person who everyone loves and admires. So I’m creating my rhythm, letting my true ego show himself.
But nobody knows how you can feel to be constantly desperate and then, in the end, to say ‘Fuck’ and to be compared to everyone
But I will continue to move, I will continue to be myself even when the world is difficult to satisfy.
I’m not trying to fill his clothes, I’m just trying to find my peace.

The 24-year-old’s album, a project of 12 tracks published at the beginning of the month, combines pop, electronic and indie-rock and is entirely sung of the Jones