jhené aiko: the healer
One
skill that many musicians can use to their advantage is allowing their music to
create positive influential, political and social impacts on their fans and
listeners, making it entirely possible for us to hold emotional relationships
with the artist’s music. I believe true, honest music can be beautifully produced
through real-life intrinsic experiences and circumstances, allowing emotion to
flow more freely and naturally causing genuine music to be produced. In this
way, through her 12 track 2014 album release ‘Souled Out’, as fans we almost experience
a portion of Aiko’s life and some of the occurrences she has faced.
My
admiration for Jhené increases at
the thought of her courage to relive painful problems in the past and by
sharing it with her fans she has almost given a part of herself to us all allowing
for a more spiritual connection to the music she births to us.
In
2012 Aiko lost her older brother Miyagi Chilombo to a battle with cancer. If ‘For
My Brother’ wasn’t enough of a beautiful tribute to him, Jhené pays further acknowledgement to her
brother by ending with clips of him on her tear-jerking emotional video for ‘Eternal
Sunshine’ a song featured on the album. The music video consists of Ms Aiko herself,
her daughter Namiko-Love and her sister Miyoko depicting an unfiltered reconstruction
of a car crash that Jhené and her
daughter both experienced, she sings ‘if I were to die today, there’s not a
thing that I would change I’ve lived well’ – a hopeful outlook to extremely solemn
visuals, reflecting Aiko’s optimistic character wholly.
Reading
the comments on YouTube below Jhené
Aiko’s ‘Way Aren’t You Smiling? (WAYS)’ it came to my attention the significant
impact that this particular song from the album has had on the fans. There was
a substantial amount of comments mentioning the encouraging influence Jhené’s music has had on their lives and how
it has helped them in delicate situations, something undoubtedly commendable on
her part as a performer. Accompanied by smooth, bluesy vocals, we are reassured
that ‘everything will turn out fine’ almost begging in question to us fans: ‘why
aren’t you smiling?’ reminding people including herself it’s always important to
keep your head up through bad situations as things can only get better. These
lyrics alone have had a dramatic effect on my own life as well as the people
close to me who have been faced with awful situations at a point in time,
reiterating the love I have for Jhené
Aiko and the healing power of her music.
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