


that same feeling that I have to release ,” Aiko revealed. Doing ‘Triggered’ and several other songs. “When I’m going through something, it actually flows out easier for me. “ just kept singing until said everything I needed to say,” she explained. Her and her longtime producers Fisticuffs started the emotive, piano track with a few instruments before Aiko took the beat to her home studio to record it herself. That’s how her latest song, the scorned lover ode “Triggered (Freestyle),” was created. it's something i moved on from the moment i expressed it. it is new to you because ur just now hearing it, but for me. I’ll tell, ‘I have these melodies, just give me a metronome’ and we’ll build music around what I did.” They start off with me either having something in my head and I’ll sit down with my keyboard player or Fisticuffs. Her process of making such soulful music is as natural and organic as her beauty. REVOLT News | Jhene Aiko releases "While We're Young" visual following audio leakīeyond her beauty, the recording artist exists in many people’s minds as an ephemeral voice as soft as an angel’s whisper with lyrics on love and despair. “You should straighten her hair so she could look more Asian or you should keep her hair natural and curly, and put a little bronzer on her so she look more black.” “When I was 12 13, someone told my mom, ‘You should really play up one or the other,” Aiko recollected. “When I started going on auditions, they would put me for roles the Spanish girl, or the Japanese girl or the black girl.”Īlmost two decades later, Aiko still remembers the pressure from people for her to conform to the industry’s stereotypes. In the past, her natural beauty limited the ethnically mixed songstress, who has been appearing on screen since B2K’s “Uh Huh,” music video in 2001. As of late, Aiko has began to embrace her natural style while still having enough experience with makeup to feel comfortable enough to do YouTuber Bretman Rock’s makeup onstage at Beautycon.
