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Amid her neatly crafted short poetic vignettes, there are random entries scribbled with paper and pen sandwiched in between. Through poignant revealing poems each titled with a numeral and “fish” beside it, she lets us in on Penny’s thought process. “While me and my fellow/homeschooled kids/pray to the stars to be beamed up.”
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“I am from a land/where everyone comes/to pretend to be/something they dreamed up,” she writes on 20Fish. On 2Fish Jhene resurrects Penny back to life. In his presence I was confident and always so sure. “I never thought of him as a separate person, but an extension of myself.
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We were only two years apart,” she revealed in her MAP Mission statement. In all, the three components are labeled as a MAP collectively - a movie, album and poetry book. In conjunction with her latest album and short film, Trip, she has recently released a new poetry book titled, 2Fish.
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Jhene’s latest collection of words are more than just a collection of melancholic love infused songs. But I feel like the wiser I get the more experience I get, and I will develop those words and be able to share, teach, also learn and listen.” A lot of the time it takes me a while to put it into words cause I am a very feeling orientated type of person. “It’s not always words that I’m thinking or feeling.
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Not unrelatedly, the album’s lyrics and the storyline (not to mention the film) heavily feature drugs as Aiko’s character struggles to accept the loss of her brother: In addition to the album title, songs include “LSD,” “Sativa,” “Bad Trip,” “Psilocybin,” “Overstimulated” and “Oblivion.”īut except for the occasional spoken interlude, it’s not an album that requires the listener to pay attention to the lyrics or the story - it functions equally well as “just” music, an atmospheric and romantic listening experience that won’t rock a party but is ideal for a chill evening at home, Having said that, if controlled substances are involved, make sure the environment is a safe one.“My mind is always so full of ideas and solutions for everyday problems,” she says over the phone from Los Angeles. While the pulsing “Only Lovers Left Alive” (credited to Twenty88, Aiko’s project with Big Sean) features a driving rhythm and a radio-ready melody, most of the songs here are hazy and dreamlike, with light beats, wafting keyboards and Aiko’s voice so present and clear it’s practically like she’s in the room with you. Musically, the album is very much in line with the alt-R&B of the singer’s previous releases - 2013’s Grammy-nominated EP “Sail Out” and her ensuing album “Souled Out” - as well as recent albums like Solange’s “Seat at the Table” and SZA’s “Cntrl.” But it takes the style of those records and expands on it, and then some: While “Trip” is fairly unprecedented on several levels, its greatest innovation may be the distillation of a kind of ambient R&B, with most of the beats slow, hazy or absent altogether. The album - which features guest appearances from Big Sean, John Mayer, Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee, Brandy and, er, Chris Brown - comes accompanied by terms like “a 22-song masterwork of love, loss and discovery” and “psychedelic soul opus,” all of which are more or less accurate: Taken on its own terms, it’s a dreamy, innovative, unified and unusual album that can function as either a lean-forward experience with a loose storyline, or an atmospheric-R&B outing that creates an environment all its own. While that subject matter is heavy, “Trip” isn’t a bummer much of it is joyful.