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The push and pull of the sort of love we’ve all still been conditioned to believe is the only “great” kind.
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To that end, the poem-like “Lotus (intro)” that kicks off the record is a thesis on the peaks and eventual unceasing valley of a romance, with Aiko crooning, “There was a woman born from the Lotus/Her heart was golden, deep as the ocean/And then this one man, he came and broke it/’Til it was open, just like a Lotus/Oh, yes, there were explosions/She found her focus, the beast awoken.” Of course, listeners are wont to assume that the subject of this revelation is Big Sean, making Chilombo (Aiko’s last name, by the way) far more of a swipe at him than Ariana Grande’s infamous “thank u, next” (even if intended to be an “embracement” of love had and lost, we all know Grande was throwing shade at each of her exes except Mac Miller).Īnd yes, to be sure, “Triggered (freestyle)”–also known as everyone’s theme song–is also about him. It was there that Aiko reacted to the explosive nature of the volcanoes, herself likening them to the ever-present “eruptions” that exist within relationships (yes, a sexual innuendo applies here, to be sure–but so, too, does sheer rage).
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“doing you.” Part of that process stemmed from going to Hawaii to create the music and freestyles for the record. With her previous two albums being titled Souled Out and Trip, it’s only right that Jhené Aiko should continue the motif centered around spiritual exploration with her third record, Chilombo, a sprawling twenty-track odyssey into the depths of heartbreak, recovery and, finally, just being comfortable with yourself again a.k.a.