Analysis Of Souled Out By Jhene Aiko

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“Never let anyone make you believe you aren’t worthy of your dreams. You are worthy, very worthy and you will keep thriving to reach those dreams no matter what happens.” These words of advice from my maternal grandmother filtered through my mind as I watched her lay in a casket, three days after having a heart attack. The realization I felt seeing her lifeless, my beautiful, fun-loving, blunt grandmother now lifeless, crushed me emotionally. She was the one I ran to when bad things happened. She gave me amazing advice and at that moment I couldn’t get advice on how to cope from the only person I wanted it from. All I could do was watch as people, one by one, stood in front of her, cried, and walk up to my mother and I to give their condolences. …show more content…

Going through one of these things would break an average person, but it seems that Aiko has objectively reflected on these experiences and has chosen to speak to people through her smooth, mellow, R&B tone with a constant message of affirmation. And that’s exactly what she does in her first full album, Souled Out (Turner, …show more content…

In addition to the song being inspired by him, she mentions him in the song by saying “life only gets harder but you [have to] get stronger/ This is for my brother, I do this for my daughter/ That’s why I keep going, that’s why I keep going.” He was a huge influence in Aiko’s life and his death had to have had a negative impact on her life but she still perseveres, looks ahead, and tells the audience to do the same as she says “Everything will turn out fine” (Aiko, 2014) In Aiko’s fourth song, “Spotless Mind,”of the album she reiterates the theme of moving forward. By asking “Change is inevitable/Why hold on to what you have let go of ?,” she is trying convince the listeners reevaluate their lives and realize that holding on to things that have outgrown them is pointless. She ends the song by scolding herself for “changing,” realizes that change is good so she then scolds the audience for “staying the same” (Aiko,

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