“Shame on you for staying the same.”Īfter meeting an amazing guy during a troubled time in her life, Jhené Aiko is all in. “Shame on me for changing,” she says to an old friend before confidently correcting herself. Gliding along a chill guitar riff, Jhené Aiko sings of the transitions she’s made in her life as a wanderer. After running through a few lines from 50 Cent‘s “Many Men,” she sings, “‘Cause I’m just a prisoner of your army of one/ But I’ll fight till the death or until your heart is won.” Singer-songwriter James Fauntleroy woos with backing vocals, filling out the hearty track. On this No I.D.-produced cut, Aiko sings of a lover she won’t quit on. “I gotta keep going,” she later sings several times over, as if pulling herself out of an emotional rut. “You have got to trust the signs,” she coos. Short for “Why Aren’t You Smiling?” “W.A.Y.S.” features an angel assuring Aiko that her future’s bright, and shakes off negative thoughts. He once was a man that, “set aside all your extra pride,” she recalls.
Over twinkling keys and tumbling drums, Aiko veers towards a guy that has got too big for his britches. It’s ‘party of one’ music to overthink with and lines to quote when angry at a significant other–the soundtrack for hard times.Ĭheck out Billboard’s track-by-track breakdown of Jhené Aiko’s Souled Out. Souled Out is an insular album, not meant to spill from nightclub speakers or queued up on playlists at house parties.
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