Artist: Jhené Aiko
Song: “Lyin King”
Producer: Fisticuffs
Album: Souled Out
Director: TOCK + Topshelf Junior
Celebrating one year since her debut album Souled Out released in stores, singer-songwriter Jhené Aiko returns with a new music video. Co-directed by TOCK and Topshelf Junior, the spiritual music video takes us to a world of the past, as Aiko stars as a medicine woman looking to fend for those in trouble. She embarks on a journey across the desert to use her powers help early civilization that she envisioned were in trouble. The music video is a visual representation of an open letter that came attached to the clip, which you can read below.
“A mysterious, time traveling medicine woman has a prophetic vision of an early civilization in trouble.
The men have neglected the women and deprived them of love. By orders of their chief, the men of the tribe have taken away the women’s hearts and voices.
The women are powerless. The children are suffering.
The medicine woman travels for many days to reach the primitive village.
Upon her arrival, the medicine woman performs a miracle. She instantly restores the grace of the women of the tribe and gives them their voices back.
The men of this early tribe are not pleased.
With the men of the tribe’s attention, the medicine woman and the women of the tribe begin a ceremony in which they tell the story of how they are taking their voices back.
The chief is infuriated.
The medicine woman leaves the now capable women to conduct a private ceremony for the chief.
The chief is intrigued and frightened.
What he thinks will be a sexual experience turns out to be something very different.
After the ritual is performed, the medicine woman passes on her apocalyptic prophecy of how the world will end due to the lack of love throughout humanity.
The chief experiences ego death. He sees that it starts with him.” – Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo
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