I keep forgetting to post in here but I've been HARDCORE bopping to this on the daily since it dropped. It's the first thing I've ever listened to from Jhené as well. This has me so excited for her project.
I keep forgetting to post in here but I've been HARDCORE bopping to this on the daily since it dropped. It's the first thing I've ever listened to from Jhené as well. This has me so excited for her project.
Come on you need to get into Jhene. Even Kehlani be bumping bonus tracks on her Snapchat and **** lol.
Jhené was on Instagram Live on NYE and someone asked about a "Maniac" video the director was there and said it was coming. So I guess she went back recently and shot an actual video for "Maniac". She's retweeting tweets about Maniac on twitter now. Maybe they are going to push this as a single.
"There are so many layers to my personality. One of them is very sexual and 'Maniac' is me sharing that side of myself," Aiko tells Rolling Stone. "When I started putting together the concept for the 'Maniac' visual, I wanted to explore what it meant to be manic." To that end, the singer researched old asylums, watched movies on the topic and learned the "bizarre techniques that were used back in the day to treat mental patients."
"I learned that lots of women were admitted for absurd reasons, including being 'nymphomaniacs' and were basically tortured in the name of treatment," Aiko says. "[B][I]Ironically, I released 'Maniac' at a time where I had recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, so my interest in the research was genuine. I think we all have some sort of imbalance, but I also believe that we can overcome it. I find my balance through creating art. The 'Maniac' visual is the story of a mental patient who finds her own cure."