Jhené Aiko spends a lazy day in bed with her rumored boyfriend, Childish Gambino, aka actor/comedian Donald Glover (30 Rock, Community), and take us to the past in their new vintage video for her latest hazy single "Bed Peace," the lead single from Aiko's forthcoming much-anticipated 7-track mixtape EP "Sail Out," dropping November 12. The singer explains that growing up in L.A., she's always been around noise and that's why she's advocating a movement for peace.
The L.A. songstress enlists Gambino for the acoustic jam, which she previously debuted for Rap-Up Sessions. "It's a very summer, feel-good type of song," Aiko told Rap-Up TV of the Fisticuffs production. An homage to Beatles icon John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono's 1969 "Bed-Ins for Peace," which was their grassroots approach of protesting the Vietnam War non-violently, and the historical angle provides an unexpectedly good fit for the dreamy alt-soul gem. And the sight of Gambino and Aiko as Lennon and Ono has sparked plenty of dating rumors, but she insists that they're just "good friends" and that "time will tell."
After generating a mountain of hype with a killer mixtape and high-profile features, the 25-year-old is ready to shake up the game with her silky smooth jazz-tinged vocals and original perspective. "It's like bridging the gap between [my mixtape] Sailing Soul(s) and Souled Out,” Aiko explained her new EP. "Sail Out has a lot of the hip-hop/rap influence on it, even with the beats. It's something you wanna put in your car." We are so ready for that Aiko project. See why she's one of R&B's hottest rising stars up top.
In the peace-and-love video for "Bed Peace," we see a strong resemblance to the aforementioned protest, but with an entirely different approach. 2013's celebrities are everywhere at once, able to ask and be asked questions directly via social media, no matter if they're in bed, at the gym, or on a shoot. Both the rapper and songstress get up close and personal, as these two play a couple staging their own bed-in, dressed in all-white pajamas, in their high-rise apartment, playing with flowers and taking bedside interviews from reporters one by one, as Aiko explains what it means to her to "sail out," and the clip fits in with the song's inspiration.
The L.A. songstress enlists Gambino for the acoustic jam, which she previously debuted for Rap-Up Sessions. "It's a very summer, feel-good type of song," Aiko told Rap-Up TV of the Fisticuffs production. An homage to Beatles icon John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono's 1969 "Bed-Ins for Peace," which was their grassroots approach of protesting the Vietnam War non-violently, and the historical angle provides an unexpectedly good fit for the dreamy alt-soul gem. And the sight of Gambino and Aiko as Lennon and Ono has sparked plenty of dating rumors, but she insists that they're just "good friends" and that "time will tell."
After generating a mountain of hype with a killer mixtape and high-profile features, the 25-year-old is ready to shake up the game with her silky smooth jazz-tinged vocals and original perspective. "It's like bridging the gap between [my mixtape] Sailing Soul(s) and Souled Out,” Aiko explained her new EP. "Sail Out has a lot of the hip-hop/rap influence on it, even with the beats. It's something you wanna put in your car." We are so ready for that Aiko project. See why she's one of R&B's hottest rising stars up top.
In the peace-and-love video for "Bed Peace," we see a strong resemblance to the aforementioned protest, but with an entirely different approach. 2013's celebrities are everywhere at once, able to ask and be asked questions directly via social media, no matter if they're in bed, at the gym, or on a shoot. Both the rapper and songstress get up close and personal, as these two play a couple staging their own bed-in, dressed in all-white pajamas, in their high-rise apartment, playing with flowers and taking bedside interviews from reporters one by one, as Aiko explains what it means to her to "sail out," and the clip fits in with the song's inspiration.
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