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<\/a>\u201cGrowing up, my coping skill was definitely to be strong, and just push through and, you know, kind of bury it down, and I think we all just wanted to be like the normal kid,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Now as an adult, she\u2019s ready to not only process her emotions, but to transform her trauma into something she feels is powerfully cathartic. Writing and music have been integral to her journey\u2014but so has the act of putting the music out into the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWriting and, actually, the art of sharing as well was part of my healing,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s the whole reason I wrote this song, and shared this song.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Jaxxee has a lot to heal from. \u201cGone\u201d primarily focuses on the emotional journey she took when she finally allowed herself to spiritually break free from her father, once she reconnected with him after 20 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t give you any more pieces of me, you know?\u201d she says. \u201cAnd for me, it\u2019s just, you know, someone that made you be small, over and over again, and use that as power… to finally take that power back. We all want to do that at some point, so it felt like it was time.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the most cathartic aspects of the release for Jaxxee was a creative partnership with her 14-year-old daughter, who gave a stunning interpretive-dance performance in the \u201cGone\u201d music video.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll probably always be my biggest accomplishment. The biggest,\u201d says Jaxxee. \u201cBased on [my] timeline, when I was, you know, when my parents were going through divorce, and my dad was going to jail, and I was going through all that, I was around that age. So it was, it almost just felt like the universe, right? I was like, who could play me at that age? And, you know, and here I have my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
In regards to creating art, Jaxxee encourages people to be bold, saying that they have to take the leap and share for anything to come of that creation\u2014and to keep in mind that pleasing everyone isn\u2019t the goal of art. You have to make it for your own fulfilment.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut it out there. Let people see it. Let people like it; let people not like it,\u201d she says. \u201cLet people, you know, take what they will… I know for myself, it\u2019s definitely started to open more opportunities and things and that\u2019s because I finally did it. I put it out there and I shared it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Local soul\/trip hop artist Jaxxee\u2019s debut single \u201cGone\u201d is thematically profound and deeply personal. The song\u2014which dropped in August, followed by the release of \u201cso tired\u201d this month\u2014offers listeners a story about Jaxxee\u2019s life journey, with a glimpse of hope. \u201c[It\u2019s about] letting go of relationships that don\u2019t serve us,\u201d she says, \u201cand, I believe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-1-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24533,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24528\/revisions\/24533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}