"Girl Feels Good" by FKA Twigs

OK, so blown away...by this incredible track from FKA Twigs' (previously) new album "Eusexua." This song "Girl Feels Good" sounds like a lost track from Madonna's phenomenal "Ray of Light" and I love it. So much.

"Your mother’s sister’s lover’s heart is where there’s healing."
Yes.

I fear the man
Who finds himself lost
In tales of war, delusions of more
Beautiful boys
I wish you knew how precious you are
Your mother’s sister’s lover’s heart is where there’s healing

When a girl feels good
It makes the world goes 'round
When the night feels young
You know she feels pretty
A girl feels good
And the world goes 'round
Turn your love up loud
To keep the devil down

When a girl feels good, you’ll know
When a girl feels good, you’ll know

When a girl feels good
She’s gonna keep you around
When a girl feels good, you’ll know

My city guy
Your boots on the gas of life
Hurry up baby, take your time
Don’t wanna force it
Want you to touch it

My sweet demise
A man who doesn’t know his mind
It’s okay baby, take your time
We’re gonna make it
Wanna enjoy it

When a girl feels good
It makes the world goes 'round
When the night feels young
You know she feels pretty
A girl feels good
And the world goes 'round
Turn your love up loud
To keep the devil down

When a girl feels good, you’ll know
When a girl feels good, you’ll know

When a girl feels good
The honey bees to the flower
When a girl feels good, you’ll know


Twigs made an appearance at the most recent Rick Owens show in Paris, for his Fall Winter '25-'26 collection...wearing amazing Owens boots.

https://eusexua.fkatwi.gs/

"Eusexua" by FKA Twigs

FKA Twigs (previously here) is a singular artist. She has conducted her musical career according to her own powerful vision and I respect that immensely. So I am pleased to see her embark on another chapter by releasing a new album, "Eusexua" out January 24th, 2025. The single of the same name has a jaw-dropping video full of her usual high energy, geometric choreography and some incredible clothing (love the leather and steel banded corset, and do I see Rick Owens' inflatable boots in both black and white?). The narrative is self-explanatory.

She offers the following on her IG:
EUSEXUA has been my practice for the years that it has been in creation. it is my opus and truly feels like a pin at the centre of the core of my artist. EUSEXUA was birthed in chicken scratch, written on the back of my hand in a toilet at a rave in prague, ‘this room of fools WE MAKE SOMETHING TOGETHER’ and we do. we rave, we sweat, we kiss, we make love to the booming thud of culture.
EUSEXUA is a practice
EUSEXUA is a state of being
EUSEXUA is the pinnacle of human experience

She is, of course, speaking of a peak experience.

https://eusexua.fkatwi.gs/

FKA twigs on Artemisia, Catherine, Judith, and Magdelene

In this continuing series from Google called ArtZoom (see Matt Healy from The 1975 discuss a work by Piet Mondrian here), singer-songwriter FKA Twigs muses on the painting "Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria" by Artemisia Gentileschi...   

And here she examines Gentileschi's take on Judith beheading Halofernes.

This unique view of Mary Magdelene is examined by FKA Twigs whose most recent album is entitled "Magdelene."

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/artemisia-gentileschi-self-portrait-as-saint-catherine-of-alexandria

https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/judith-beheading-holofernes

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"Cellophane" by FKA Twigs

In honor of her new album--and first live show in three years in Los Angeles this very night--here is FKA Twigs (previously here) singing her new song "Cellophane" with accompanying video full of arresting visuals and a story of death and rebirth. It is an evolution in her sound, moving away from extreme electronic processing and more into an area where her vocals and emotion take center stage.

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FKA Twigs

Wow, I am so glad FKA Twigs (British-born Tahliah Barnett) is on my radar. Her first full-length release entitled "LP1" is coming this Tuesday, August 12, 2014. But she has previously released two EPs, logically titled "EP1" and "EP2." Her music is somewhat aligned with neo-soul, but FKA Twigs' music is much more abstract, much darker, more experimental. It seems to come from a murky, pre-conscious place... her music is infused with a type of dream logic. Known elements are combined and then fascinatingly distorted, stretched. It all seems somewhat familiar, but it teeters on the edge of disintegration, danger...

In the following three astonishing videos for songs from "EP2," we see visuals that act the same way as her music. These hypnotizing images are simple but their precision is cutting, and their clarity is disturbing. They draw us in, but offer us no entry to any kind of understanding. They are infused with the same kind of dream logic as her music.

"How's That" lurches along from changing tempo to changing tempo while she croons what normally would be a sensual song ("How's that feel? That feels good..."). But the moody, foreboding swell keeps this firmly out of Marvin Gaye terriroty. In fact, we are lost in a maze of manic ping-pong sounds, echoes, and tense, swirling synths. The visuals are a perfect accompaniment, with bodies collapsing, dissolving, and contorting to shapes that have nothing to do with the human form.

In "Papi Pacify," we get something similar: in another universe, this is a slow, sexy R&B jam, but in this universe, it is a crunching, roiling, frightening affair filled with ethereal dread. It rolls slowly over our expectations, ever-so-gently destroying what we think a "soul" or "R&B" singer should sound like. The video of course is equally dark and frightening: desire and violence deliciously fight each other, slipping back and forth, over the line...it seems obvious that FKA Twigs could be the "victim" here, but after a full viewing of her centered power, it could be the man behind her who is in danger...

And finally, the deceptively simple "Water Me," despite its ticking, is a forlorn, warped three minutes of resigned despair.

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