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FKA Twigs Did This for Herself


The timing of Eusexua and its knotty sexual politics is not accidental.

FKA Twigs — the singer-songwriter, producer, actor, director, and model born Tahliah Barnett in Gloucestershire, England — spent much of 2024 promoting her remake of the cult-classic The Crow and awaiting an upcoming sexual-battery case against Shia LaBeouf. The watery “Keep It, Hold It” melds gentle strings and synths, evoking mid-’80s Kate Bush, until pulsing house drums flood the mix and the singer suddenly raises her voice: “Sometimes I feel like I’m not even trying / That’s when my feet start dancing away.” The peanut gallery that memed its way through Depp v. Heard and the Megan Thee Stallion trial may have a field day with tidbits like the denunciation of puritanically surveilled body counts in “Perfect Stranger.” But naysayers will justify their animosity whether or not facts and logic check out.

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