FKA twigs

yeah that is a good set

wow that performance fuckin rules

I love her performances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY-DvTt5Ag4

She looked like a freaking sex goddess on that Glastonbury concert.

woaawwa

"good to love" is one of her best ever songs

otm

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdqHtJgXTIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_YsHSKuaqE

i would feel so much better if someone just announced a surprise lp2 release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305ryPvU6A8

"HomePod. The new sound of home. Directed by Spike Jonze. Starring FKA twigs."

i'm glad she's getting that kind of exposure and she's so cute and an amazing dancer but my first reaction to that commercial was "homepod gives you psychosis"

So it's been years. What the fuck is going on?

she's posted on instagram about some health problems which are presumably part of why she hasn't released anything since "good to love". she's announced a few festival dates for this year, her first tour dates since 2016, so i'd hope some new music will be on its way soon enough

So it's been years. What the fuck is going on?

Playing in Australia in May.

Playing RBMA in nyc as well

New single out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLjqFpBh84

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video is incredible

hell yeah

she has been working her ass off on that stripper pole in her IG stories for awhile

The video's amazing (when she first comes stalking out on those heels it's like something from a Cremaster movie), but the song kinda only exists as a soundtrack to the video. The two of them together remind me of one of those commercials for a fantasy video game where a slow piano ballad is playing as explosions are going off all around you and you're shooting lasers at dragons.

It's great paired with the video, but I think it's a strong song in its own right.

This video and this song and the subtly ASMR production = incredible

I am not into this song at all. The video is great, though.

Beautiful song. The video is nice until it goes all CGI though...

first impression was that the video was incredible but the song was meh, but listening to it now without the visuals and it's really beautiful still. is that some vocal percussion I'm hearing towards the end?

she's so strong as a dancer... I've done aerial/acrobatic arts before and pole dancing was just so physically painful for me. every core muscle hurt, your thighs burn, and the blisters that you get on your hands, yargh.

song is great and the sound design feels like a big step up from anything on her debut, so gorgeous

I think her singing is really, really good but I’m not taken by the song

Same after two listens but maybe that will change?

I was not feeling this one at first, I think I have an innate aversion to piano-led ballads. Now I think this song is too damn pretty to be ignored, I love the sparse, weird arrangements, I love her performance, I love the video. I don’t love that she pulled the trick of making me consider a piano ballad as one of my favorite songs of 2019.

I was initially put off by the ponderous bong bong basic ballad intro and in general the song would be better without it but the sound that occurs when she sings 'wrapped in cellophane' redeems that x100.

tbh my main beef with the song is that i can't help but think about the 'roy orbison wrapped in clingfilm' thing the entire time

Is she still w shia labeouf?

Cellophane, Live at The Wallace Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNqXhfUfwgc

holy fuck. also love she deemed necessary to have someone subtly doing the 'percussion' of the song.

She plays an instrument? Cool.

Someone watched the wide lenses in wainscotted rooms of The Favourite.

Am I wrong in thinking of her as in a similar category of musicians as Bjork? Similarly tone deaf on catchy melodies, and deeply reliant on progressive production for her appeal...

You are mistaken! About both her Bjork (“Birthday”, for example, is a very repetitive instrumental song carries entirely by her gift for melody)

Mind, I'm a fan who purchased the prior album. And what brings me back to it is a seemingly tortured soul amidst the metronomes and synthetic expurgate, not the songwriting.

Its perhaps a failing of mine that I can't make out more than half the words here. Maybe I have a similar relationship to FKA Twigs as I had to Disco Inferno, where the more I knew the less I loved...

that was never true about Bjork and while i could have understood that as an argument against twigs at the time of her first EPs etc. it certainly isn't true now

I find her interesting as an artist but the music grates on me in much the same way Tori Amos did

Bjork writes awesome melodies! Right up to Medulla/half of Volta, she was a straight up pop artist - albeit one who seemingly inhabited a entirely different planet. But still, she wrote plenty of actual *songs* with proper choruses and all.

After that, yes, she started becoming more interested in sounds/arrangements more than melodies, and it all sounded gorgeous and forward-thinking but equally kind of same-y and sterile.

That was kind of how I felt about Twigs when she debuted but I think she's grown into a much better songwriter, if never as melodic or straightforward pop as Bjork was at her peak. I do think she's the best music video artist since Bjork though.

How are bjork and/or fka tone deaf on catchy melodies? That’s quite a hongro statement.

It’s hard to sing along to their songs, yes. But that doesn’t mean they write unmemorable songs. I wont even waste my time on this one, sorry.

That said, I can somewhat agree with the point that Bjork hasn’t written anything truly “catchy” since medulla, and fka was more oriented towards production on her early work.

I wont concede that cellophane doesn’t have any hooks though as every section of that one has been constantly stuck in my head for weeks.

can imagine thinking utopia sounds sterile, it's pure dew-kissed freshness

Just assume I've joined the "what do you mean, tone deaf on catchy melodies" dogpile, it will save us all time

After that, yes, she started becoming more interested in sounds/arrangements more than melodies, and it all sounded gorgeous and forward-thinking but equally kind of same-y and sterile.

as the björk poll revealed to me, this is a false narrative

Sterile was prob not the right word there, I just mean kind of tuneless? I think Utopia is a gorgeous record, just overly repetitive in parts.

Anyway, the point was neither her nor Twigs are bad at melodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucL26I7ZN08

Blimey