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Daily Mail
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
FKA Twigs clears visa drama as she hits stage at star-studded GITANO NYC opening
FKA Twigs lit up the stage Thursday night at the star-studded grand opening of GITANO NYC, marking her first U.S. appearance since canceling tour dates over visa issues. The British sensation, looking ultra-glam in a sleek, formfitting gown, wowed the crowd — which included Chloë Sevigny, Luann de Lesseps, and Adam Lambert — with her signature sultry vocals and magnetic stage presence. The ultra-chic venue, complete with New York's largest disco ball imported from Mexico City, set the perfect backdrop for the dazzling night. Twigs later posed for photos alongside Sevigny, Lambert, and GITANO founder and CEO James Gardner, cementing her spot as the evening's main attraction. Adding even more heat to the night, the party featured a fiery cabaret set from Violet Chachki and performances by Gitano Tulum dancers, plus DJ sets from Tom & Collins and Amber Valentine. The jaw-dropping comeback comes after Twigs was forced to axe her North American tour when a production team blunder left her without a U.S. work visa. The ultra-chic venue, complete with New York's largest disco ball imported from Mexico City, set the perfect backdrop for the dazzling night She had called the tour 'challenging' behind the scenes, which led to the string of cancellations and postponed shows. The 'heartbroken' singer, 37, announced she's been forced to back out of her shows in Chicago, Toronto and New York because the 'correct paperwork' wasn't filed. In a video posted on X, she explained: 'Hi everyone, I wanted to come on here to talk to you and address some things that have been happening behind the scenes in my world. 'Behind the scenes practically with production and the more practical side of putting this tour together so today I was informed that production did not fill out the correct paperwork in a timely manner to have our visas to come for the USA to perform. 'I don't take this lightly, I am completely devastated to be honest with you, I am heartbroken.' 'So with that being said, I will be rescheduling these shows and information will be coming on that very shortly. I can't wait to bring Eusexua to you, it's truly been one of the greatest achievements of my life.' FKA twigs was due to perform in Chicago, Illinois on March 26 and in Toronto, Canada on March 30 which would have been followed by two shows in New York on April 3 and 4. In January, FKA twigs opened up on what inspired her album EUSEXUA - and the 'healing programme' she created alongside it. She appeared on the latest episode of Spotify 's Countdown To podcast series, where she was interviewed by legendary singer-songwriter Imogen Heap. Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett, shared her insights into the album's origins and what the word means to her, ahead of its January 24 release. Along with the coining of the term EUSEXUA, FKA twigs has created THE ELEVEN: eleven pillars of movement, designed to be a form of self-healing, every one being informed by her lifelong study of movement as a dancer. Describing the album, the singer said: 'EUSEXUA is really this mixture of slightly psychadelic, childlike, playful exploration of what it is to be human. But then mixed with that, this raw, dirty, hard, sexual grit as an undertone.'
New European
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New European
The rise of recession pop
Finally, I open Spotify and put on my 'daylist', a feature that curates ever-changing playlists catered to the time of day and my own particular tastes. This morning, it decides I'm having a 'recession pop club classics Tuesday morning' and spits out hyper-hedonistic songs by Charli xcx, FKA twigs and Shygirl. I let the bass thump through my headphones and load the washing machine. It's a gloriously sunny day in London and I'm feeling optimistic. I wake up, chug a glass of water, drink my coffee and eat a high-protein breakfast. I check the news – mostly bad – then turn to social media for some algorithmic affirmations. A TikTok tarot reader predicts that all my dreams are about to come true; Instagram informs me I have two new followers; the horoscope app Co-Star tells me that, today, I have 'power in thinking and creativity'. About time. The first time Spotify used the word 'recession' to describe a playlist of club bangers I winced. Songs with hooks such as 'I don't care', 'Just dance' and 'The world is my oyster' hardly felt like a fitting soundtrack to the current state of society – an economic landscape where supermarkets are security tagging bottles of olive oil, while one in five people in the UK lives in poverty. But over time, as I've absorbed more and more pop culture through screens, I've realised that this linguistic irony is simply the current vibe. A recession is no longer only understood as economic decline; it's a mood, an aesthetic and an in-joke. Just look at how the term 'recession indicator' has recently infiltrated fashion and pop culture commentary. Once the preserve of financial analysts, it's now being used to explain everything from the runway returns of peplum tops, office wear and Alexander McQueen skulls, to beauty trends like 'recession blonde' (aka 'I can't afford to get my roots touched up'). On social media, users are racing to identify the most obscure and unlikely recession indicators for clout – the increasing use of fresh fruit and vegetables in fashion campaigns, for instance, or Coachella's dwindling ticket sales. The term has appeared in fashion articles published by Vogue Business, GQ and Dazed. For $58, you can even buy an ironic 2008 financial crisis memorial T-shirt, courtesy of Praying, the edgy, celeb-loved IYKYK brand that last year dropped a Melania Trump hoodie. Where's all this coming from? Blame Lady Gaga. Not for the actual looming recession, of course – we can keep pointing fingers at Donald Trump for that – but for the zeitgeist's casual reappropriation of the word. You see, 'recession pop' was first coined in a 2009 Irish Independent article by the journalist Ed Power, who made the case that Lady Gaga, with her extraterrestrial costumes and dance-till-you-die ethos, was a perfect 'pop star for the credit-crunch era' – she provided escapism, basically. Fast-forward 16 years, and the same can be said about Charli xcx, whose unrelenting and unapologetic dedication to the sesh borders on nihilism. 'Should we do a little key? Shall we have a little line?' she sings on 365, before proclaiming that she 'never go[es] home, don't sleep, don't eat'. It's little wonder, then, that the term resurfaced last July, while brat summer was at its peak. It also helps that pop culture has generally looked back at the late noughties and early 2010s through rose-tinted glasses in recent years. The post-pandemic 'indie sleaze' revival valorised the music and aesthetics of the era's hedonistic club culture; people like Beth Ditto, Sky Ferreira and legendary party photographer The Cobrasnake began appearing on mood boards again; new artists such as The Dare, The Hellp and Fcukers set to work updating the indie sleaze sound for a new generation. At first, everyone assumed that the return of these trends was nothing more than the latest stop on fashion's quickening nostalgia loop – we'd already exhausted the 90s and early noughties, after all. But once people cottoned on to the economic parallels between now and then, there was no going back. Everything is now a 'recession indicator'. We're steeling ourselves for the next great depression by satirising it into fads. It hardly helps that Lady Gaga has taken a break from cinema and returned to form as a pop disruptor. But the real queen of recession pop 2.0? Kesha, whose new single with T-Pain, Yippee-Ki-Yay, dropped just before Trump's tariffs. 'Heard there's recession or something,' reads a caption on one of her promotional TikTok videos, as she pretends to read the Los Angeles Times business section. 'Oh we may not be eating, but keSha [sic] keeps us fed,' reads one comment. This is all par for the course in Gen Z-Millennial internet humour, a specific blend of layered irony and absurd juxtaposition that tackles existential dread with memes. Yes, it's partly a consequence of being 'too online'. But it's also a result of growing up and realising the world won't work for us in the same way it did for our parents. As adults, we've known nothing but crises and political chaos – corrupt leaders, wars, riots, a pandemic, failing job, property and stock markets, crumbling healthcare systems and backslides into misogyny, racism and classism. Humour has always been a fantastic coping mechanism, but right now, it often feels as if the only way to assert a semblance of control is to admit we have none, via jokes and vibes. I meme, therefore I am. Yet, as we hurtle towards what appears to be an inevitable global recession – which would make it the UK's third since 2020 – I can't help but find these offhand references in pop culture a little dystopian. The very idea of a recession is being repurposed and commodified, training us to disconnect from the real, brutal consequences of economic hardship: unemployment, homelessness and widening inequality, as if it could get any worse. I get the jokes. I understand the desire to escape, dance the night away and live a carefree life. I, too, wish I could numb myself to reality with unbridled hedonism. But when I see the word 'recession' in pop culture commentary, it reminds me of how I felt last summer, when typically left-leaning people began ironically praising Trump's comedic timing. In the end, the joke is always on us. Later in the week, on another gloriously sunny day in London, I am once again in a good mood, fuelled by a litany of dopamine hits delivered through my phone and a purposeful decision to avoid checking the news – today, I am gifting myself a 'delulu' and 'smooth brain'. Then, I get a cold, hard reality check: a source of income I'd been relying on unexpectedly disappears. Another casualty of the economy. I return to my recession pop playlist and burst into tears in the street. Selena Gomez's new single Bluest Flame floods into my ears. One line, in particular, stands out amongst the sugar rush optimism and excessive auto-tune: 'I just wanna go insane'.
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
FKA twigs sparks outrage among fans after cancelling more shows due to ‘visa issues'
FKA twigs has infuriated fans after announcing that she has pulled out of Coachella Music Festival and cancelled the remainder of her North American tour dates. The singer, 37, who recently postponed several of her Eusexua US tour dates last month, explained on social media that the cancellations were due to 'ongoing visa issues'. Twigs, real name Tahliah Barnett, was scheduled to play at Coachella in Idaho, California on 11 April and 18 April this month. She also cancelled her show at AXE Ceremonia in Mexico City this weekend. In a post shared to Instagram, FKA twigs explained: 'I'm devastated to share the news that due to ongoing visa issues i am not able to see through any of my scheduled tour dates for the remainder of April across North America, including Ceremonia and Coachella. She continued: 'It pains me to say this because I am so excited to bring you a creation that I have poured my soul into and I believe is amongst my strongest work and I know this news impacts so many of you that have already made plans and spent money in order to see these shows. 'I promise that I am working to reschedule the affected dates as quickly as possible. For headline shows, please refer to your point of purchase for details and refund information. Back to you all with more updates as soon as I have them – in the meantime here are some of my favourite parts of the show that we worked so hard to create,' the singer signed off, alongside a selection of photos from other tour dates. Fans were quick to vent their frustrations over FKA twigs announcement, with many pointing out the singer has pulled out of Ceremonia festival three times in recent years. View this post on Instagram A post shared by FKA twigs (@fkatwigs) 'Again, girl??' one person asked. 'What's the point of spending money on tickets, flights, and hotels just to get canceled on for the third time? You've had months to sort this out... Visa issues at your big age? Be serious. Your fans deserve respect.' Meanwhile, another fan – who had already travelled to Mexico to see FKA Twigs perform – dubbed the singer 'unprofessional' and pointed out the singer doesn't 'need a visa to perform here'. 'This is the third time I've bought tickets to see you and the third time you cancel,' they said. Another social media user added: 'WHY do you want the whole world to turn against you? how can you afford all of those fines for last minute show cancellation? 'If you really wanted to do these shows you could've show up with a few people in your team and yourself, we wanted YOU, in mx you don't even v1sa lmao.' On X/Twitter, another fan in Mexico said: 'Third time you cancel at the last moment', and suggested she might 'lose fans' because of the decision. However, others defended FKA twigs, with one person writing, 'we love you forever and can't wait to see the show when you're able'. Meanwhile, another supporter added: 'All in good time we know you won't disappoint.' The Independent has contacted FKA twigs' representatives for comment. It comes after FKA twigs postponed several of her Eusexua US tour dates due to her visa paperwork not being submitted on time last month. This followed earlier postponements of the tour's initial shows in Prague and Berlin, which were attributed to shipping issues. The tour comes after the singer released her third studio album of the same name in January, which peaked at number three on the UK albums chart.
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
FKA Twigs drops out of Coachella and reschedules more dates due to ‘visa issues'
FKA Twigs has said she is 'devastated' to drop out of the Coachella festival and reschedule more Eusexua tour dates due to ongoing visa issues. Last month, the 37-year-old singer postponed US dates after she said an error meant visa 'paperwork' was not submitted in time. She wrote on Saturday morning that she will not perform at both weekends of Coachella in Indio, California, later this month and Axe Ceremonia in Mexico City on Sunday. View this post on Instagram A post shared by FKA twigs (@fkatwigs) The Cheltenham-born singer said: 'I'm devastated to share the news that due to ongoing visa issues I am not able to see through any of my scheduled tour dates for the remainder of April across North America, including Ceremonia and Coachella. 'It pains me to say this because I am so excited to bring you a creation that I have poured my soul into and believe is amongst my strongest work and I know this news impacts so many of you that have already made plans and spent money in order to see these shows. 'I promise that I am working to reschedule the affected dates as quickly as possible. 'For headline shows, please refer to your point of purchase for details and refund information. Back to you all with more updates as soon as I have them — in the meantime here are some of my favourite parts of the show that we worked so hard to create.' She had been due to be at the Knockdown Centre in New York, and the Bill Graham Civic Centre in San Francisco, in April and is set for performances at Spanish festival Primavera Sound and Chicago's Salt Shed in June. The singer, whose real name is Tahliah Barnett, just completed the UK and Europe leg of her tour with a performance in London on March 22. She has also rescheduled the first two dates of the tour in Prague and Berlin, citing 'shipping issues' as the reason. The tour comes after the singer released her third studio album Eusexua in January, which peaked at number three on the UK albums chart.
The Independent
05-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
FKA twigs sparks outrage among fans after cancelling more shows due to ‘visa issues'
FKA twigs has infuriated fans after announcing that she has pulled out of Coachella Music Festival and cancelled the remainder of her North American tour dates. The singer, 37, who recently postponed several of her Eusexua US tour dates last month, explained on social media that the cancellations were due to 'ongoing visa issues'. Twigs, real name Tahliah Barnett, was scheduled to play at Coachella in Idaho, California on 11 April and 18 April this month. She also cancelled her show at AXE Ceremonia in Mexico City this weekend. In a post shared to Instagram, FKA twigs explained: 'I'm devastated to share the news that due to ongoing visa issues i am not able to see through any of my scheduled tour dates for the remainder of April across North America, including Ceremonia and Coachella. She continued: 'It pains me to say this because I am so excited to bring you a creation that I have poured my soul into and I believe is amongst my strongest work and I know this news impacts so many of you that have already made plans and spent money in order to see these shows. 'I promise that I am working to reschedule the affected dates as quickly as possible. For headline shows, please refer to your point of purchase for details and refund information. Back to you all with more updates as soon as I have them – in the meantime here are some of my favourite parts of the show that we worked so hard to create,' the singer signed off, alongside a selection of photos from other tour dates. Fans were quick to vent their frustrations over FKA twigs announcement, with many pointing out the singer has pulled out of Ceremonia festival three times in recent years. 'Again, girl??' one person asked. 'What's the point of spending money on tickets, flights, and hotels just to get canceled on for the third time? You've had months to sort this out... Visa issues at your big age? Be serious. Your fans deserve respect.' Meanwhile, another fan – who had already travelled to Mexico to see FKA Twigs perform – dubbed the singer 'unprofessional' and pointed out the singer doesn't 'need a visa to perform here'. 'This is the third time I've bought tickets to see you and the third time you cancel,' they said. Another social media user added: 'WHY do you want the whole world to turn against you? how can you afford all of those fines for last minute show cancellation? 'If you really wanted to do these shows you could've show up with a few people in your team and yourself, we wanted YOU, in mx you don't even v1sa lmao.' On X/Twitter, another fan in Mexico said: 'Third time you cancel at the last moment', and suggested she might 'lose fans' because of the decision. However, others defended FKA twigs, with one person writing, 'we love you forever and can't wait to see the show when you're able'. Meanwhile, another supporter added: 'All in good time we know you won't disappoint.' It comes after FKA twigs postponed several of her Eusexua US tour dates due to her visa paperwork not being submitted on time last month. This followed earlier postponements of the tour's initial shows in Prague and Berlin, which were attributed to shipping issues. The tour comes after the singer released her third studio album of the same name in January, which peaked at number three on the UK albums chart.
