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26-03-2025
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FKA twigs live in London: reaching for eusexua at an avant-garde rave
It's about half an hour into FKA twigs' long-awaited and rare headline show in London before you feel like you are being asked to experience eusexua with her. The made-up word, which titles the singer's excellent third album, has been described by twigs as the 'moment before an orgasm' or 'the pinnacle of human experience' and entered her consciousness after a month of late-night raving in Prague while on a film set. Here at the striking Greenwich venue Magazine, with its floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over the glistening Canary Wharf, twigs plays only her second full show in the UK since 2019, and mixes the striving for Eusexua with the highly choreographed and avant-garde routines that have defined her live shows to this point. Act One of three in the show – the same trio that split up the new album – is described as Practice. It sees twigs writhing around on stage, stalked by a superb and athletic set of dancers as she plays older tracks 'A Thousand Eyes', 'Mary Magdalene' and 'Hours'. The start to the show feels deliberately reserved, and when a curtain finally comes down on the cube at the stage's centre, the dancers inside are seen desperately clawing to get out. They – and twigs, who's been suspended in the air by chains – are finally let loose at the apex of the new album's euphoric title track as Act Two (State of Being) begins. Her pinpoint choreography thus far makes way for an uninhibited thrash around the front of the stage, pumping her fist as if she's back in the crowd at the rave in Prague. On Eusexua the album, it was refreshing to see twigs have fun after the heaviness of her work up until this point, and the point is even firmer during the live show. View this post on Instagram A post shared by FKA twigs (@fkatwigs) The staples of her previous live shows remain – 'Numbers' features a stunning routine with a sword, while '24hr Dog' sees her perform outrageously advanced pole dancing – but it's the moments when the new lightness and freedom of the Eusexua era come through strongest that she feels most at home. Before 'Keep It, Hold It', the stage turns into a TV set where twigs is harangued by an overly keen and chirpy interviewer. 'The show really feels like a culmination of the darkest times and the most euphoric times of…' twigs says when asked about this current era of her live performance, being cut off by her nightmare of an interviewer, who's clearly bored with her self-mythologising. For an artist who has always been treated – and has treated herself – with utmost seriousness, to see her skewering her own narrative like this is refreshing and welcome. While she stuns the room into silence with renditions of 'Cellophane' and 'Home To You' late on in the show, it's the highlights from Eusexua and sprightly, collab-heavy 2022 mixtape Caprisongs that translate the best, where twigs can shed the avant-garde and conceptual frameworks she's associated with and simply dance. Of all the mesmerising moments in this show, those are the ones that feel closest to eusexua.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's Daughter North, 11, Raps in Japanese on FKA twigs' New Album ‘Eusexua'
North West is showing her multilingual mastery yet again. The 11-year-old daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian is featured on a track on FKA twigs' new album, Eusexua, which dropped on Friday, January 24. North raps in Japanese on 'Childlike Things,' the eighth track on the album. 'Where the wild things are I will be / Lost in a world of childlike things and fantasies,' FKA twigs sings, before North comes in and raps, in Japanese, lyrics that translate to, 'Hello / My name is North-chan / California to Tokyo / Jesus king / God is praise / Jesus is the only true God.' Kardashian, a proud mom, promoted the track to her 358 million Instagram followers via her story on Friday. North West Raps in Dad Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign's 'Talking/Once Again' Music Video North previously rapped in Japanese on "Bomb," featured on her dad's Vulture 2 album, released last August. The music video for the track released in November and featured North and her sister, Chicago, 7, in the desert in a Tesla Cybertruck. (West and Kardashian also share sons Saint, 9, and Psalm, 5.). North has spent time in Japan, telling Interview Magazine in October 2024 what she 'loves' about the country, including that 'everybody's style is on point.' Her appearance on FKA twigs' album comes while the tween is working on an album of her own. North announced Elementary School Dropout, her debut album, last March. The name is a nod to her dad's debut studio album, The College Dropout, from 2004. Ye, 47, has seemingly been in the studio with North as recently as Tuesday, January 21, when he posted a black-and-white photo of her via his Instagram channel. Khloe Kardashian Shares Adorable Video of True Singing to North West's New 'Talking' Song 'This little girl made me love music again 🥲,' he captioned the post. 'She asked me to make beats for her I got back on the ASR Chopped up beats for her album and chopped every beats with my bare hand for BULLY.' While North continues working on her own project, her featured appearance on Eusexua has been met with mixed reviews. Rolling Stone UK called it 'a bizarre misstep on the album,' while The Quietus said, 'it sticks out on an otherwise sophisticated album, and is just plain annoying.' Many fans, however, reacted more positively, sharing their praise for twigs and North via X. 'Never in my life would i thought i be dancing to a fka twigs + north west collab yet here we are,' one fan wrote. 'THE NORTH WEST FEATURE ISNT BAD FKA TWIGS DID IT THIS SONG IS FUN AND CAMP I LOVE IT,' another exclaimed.
