{"id":63578,"date":"2022-03-29T02:07:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63578"},"modified":"2022-03-29T02:07:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:07:26","slug":"fka-twigs-i-dont-have-secrets-im-not-ashamed-of-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63578","title":{"rendered":"FKA twigs: \u2018I don\u2019t have secrets. I\u2019m not ashamed of anything\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

FKA twigs: \u2018I don\u2019t have secrets. I\u2019m not ashamed of anything\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2022-03-26<\/p>\n

Kadish Morris<\/strong><\/a>, Editor, Critic & Poet<\/p>\n

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FKA twigs<\/a>: \u2018I think vulnerability is really hot.\u2019 Photograph: Aidan Zamiri\/The Guardian<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a hellish couple of years, the pop visionary is back. She talks about beating illness, escaping abuse, and the joy of connecting with her Caribbean<\/a> roots<\/em><\/p>\n

FKA twigs<\/a> isn\u2019t special, she says, she just rehearses a lot. \u201cI don\u2019t think I was born with anything more than the rest of the world,\u201d says the 34-year-old singer-songwriter. It might be hard to believe that anybody could do the splits down a pole or wield a sword, Wushu<\/a>-style, the way twigs has done without possessing some divine powers, but it\u2019s all in the training. She can afford private lessons now, but when she started out as a fresh-faced back-up dancer, YouTube tutorials and group dance classes helped her to perfect her craft. \u201cI practise and I practise and I practise. That\u2019s who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twigs has had a spellbinding career, exploding on to the pop scene a decade ago with operatic vocal arrangements, conceptual videos and futuristic instrumentals. In 2014 the New Yorker<\/em><\/a> magazine said that she \u201cdresses like a high-fashion model from antiquity, but her songs promise the very contemporary pleasures of texture and emotional immediacy\u201d. Since then, she\u2019s released several acclaimed albums and is considered a trailblazer in pop<\/a>, R&B<\/a> and Afrofuturism<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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