New tune is coming from FKA Twigs, and it’s going to be happier than ever.
Twigs, 36, hit up her Discord server on Tuesday, January 16, to rejoice her birthday and communicate along with her lovers. All through the chat, she printed that she’s been within the studio and dealing on her subsequent album with digital musician (and her widespread collaborator) Koreless. Twigs hinted that different “talented friends” can be a part of her drawing close LP, which is “coming out this year.”
“I moved to Prague a couple summers ago, fell in love with techno,” she mentioned, consistent with NME. She added that her upcoming album “isn’t techno, but the spirit is there for real.”
Twigs went on to notice that the file’s tone is lighter than previous tune. “It’s deep but not sad,” she mentioned. “I’m not sad anymore.”
This album could be Twigs’ follow-up to 2022’s Caprisongs. She mentioned that her prior free up “was collab heavy” and that this subsequent mission can be much less so. “I don’t like to repeat myself,” she wrote.
When requested what tune she had on repeat lately, Twigs mentioned she was once busy “finishing my album, so not really listening to a lot of music right now.” Alternatively, she did upload, “I like Two Shell.”
Twigs’ discuss her upcoming tune got here at the heels of controversy surrounding her March 2023 Calvin Klein Advert. The United Kingdom’s Promoting Requirements Authority introduced on January 10 that her advert was once banned for portraying her as a “stereotypical sexual object,” claiming the picture was once “likely to cause offense.”
In one of the vital marketing campaign’s black-and-white pictures, Twigs posed nude however had a Calvin Klein blouse masking maximum of her frame. Twigs replied to the ban with an Instagram put up, writing that she didn’t “see the ‘stereotypical sexual object’ that they have labeled me.” As a substitute, she believed the picture confirmed “a beautiful, strong woman of color whose incredible body has overcome more pain than you can imagine.”
“I am proud of my physicality and hold the art I create with my vessel to the standards of women like Josephine Baker, Eartha Kitt and Grace Jones,” she added, noting that the ones icons “broke down barriers of what it looks like to be empowered and harness a unique embodied sensuality.”
Calvin Klein replied to the ASA’s resolution through denying the pictures have been destructive and famous that Twigs and Kendall Jenner, who additionally posed for a similar spring marketing campaign, mentioned the pictures gave them “a sense of empowerment and confidence.”
The ASA’s resolution additionally confronted public backlash, with many bringing up a double same old after The Undergo’s Jeremy Allen White posed for Calvin Klein’s spring 2024 marketing campaign in a an identical state of undress; his pictures, on the other hand, didn't invoke the ASA’s wrath.