![]() And yet, Barnett’s music frequently makes use of the language and iconography of one of the world’s oldest institutions: Christianity. ![]() She thinks her music is more punk than R&B. The ballet school dropout often talks freely in interviews (and her music) about her terrible past as a backup dancer in mainstream pop music videos. Similar themes and sounds echo through the ghostly, choir-like, Puritanical mantra of the same album's “Preface,” on which she repeats “I love another, and thus I hate myself” – a line from the 16th-century Thomas Wyatt sonnet “I Find No Peace” – over and over in layered vocal tracks, making her singular voice into that of many.įKA twigs isn’t one to assign herself to any institution. I believe that being a good and kind person is some sort of higher energy within myself.” The song plays like a Gregorian chant as Barnett sings of devoting a lifetime of love to her subject. “In my mind, eternal darkness, seemed like it was true,” she sings on LP1’s “Closer.” “My savior knew / I was weary, I was sleepy, but you held me through.” In one 2014 interview, twigs said the song is about building a relationship with a better version of herself, but also about building a better relationship with God: “Even if you’re not religious, if you don’t believe in God or you haven’t worked out what you believe in quite yet. And while she's rarely addressed her religious preferences since becoming famous, her music and aesthetics frequently reflect a sort of ambiguous spiritual devotion. As a teen in Gloucestershire, England, FKA twigs began her musical career singing hymns in her Catholic high school's choir and writing music at a local youth center studio.
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