FKA Twigs' sonic ode to dance floor transcendence
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the summer of 2022, musician, dancer and actor FKA Twigs found transcendence on a Prague dance floor. Twigs—born Tahliah Debrett Barnett—was in the Czech capital to film for a remake of 1994 cult superhero film The Crow.
But when she wasn’t on set, the avant-pop starlet took advantage of the relative anonymity of Prague to explore the city’s underground techno scene. She spent her weekends at raves and free parties in old Eastern bloc warehouses, marvelling at the communal alchemy of a room full of sweaty bodies moving in time. In a toilet stall on one of those club nights, she scrawled a line on the back of her hand: “This room of fools, we make something together." Twigs would coin a new word to describe that certain “something"—eusexua, a portmanteau of “sex" and “euphoria".
More than just a feeling, eusexua is a philosophy, a practice, a state of being and a movement all rolled into one. In one interview, she described it as the joy you feel when “you’re kissing a stranger, or you’re just about to have an orgasm, or you’re just on the precipice of a brilliant idea." In other words, it’s pre-nut clarity—the sudden, stark awareness of impending bliss. Twigs chases that taste of the ineffable all over Eusexua, her third-full length album.
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