FKA Twig’s new “Eusexua” era has embarked and in usual twigs fashion, it’s strange, fresh, and highly fascinating. In this new era, Twigs has coined the new term of Eusexua, which according to twigs is “ a practice / EUSEXUA is a state of being / EUSEXUA is the pinnacle of human experience”. 

In line with Caetlin Benson-Allott’s article “Going Gaga for Glitch: Digital Failure…”(2013); twigs employs this “glitch aesthetic” in much of her music and video direction/visuals. We see this in particular in her first music video offering from the Eusexua era with the glitched vocals, the choreography, and the highly stylized visuals of the music video. The opening of the music video features the instrumental/experimental part of her 3rd single from the album, “Drums of Death,” which features a very error-like and techno-like sound. With words overlapping, disordered instrumentation, sampling, and more to create a glitch-like symphony.

As the music video progresses, we see twigs and the other background dancers engage in an ever-evolving choreography, starting out in constricting work-appropriate wear to their underwear to finally a more animalistic and free form. For Twigs, the Eusexua era represents freedom, healing, and euphoria. According to the Standard, after twigs’ past relationships and the traumas that have come after them, she is finally in a place of peace and happiness where she fully expresses herself and is not chained down by those dark moments. Overall, the music video is highly stylized, with both the set and the dancers changing and evolving from a more familiar corporate aesthetic to a more ethereal and dream-like state.

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Bibliography

Benson-Allott, Caetlin, ‘Going Gaga for Glitch: Digital Failure @nd Feminist Spectacle in Twenty-F1rst Century Music Video’, in Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media, Oxford Handbooks (2013; online edn, Oxford Academic, 16 Dec. 2013), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199757640.013.003, accessed 29 Nov. 2024.

Bromley, Joe. “FKA Twigs: ‘I’ve Had to Learn How to Live in My Body Again.’” The Standard, Evening Standard, 26 Sept. 2024, http://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/fka-twigs-eusexua-album-learn-to-live-in-body-again-interview-b1184140.html.

TWIGS, FKA. “FKA TWIGS – EUSEXUA.” YouTube, YouTube, 13 Sept. 2024, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnGSVIZGkQo.