FKA Twigs Deconstructs the Private Show
<em>Magdalene</em>, the avant-garde pop star’s triumphant second album, pairs tenderness and noise.
by Spencer Kornhaber
Nov 08, 2019
3 minutes
On last week, the singer FKA Twigs made use of a new kind of stage. She began singing her ballad “Cellophane” while sitting on top of a piano. Her pose was a crumpled one, with the glorious ruffles of her gown—medieval in shape, but more Lil Nas X–like with its bandana-print pattern—splayed about her. Midway through the song, Twigs got up and walked down a catwalk-like extension down past the piano’s edge. A stripper’s pole waited at the end, and she jumped up on it to execute an elegant in-air ballet.
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