FKA TWIGS - HOME WITH YOU

“The more you have the more that people want from you”

A single intrusive thought can pursue you into a downward spiral until outside sounds seem to reach you from underwater. FKA twigs captures the plummet into self-consciousness on “home with you,” the third single from her upcoming album MAGDALENE. Alternating beat-heavy, almost spoken-word verses with swelling piano balladry, the song hovers between the cavernous ache of “Cellophane” and the thrumming heat of “holy terrain.” It illustrates the moments of catastrophic lucidity that can break down confidence in an instant.

The first verse calls back to the mechanical production of twigs’ 2015 EP M3LL155X. Her distorted voice releases a trembling wave of anger: “The more you have the more that people want from you/The more you burn away the more that people earn from you/The more you pull away the more that they depend on you.” With her first accusatory, “I didn’t know that you were lonely,” the song morphs, recreating the feeling of having the wind knocked out of you. She recovers her resolve for a moment, then falters again (“Call me late at night/And I’ll be running home to you”), giving herself over to her feelings of guilt. Her voice combined with strings, she confesses in the final line: “I never told you I was lonely too.” In the video, that admission accompanies a scene of twigs pulling her younger self from the depths of a well. The image expands the bounds of her grief. Having laid herself bare to another, she’s now prepared to mend the fractures within herself.

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