In an exclusive interview with Vogue, FKAtwigs explains the cultural history that informs her latest video with 0800Shygirl.
we first see her through the grainy murk of a ’90s camcorder, straddling a motorbike emblazoned with a graffitiedlogo. Cut with black-and-white archival footage from dancehall clubs and featuring a guest verse from the UK’s buzziest garage-grime rap sensation Shygirl, “Papi Bones” is an infectiously joyous window into an oft-overlooked corner of ’00s London life – complete with the airhorns you might have found on a mix you bootlegged off Limewire.
While Twigs first came to prominence for her moody expressions of loss and longing, all filtered through the gorgeously glitchy sonic textures that quickly became her signature – first on her buzzy breakout EPs, one of which was co-produced with Arca, and then on her Grammy-nominatedshe quickly came to be identified as a once-in-a-generation talent in the vein of Björk or Kate Bush, capable of building entire worlds encompassing everything from sound to visuals to movement.
The endless months of lockdown, in which Twigs spent much of her time meditating on how her upbringing shaped who she is today, also informed the record’s callbacks to the sounds of her childhood. “I think we were all feeling very reflective during that time, right?” Twigs says. “I am a Black British woman, and that has informed everything in me, from my personality to my morals, to the way that I see the world – and especially as I’m getting older, it comes up a lot, even in my relationships.
While she also recalls the code-switching required to attend a private Catholic school on a scholarship as a teenager – and then again to enter the music industry as a young woman who first got her start as a back-up dancer – as she describes it, it just felt like the right time to let her West Indian roots fully inform a musical project. “I feel the most comfortable in that community, because that’s who I am,” she adds. “It’s in my blood, and I just understand it on a spiritual level.
Two of Twigs’s primary sources of inspiration for the “Papi Bones” visuals were the Instagram archive accounts
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