This FKA Twigs interview is a few days old, so I’m sorry for not getting to it earlier! I didn’t forget, I just wanted to cover other stuff instead. Which is too bad, because this piece is sort of interesting. As I keep saying, I like FKA Twigs and Robert Pattinson together. I think they’re lovely and interesting. But I do wonder about Twigs in general – she claims she’s not thirsty, even when there’s some evidence to the contrary. Not that I would blame her for wanting attention – she’s worked hard to get where she is, and even when she cops a ‘tude, I still find her interesting. You can read Twigs’ interview with The Guardian here. Some highlights:

She says she’s not a difficult interview: “I’m an artist, and I’m a bit weird, and I’m probably a bit eccentric. But that’s where it ends. I’m really good one-on-one.”

Performing on The Tonight Show: “I struggle with TV a little bit. You’re standing in a spot where other artists have stood a million times before. It’s hard to distinguish yourself. So much could have gone wrong. But I wanted a challenge. I’m at a stage where I want to find things really difficult. Because now, at this point in my career – it’s maybe where some artists sit back on their laurels. Sit back and believe the hype when you haven’t actually done anything yet.”

Is she really all hype? “Oh, I’m nothing. I’m nothing right now. I think it’s easy to sit in this trendy cafe, in a trendy little area of New York, and say ‘Ooh, I’m FKA Twigs’. But outside of these four blocks, does anybody really give a sh-t? Probably not. I’m well aware if I walk down one street in New York, I’ll hear people say: ‘Oh my gad!’ And if I walk down another street: nothing. And those streets are blocks apart from each other. I’m appealing to people who want something different. But the world, on the whole, doesn’t really embrace different things. Not on the whole.”

Dealing with racist trolls who hate her because she’s with Sparkles: “Obviously I know if you’re putting yourself out there, saying, ‘Hey! Listen to my music!’, with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. ‘I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.’ Fine: don’t care. That’s the great thing about art, it’s not for everyone. But when it comes to racism, really? In this day and age? Pick that?”

Dealing with the paparazzi: “That side of my life [the paparazzi] is nothing to do with me. That’s, like… That is the… side of life of the man that I love. And… when that started happening I had to… Because that is the opposite of who I am as a person, and it was weird… Then I had to sit back and have a conversation with myself and I had to say: that is something really horrible. No, not horrible, I don’t find it horrible, it’s something that’s very challenging. I look uncomfortable because I am uncomfortable. But then it’s, like, is this person in my life worth that? And he is, without question. Do you know what I mean? In comparison to how happy I am. And how I feel with him. It’s 100% worth it. Does that make sense?”

Dancing in the video for Jessie J’s Price Tag: “I f–king hated it. Do you think I want to be dressed up as a puppet? As a doll, waving? No. But I was paying my dues. I’m sure Jessie had to do rubbish jobs as well before she was where she is now. I was a tiny cog in her wheel. As I’m sure at some point she was a tiny cog in someone else’s wheel.”

[From The Guardian]

Her answer about the Jessie J video is really well-formed – go back and read that. This girl is clever! She managed to say she hated it, she found the “job” questionable and she still managed to defend Jessie J and make it sound like she has no problem with Jessie.

As for the stuff about Sparkles… she calls him “the man that I love.” WHOA. Now I really want to know more about them together. Did he say he loved her first? Did she just drop that love-bomb on him in the interview? Has she met his parents? Are they living together?! Oh, in the interview she says she’s decorating her new London apartment, so she has her own place. But I’m pretty sure she lives with Rob when they’re in LA. Maybe they’ll just do the LA-NYC-London thing for a while. Sigh… young, hipster love.

Here’s her Tonight Show performance from a month ago:

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