T wigs was born Tahliah Debrett Barnett in 1988, in Cheltenham, to an English/Spanish mother and a Jamaican father. But, guess what? Life’s not fair,” she asserts, without stopping for air.
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“If the colour of my skin means that I have to try harder, you know what, I don’t care.
Darker-skinned Black women face much more bias than those of lighter shades, but twigs also feels she has to be above average and epitomise excellence. It can be extremely tough for Black women to thrive in the music industry. She’s dressed more casually for our chat, wearing a light-coloured sweater and some jewellery, but she still looks offbeat. It’s hard to find a picture of twigs that doesn’t look as if she’s just walked off the runway. She has talked in the past about the pressure to be 10 times better than her white peers in order to stand out that she could never get away with just standing up and singing in front of a microphone and “strumming a couple of cute chords on a guitar … I have to be pole dancing, upside down, swinging a sword, directing, producing.” Even fashion-wise, she rarely slacks. “I don’t know if that will change as I get older or if I start a family, but at the moment, my destiny and my purpose is to rise to the challenge.” “I’ve always put a lot of pressure on myself,” she says. She tells me that she embraces her furious schedule. Her hair is twisted into bright blond locs and a big ring light illuminates her face with a soft glow as she sips a cup of coffee.
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The room is professional and characterless, but this bland setting only makes twigs seem more majestic. It’s a cold Monday afternoon and we’re sitting in her PR’s office in Mayfair. When talking passionately, she gesticulates with her hands and shifts her body up and down. Her body language bounces between still and animated. When we do sit down together, her gaze is sturdy, an intense, curious type of eye contact. ‘If the colour of my skin means I have to try harder, I’ll do it,’ says twigs. A few hours before we’re scheduled to meet, I’m told that I should prepare to travel in a car with her as she might need to go to the studio mid-conversation. She won NME’s Godlike Genius award for 2022, and put on a theatrical performance at the ceremony earlier this month, wearing a huge silvery alien-butterfly outfit with wings. Despite a rich discography, a Grammy nomination and a British Fashion award under her belt, twigs still seems to be grafting just as much as someone who is starting out. When twigs first emerged, her celestial vocals and conceptual productions saw her compared to Tricky, Kate Bush and Björk. “It made me think in different ways, which made me make different music, which made me grow as an artist.” Her latest project, a mixtape of party songs titled Caprisongs, was created with good vibes in mind, and made during lockdown, an experience that was both challenging and liberating. Still, twigs has always come out fighting. She was racially abused by Twilight fans while she was dating Robert Pattinson she has suffered with fibroids and in December 2020 she filed a lawsuit against her ex-partner Shia LaBeouf, accusing the actor of physical, emotional and mental abuse that left her with PTSD.
Since then, she’s released several acclaimed albums and is considered a trailblazer in pop, R&B and Afrofuturism.īut her journey hasn’t been all art and reverence. In 2014 the New Yorker magazine said that she “dresses like a high-fashion model from antiquity, but her songs promise the very contemporary pleasures of texture and emotional immediacy”. Twigs has had a spellbinding career, exploding on to the pop scene a decade ago with operatic vocal arrangements, conceptual videos and futuristic instrumentals. “I practise and I practise and I practise. She can afford private lessons now, but when she started out as a fresh-faced back-up dancer, YouTube tutorials and group dance classes helped her to perfect her craft. It might be hard to believe that anybody could do the splits down a pole or wield a sword, Wushu-style, the way twigs has done without possessing some divine powers, but it’s all in the training. “I don’t think I was born with anything more than the rest of the world,” says the 34-year-old singer-songwriter. F KA twigs isn’t special, she says, she just rehearses a lot.
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